Senior Python Engineer Job In Dubai

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;

Liaise 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

6+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience 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 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