Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Gouna, Egypt

**Work with the world’s smartest in-store media network**

**The problem we’re solving**

Digital retailers use data to study shoppers’ online behavior, predict their needs, and eliminate any friction points in the decision-making process. As a result, they provide shopping journeys that are very low on cognitive stress and therefore high on conversions/revenue. The problem is that digital-born retailers are moving to the offline world to increase their market share, and physical retailers are lacking the technology to compete with the complex data models digital ones have.

**Our Vision**

Our vision is to make physical spaces more intelligent and engaging than digital ones.

**Our Mission**

Our mission is to harness the power of data by instantly and intelligently delivering highly engaging personalized and profitable in-store experiences.

**Our Values**
- Proactive: We don’t wait to be told what to do.
- Rationale: We execute on well-researched ideas.
- Resilient: We simply don’t give up and are determined to succeed.
- Diverse: Our differences make us stronger as a group and we love that.
- Social: We work hard and take time to celebrate success.

**Job Information**
- **Job Title**:Senior Backend Engineer
- **Department**: Product
- **Job Location**: Gouna, Red Sea, Egypt
- **Employment Type**: Full Time
- **Reports To**:Backend Team Lead
- **Subordinates**: N/A

**Job Purpose**

**Responsibilities**:

- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
- Collaborate with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
- Record data and report it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership
- Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members
- Take lead on projects, as needed
- Work on an Agile team to develop, test, deploy, and maintain, while collaborating with team members on product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture
- Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Review and debug code
- Perform validation and verification testing
- Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products
- Document development phases and monitor systems
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use

**KPIs**:

- SMART technical tasks
- Task sizing accuracy
- Delivery plan clarity
- Code bugs per sprint
- Delayed deliverables per sprint
- Slipped deliverables per sprint
- Design Improvements
- Number of PoC
- Number of suggestions
- Number of unblocked issues
- Number of courses taken

**Work Environment**

A Senior Backend Engineer usually works in an office setting, has normal working hours, with a clean and well-lit office environment. Though they tend to work in a rather casual setting, the environment overall is focused, dynamic and driven.

**Experience**
- 4+ years experience in the software development field
- Extensive knowledge of Agile environment
- Extensive knowledge of Software development life cycle
- Expertise in clean code standards, encapsulation, isolation of responsibility standards, and other coding standards
- Expertise on building scalable solutions
- Familiarity with distributed systems
- Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes
- Experience in producing and maintaining technical documentation

**Education, Certifications, and Training**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information System, or any other related field

**Language Skills**
- Excellent level in the English language (Writing, Speaking, Reading, Listening)

**Technical Skills**
- Advanced experience with programming languages like NodeJs, Java, Go and Python
- Working experience with agile teams and agile best practices
- Familiarity with various operating systems
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Advanced experience with at least one cloud-based service provider (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Strong familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)

**Competencies**
- Communication
- Integrity
- Attention to detail
- Agility
- Collaboration
- Self-development
- Initiative
- Leadership and mentorship