Software Developer, Remote

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

About the role

We are adding a Software Developer, Remote to our Payments team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This role is fully remote within Pakistan. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

Qualifications

• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Rate: PKR 190,000-PKR 235,000 pcm

What you get

• Flexible schedule

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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