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.

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