Principal Software Engineer - Python/Django

At Dubizzle Labs, we are looking to further expand our Pakistan engineering office of already 300+. We are most interested in bringing on board colleagues who love to learn, perform, and teach. We are building a high-quality engineering environment with a super focus on delivering value to customers. Your primary responsibility would be to build world-class suite products to support the hyper-growth of our businesses in 10 countries. In this role, you will:

• 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.

• 4+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience; majorly in python/django
• 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
• 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.