As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will liaise with other backend and frontend engineers within your product stream, the QA team, the design team, and your Tech Team Leads. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for advancing our development stack and ensuring scale as we grow to millions of monthly active users across many countries.
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In this role, you will:
- Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the company code base and technologies stack within weeks;
- Lead planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out/roll-back strategies for releases.
- Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work;
- Create unit tests in accordance with our established standards to cover assigned work;
- Write and maintain exemplary code following the company’s programming practices;
- Actively contribute to post-release maintenance issues;
- Develop elegant solutions for complex problems;
- Pioneer reliability and efficiency of our current code base, platforms and/or core systems;
- Impact the direction and scope of the company’s technical vision within your stream;
- Work in a mentoring capacity within a peer-programming environment and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale;
- Code review all major pull requests, defining programming standards and providing constructive feedback.
- Design and deliver multiple REST-based APIs and have previous exposure to Service Oriented Architecture;
- Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end;
- Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within your stream;
- Liaise with the other back end engineers within your product stream, the QA team, design team and your Tech Team Lead;
- Liaise with other tech teams to share innovations from your stream.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience in either Python, Java, or C++
- 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;
- 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.);
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills; This is an absolute must, we have heated debates around complicated subjects, and you will be expected to lead conversations around them.
Benefits
- A fast-paced, high-performing team.
- Multicultural environment with over 50 different nationalities
- Competitive Tax-free Salary
- Comprehensive Health Insurance
- Annual Air Ticket Allowance
- Employee discounts at multiple vendors across the emirates
- Rewards & Recognitions
- Learning & Development
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
