Senior Software Engineer

Expertizo is a creative agency based in Karachi. We believe in building strong relationships with our clients to help them succeed and create value at every stage. We foster a work environment that enables open communication and encourages feedback to aid our learning and growth. Honoring commitments is something we hold in high regard and we strive to demonstrate integrity in our work ethics and dealings with employees and clients.

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will liaise 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 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 Expertizo's programming practices;
• Actively contribute to 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 Expertizo'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;
• Liaise with the other backend 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

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field;
• 3-5 years of professional back-end software engineering experience; Nodejs preferred;
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred;
• Experience in working with databases such as MySQL or MongoDB;
• 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.