Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Egypt, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design systems that span multiple teams, anticipating future use cases and structuring them to minimize the cost of change instead of merely optimizing for the current sprint.

• Propel the convergence of shared services across various business units, actively opposing fork-and-diverge situations and minimizing drift.

• Establish standards for code quality, testing, and review, including conventions that ensure safe AI-assisted development at speed.

• Lead complex investigations across different domains and mentor others in systematic debugging techniques.

• Own the observability for the domain and foster a culture of observability across teams utilizing operational and business metrics.

• Conduct secure design reviews and collaborate with security teams to implement security strategies, including the proper handling of secrets and PII as per policy.

• Collaborate with fraud and risk stakeholders to integrate controls within the domain while balancing fraud loss, chargeback exposure, and customer friction.

• Ensure epics and cross-team dependencies are clearly defined, comprehensible, and resolvable without teams waiting on one another; promote a short cycle time.

• Mentor across teams, facilitate cross-team decision-making, and guide engineering efforts based on strategic objectives while contributing to the organization-wide engineering strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in building and operating production software, demonstrating ownership of architecture that transcends multiple teams and endures beyond the organizational structure it was created under.

• Extensive experience in at least one of DZ's technology stacks (TypeScript, Go, C#) with the capability to reason effectively across all of them, along with solid expertise in Postgres and AWS.

• Proven track record of consolidating forked or duplicated services, or of establishing standards adopted by other teams due to their quality rather than mandates.

• A default lens of security and fraud awareness: fluency in OWASP, innate secure design instincts, and an understanding of potential abuse in payments and digital fulfillment contexts.

• Ability to influence without authority: adept at building relationships across teams, encouraging constructive disagreement, and guiding a group of strong engineers to a consensus they will genuinely support.

• Sound judgment regarding cost and value, including recognizing where AI implementation genuinely saves time versus where it may introduce risks that could have future costs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate opportunity to create a substantial impact within a rapidly growing 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 more.