Middle Easts leading digital marketplace platform for enabling consumers to buy or rent a property.
Our consumers are the millions of people searching online for a home, and our paying clients are the real estate agents and property developers that list and manage their properties using our web applications, mobile apps and CRM solutions.
Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, the company has over 600 employees across the UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Position SummaryA mid-level Backend Developer to join our team and work on developing and maintaining the backend systems that power our software products. You will be working with Go, Kubernetes, AWS, and other technologies to build robust and scalable systems. This is a hands-on role that will involve developing or migrating products primarily using Go, including supporting our Shift Left approach for taking ownership of code quality and test case documentation to drive continuous software quality KPIs.Key Responsibilities
Design, build, test and maintain backend systems and services
Optimise APIs for performance
Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation
Troubleshoot and debug systems and services
Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing
Desired Qualifications and Experience
3+ years of working experience as a backend engineer.
Strong proficiency in Go
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
Experience developing RESTful APIs
Knowledge of AWS services (ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, Eventbridge, S3 etc.)
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or other SQL/NoSQL databases
Experience with caching technologies like Redis or Memcached
Experience with GIT version control
Knowledge of TDD, BDD, DDD practices and principles
Other Preferred Capabilities
Working knowledge of gRPC, JSON Schema, etc.
Familiarity with messaging queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka or SQS
Knowledge of domain-driven design patterns
Understanding of distributed systems
Working experience with one or more of the following: Elasticsearch, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached
Experience with operating and monitoring backend systems