Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Dubizzle Labs is expanding its Pakistan office, currently home to over 400 talented professionals. We seek passionate individuals who thrive on learning, performing, and sharing knowledge. Our goal is to cultivate a high-quality engineering environment focused on delivering exceptional value to customers. As part of our team, you will be responsible for building world-class products that support the rapid growth of our business across 10 countries.

Key Responsibilities

- Quickly develop a deep understanding of the Dubizzle codebase and technology stack within the first few weeks.
- Lead planning sessions for new product features, including detailed rollout and rollback strategies.
- Stay current with industry trends and integrate relevant innovations into your daily work.
- Write unit tests adhering to established standards to ensure code quality.
- Produce and maintain clean, exemplary code following Dubizzle’s programming practices.
- Participate actively in post-release maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Design elegant solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Enhance the reliability and efficiency of existing codebases, platforms, and core systems.
- Influence the technical vision and direction within your area of expertise.
- Mentor peers in a collaborative programming environment, providing guidance on tasks of varying complexity.
- Conduct thorough code reviews for major pull requests, establish programming standards, and offer constructive feedback.
- Design and deliver multiple RESTful APIs with experience in Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Evaluate and push back on incomplete or unclear requirements.
- Manage the entire software development lifecycle from conception to deployment.
- Lead product planning meetings and architect scalable solutions within your stream.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in back-end software engineering, with a strong preference for Python.
- Experience with cloud-hosted infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Proven track record working on high-traffic, large-scale web products.
- Solid understanding of web infrastructure, distributed systems, SOA, performance analysis, and search infrastructure.
- Experience surviving and learning from high-pressure “death march” projects.
- Expertise in design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security, and data persistence.
- Mastery of caching strategies and technologies like memcached.
- Good knowledge of build process management and continuous integration pipelines.
- Strong command of testing methodologies including unit, component, and integration tests.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Join a fast-paced, high-performing team driven by innovation and excellence.
- Work in a multicultural environment representing over 50 nationalities.
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
- Rewards and recognition programs to celebrate your achievements.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

Dubizzle Labs is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to contribute to our dynamic and supportive workplace.