Software Developer

Sheikh Data employs 220 people across engineering hubs in Karachi and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Job summary

Sheikh Data has an opening for a Software Developer. Our Identity team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote position. Most of the team is in Karachi, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• 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
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Nice to have

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

Pay: PKR 210,000 - PKR 260,000 a month

Perks and benefits

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Life insurance
• Fuel allowance
• Two bonuses a year

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sheikh Data (Pvt.) Ltd..