Senior Software Engineer - Backend

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) you will liaises with the other backend and frontend engineers within your product stream, the QA team, the design team and your Tech Team Leads. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for advancing our development stack and ensuring scale as we grow to millions of monthly active users across many 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. **Requirements** * 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.