Senior Cloud Application Developer

About Contour

Contour Software has grown from a dozen people to over 2,000 staff across 3 cities, in less than 14 years.
 

As a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., we are proud to be part of a global enterprise software conglomerate that has grown to become one of the top 10 software companies in the world, with employees and customers in 100+ countries. With a broad-based and ever-growing portfolio of market-leading, vertical-market enterprise solutions covering more than 100 industry domains in predominantly mature markets, CSI's recipe creates the perfect environment for professionals to build fulfilling, long-term careers.
 

What started as an R&D & Accounting back-office, has progressed into a full-service Global Centre serving all functions and departments, at the divisional as well as operating group/corporate level. Today Contour employees, located in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad, are serving CSI divisions located in time zones spanning the globe, from Sydney to Vancouver. With the global growth of Constellation as the wind in our sails, we are only just getting started

The Division:
Constellation1, a part of Constellation Real Estate Group, is a premier provider of industry-leading real estate marketing solutions. We specialize in developing cutting-edge real estate websites, mobile technologies, interactive voice response systems, and marketing services tailored to home builders. As part of our commitment to delivering exceptional services, we are looking for two motivated and dynamic Support Specialists to join our team in Islamabad.

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The Position:

A Sr. Cloud Engineer is a full-stack engineer capable of architecting, designing, and implementing key features and components in our AWS mission-critical platform by building micro-services and designing serverless applications in AWS to support our real estate data business.
As a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable cloud solutions. You will work closely with team members across several countries and ensure our cloud environments are highly available, efficient, and secure.

Responsibilities:

• Help oversee architecture of real estate data pipeline.

• Develop pipeline components that are scalable, reliable and efficient.

• Lead implementation of new features or products.

• Perform Project and Team lead duties as needed for new core features.

• Continual oversight of the overall architecture ensuring the overall system doesn't erode or become overly complex as time passes and features are added.

• Fixing bugs and hardening existing code.

• Code reviews, mentoring and coaching teammates to understand and implement AWS best practices in line with an "AWS Well-Architected Framework".

• Provide feedback and constructive critiques resulting in optimum performance and system design.

• Continual tracking of component and overall system performance by applying and automating application and performance best practice testing, monitoring and reporting.

• Provide input and recommendations on managing costs within our AWS infrastructure at micro and macro levels.

Job Details
From a technical perspective, this role requires working with many of the major AWS offerings including services, such as Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, Dynamo, Scaling EC2 and CloudWatch as examples. An understanding of Serverless design patterns and how and when to implement auto-scaling to ensure optimal throughput is essential.
Additionally, at times this role will require someone to lead a project and small team temporarily for the sake of building or enhancing a particular product or feature. This means working on a new project from initiation, design, architecture, planning, estimating, tracking, and helping others on the team see the vision and develop in unison as a cohesive team that delivers incremental features on time.

Required Skills:

• Candidate must have experience working with real estate data and an in-depth knowledge of RESO transport and data dictionary standards.

• 7+ years of professional coding experience with 5 years in cloud services.

• Experience in major AWS event-driven, compute and database solutions, including but not limited to:
o Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, Dynamo, OpenSearch, Aurora and/or RDS (candidates with experience in both NoSQL and relational are preferred)

• AWS Certifications preferred, but not required.

• Experience developing microservices in AWS.

• Some C#/.Net Framework experience is required.

• Experience creating reporting and alerting tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Cloudwatch, Quicksight is welcome

Exciting Benefits we offer:

• Market-leading Salary

• Medical Coverage – Self & Dependents

• Parents Medical Coverage

• Provident Fund

• Employee Performance-based bonuses

• Home Internet Subsidy

• Conveyance Allowance

• Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]

• Life Benefit

• Child Care Facility

• Company Provided Lunch/Dinner

• Professional Development Budget

• Recreational area for in-house games

• Sporadic On-shore training opportunities

• Friendly work environment

• Leave Encashment

Disclaimer: At Contour, we attribute our success to the unique contributions of our diverse staff. We're committed to fostering a culture of respect that thrives on the varied perspectives and experiences of all individuals we recruit, employ, promote, and compensate. Since day one, we've adhered to a policy that champions a work environment honoring the worth and dignity of each person while being free from all forms of employment discrimination.

In our continuous effort to promote inclusivity, we extend our commitment to individuals with special needs by providing reasonable accommodations. We actively encourage qualified individuals with special needs to apply for the various openings within our company. Should you require assistance in completing the application process or have any inquiries regarding special facilities, please do not hesitate to contact our HR team. Your unique talents and abilities are welcomed and valued here.