Senior Full Stack Web Developer

About Us

• Sozie is a London, UK headquartered Company that is rapidly growing with market defining clients in Europe and the US, including Adidas and Target.
• We are building the leading global platform used by retailers to connect in-store employees to e-commerce for personalized online shopping experiences.
• Our leadership and sales teams are based in London, UK and Toronto, Canada. Our tech and ops teams are based in Lahore, Pakistan. 

The Opportunity for You

• As our Lead Web Developer, you will be a part of our highly-skilled team of developers in Lahore.
• We are an agile team and work in a collaborative environment where continuous learning opportunities and challenging work is a constant.
• You will employ agile development practices including test and deployment automation as well as continuous integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality.
• In this role, you will be leading the design, implementation, and roll-out of our client facing web application.
• The Sozie Web App is used by our retail clients for access to the Sozie platform which connects e-commerce to in-store employees.
• You will work closely with the CTO and senior backend developer and ultimately report directly to the CEO.
• It will be your responsibility to translate complex ideas, needs, and goals into simple, beautiful user-friendly solutions that we will be proud to put in front of our clients and which will delight them!

What You Will Do

• Own all aspects of our client facing web application

• Define and design the frontend in collaboration in conjunction with the product manager

• Collaborate with our CTO and senior backend developer for the backend logic of the web app

• Define roadmap and sprint planning in conjunction with the the product manager

• Take on responsibility for the backend of the web-app in a short period of time

• Collaborate with management to define, design, and apply new features

• Communicate directly and daily with leadership in product development meetings

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Implement and oversee a QA process for debugging and improving performance

• Grow at a rapid rate with our Company

Requirements

Technical Requirements

• Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a top University 

• You are very strong at frontend CSS, HTML, SASS, LESS, JavaScript, React

• You are strong and seeking more experience at backend: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server,

• You are experienced in GIT

• You ideally have an understanding of AWS services / or understand overall solutions architecture and how development activities fit into this

• You have at least 5 years of industry experience as a software engineer.

• Ideally you have worked as a senior software engineer, tech lead or architect as this background will give you greater opportunity growth and responsibility in the Company

• You have strong data structures and algorithms concepts

• Build efficient, reusable well-designed and high-quality code

Product Building Requirements

• Strong UX considerations

• You can function effectively and be valuable to the Company without too much hand-holding and micromanagement (ex. you don’t need detailed JIRA tickets written out for you)

• You are capable of discussing your business objectives and proposing a work roadmap and specific tasks for approval

• You are an extremely proactive communicator, who understands the challenges of remote work and the need to over-communicate to offset those challenges

• You are good at feature planning and estimation. You can discuss business priorities and propose sensible software/business tradeoffs that are in line with priorities.

• Test-oriented development mindset

• Ability to work independently

• Be familiar with delivering outcomes under conditions of uncertainty

• Curious, collaborative, humble and are a Doer

Communication Skills

• You are a fluent English communicator, and you will be able to communicate independently and effectively over email and calls with engineering managers at our clients

• Excellent written communication and documentation skills in English

• Excellent verbal communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions

• We value people who communicate directly, simply, honestly and clearly

Application Deadline

We are interviewing candidates on a rolling basis. It is advantageous to apply early.