Senior Software Engineer – Backend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Egypt, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant features and services within the team's domain, designing them using established patterns for iterative, autonomous development and future scalability.

• Implement bounded contexts to minimize cross-service dependencies, ensuring that failures remain contained.

• Deliver production-ready, self-documenting code while establishing standards for AI-assisted development.

• Utilize Test-Driven Development (TDD) and mocks as necessary, refactor for testability, and guarantee that tested code is merged into the main branch.

• Troubleshoot issues within services and across service boundaries, enhance monitoring, and leverage operational and business metrics for stability and performance.

• Actively engage in the team's on-call duties.

• Identify vulnerabilities, apply secure defaults regarding authentication, input validation, and data management, and design systems to prevent abuse.

• Communicate any blockers, delays, and cost overruns promptly; resolve dependencies and foster continuous improvements.

• Mentor team members, build support redundancy, and maintain runbooks and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in building production software, with extensive ownership of services in a live, revenue-generating system.

• Strong expertise in at least one of DZ's technology stacks (TypeScript, Go, C#), along with solid knowledge of Postgres and AWS, and an eagerness to become proficient in others.

• Profound understanding of a domain you have worked in for an extended period: awareness of the services, their interactions, and the data flow between them, not just the components you developed.

• A default security and abuse perspective: solid grasp of OWASP principles, appropriate handling of secrets and sensitive information, and awareness of payment-surface threats like card testing and credential management.

• The ability to evaluate cost versus value, including recognizing where AI can genuinely save time compared to situations where it might introduce later risks.

• Effective communication skills that resonate with both technical and non-technical audiences, a tendency to seek feedback as much as provide it, and comfort with open, respectful disagreements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate opportunity to make a large-scale impact on a high-growth business.

• Competitive compensation packages that are among the best in the market.

• Collaborate with top regional talent, including team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and others.