Junior Software Engineer

About Pharaoh Digital

Most of our traffic is mobile, so the iOS and Android apps get as much attention as the website. Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership.

What this job is

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. You can work from home anywhere in Egypt. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

What you'll work on

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback

About you

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Preferred

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

Compensation and benefits

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• 13th month salary

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pharaoh Digital.