Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Dubizzle Labs is expanding its Pakistan office, currently home to over 400 professionals, and is seeking passionate engineers who thrive on learning, performing, and sharing knowledge. The company is committed to building a high-quality engineering environment focused on delivering exceptional value to customers. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing world-class products that support the rapid growth of Dubizzle’s business across 10 countries.

Key Responsibilities

- Quickly gain a deep understanding of Dubizzle’s codebase and technology stack within the first few weeks.
- Lead planning sessions for new product features, including detailed strategies for release roll-outs and roll-backs.
- Stay updated with industry trends and incorporate relevant advancements into daily work.
- Develop unit tests that meet established standards to ensure code quality.
- Write and maintain clean, efficient, and exemplary code aligned with Dubizzle’s programming practices.
- Actively participate 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 team members in a peer-programming environment, providing guidance on tasks of varying complexity.
- Conduct thorough code reviews on major pull requests, establish programming standards, and offer constructive feedback.
- Design and deliver multiple RESTful APIs, with experience in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Evaluate and push back on incomplete or unclear requirements when necessary.
- Manage the entire software development lifecycle from conception to deployment.
- Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within your technical stream.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in back-end software engineering, with a strong preference for Python expertise.
- Experience working with cloud-hosted infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker is highly advantageous.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining high-traffic, large-scale web applications.
- Solid understanding of web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, and search infrastructure.
- Firsthand experience with high-pressure projects ("death marches") and insight into best practices to avoid common pitfalls.
- Strong grasp of design patterns, including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security, and data persistence.
- Expertise in caching mechanisms and strategies, including memcached.
- Knowledge of build process management and continuous integration workflows.
- Mastery of testing methodologies such as unit testing, component testing, and integration testing.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native technologies will be considered a plus.
- Join a fast-paced, high-performing team that values innovation and excellence.
- Work in a multicultural environment representing over 50 nationalities.
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
- Recognition programs to reward outstanding contributions.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

Dubizzle Labs is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive workplace for all employees.