Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable API & Systems Lead

dubizzle; Lahore; On-site; PKR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Rewards & Recognitions

Learning & Development

Multicultural environment

Job summary

Dubizzle Labs in Pakistan is expanding its team to support hyper-growth across 10+ countries. We seek a seasoned backend engineer with deep Python expertise to build world-class suite products and lead architecture decisions.

You will mentor peers, design REST APIs, and own end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. Join a learning-driven, diverse engineering culture that values reliability, scalability, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience; Python preferred.
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred.
• Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker will earn you brownie points.
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products is preferred.
• Experience with web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure.
• Been on at least one death march and know exactly why some things are to be avoided.
• Strong understanding of design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security and persistence.
• Mastery of different caching layers and strategies including memcached.
• Good understanding of build process management and continuous integration.
• Mastery of testing methodologies (unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Hit the ground running - understand the code base and tech stack within weeks.
• Lead planning sessions around new features and release strategies.
• Research and apply industry trends as part of daily work.
• Create unit tests in accordance with established standards.
• Write and maintain exemplary code following dubizzle's practices.
• Mentor peers and provide guidance in a peer-programming environment.
• Code review major pull requests and define programming standards.
• Design and deliver REST APIs with exposure to SOA.
• Handle end-to-end software development life cycle.
• Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within streams.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Cloud infrastructure

SOA & distributed systems

Design patterns (async, queues, logs,,

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

Dubizzle Labs in Pakistan is expanding its team to support hyper-growth across 10+ countries. We seek a seasoned backend engineer with deep Python expertise to build world-class suite products and lead architecture decisions.

You will mentor peers, design REST APIs, and own end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. Join a learning-driven, diverse engineering culture that values reliability, scalability, and collaboration.