The Role

• 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 dubizzle’s programming practices;

• Actively contribute in 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 on the direction and scope of dubizzle’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 delivery of multiple REST based APIs and previous exposure to Service Oriented Architecture;

• Capacity to push back requirements when incomplete;

• 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 Team Lead;

• Liaise with other tech teams to share innovations from your stream.

What we need

• 6+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience in Python (Django)

• 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.)

• 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