Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Karachi Data employs 770 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. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our team. This is a remote role. 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan.

JOB DUTIES

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• 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.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Compensation: PKR 220,000-PKR 270,000 a month

BENEFITS

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

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Start: Flexible.

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