
Staff Software Engineer - Backend
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Help establish standards for development teams and collaborate on initiatives with infrastructure, platform, and other software engineering teams
- Assist fellow teammates by conducting code reviews and pairing
- Leverage our tech stack: Primarily Ruby/Rails/Node.js/React/Postgres hosted on AWS and increasingly using Kubernetes and languages such as Java and Typescript, CircleCI for Continuous Integration, and a combination of ArgoCD and an in-house tool for CD.
- 8+ years experience in software engineering fundamentals, Test Driven Development and Design concepts (Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript, Java, Node.js or similar languages preferred)
- Professional experience with React, Node.js, Ruby/Ruby on Rails or Java is preferred
- Experience with working on Document Management systems
- Understanding the tradeoffs between short-term and long-term goals and balancing immediate needs with strategic initiatives
- Experience in working with software, platforms, and infrastructure at scale (we run thousands of hosts and have millions of users)
- Experience in building modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems at scale
- Experience working with a team on large initiatives with the ability to course-correct as needed
- Experience working with modern web development, including testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring