Senior Backend Engineer

This Senior Backend Engineer role focuses on advancing the dubizzle platform’s development stack, ensuring scale, and leading the quality of code. The role involves gathering requirements, leading planning sessions, researching trends, creating tests, contributing to maintenance, and mentoring other team members. The successful candidate will have expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies
• Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products
• Experience with web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure
• 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