Software Developer - Search

Our office is in a converted house near downtown Sharjah. We know our clients well, often three generations of the same family. Family owned and operated since 2007. Most staff have been with the firm for more than eight years.

Job summary:

The Software Developer - Search will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Our team is spread across 11 countries. Headquarters is in Sharjah. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties:

• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.

You'll need:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• 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.

Pay and benefits:

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual team retreat.
• Performance bonus.
• Paid parental leave.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Annual salary review.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Taylor Consultants, LLC.