Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the dubizzle 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 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
• Liaises 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

• 5+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience
• Python preferred
• 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.

Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker will earn you brownie points