Senior Architect/ Developer

Amazon.ae

Dubai, UAE

Ref: RP971-371

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Helpbit.com is an online on-demand services platform powered by SOUQ.com, the largest e-commerce marketplace in the middle east. Built on the same foundation and values of SOUQ.com, we see every employee as a strategic partner in our business. We are looking for young, insatiably curious and passionate individuals to grow in success.

Are you interested in making an immediate impact on work that matters?

Are you interested in inventing technology at the cutting edge of uber-like model for consumer services?

Are you intrigued by a billion-dollar company that is financially successful but feels like a start-up?

We are seeking a Sr. PHP Developer/Systems Architect to lead and own a variety of product development initiatives. Along with other responsibilities, there are three main areas of focus:

Sustain: Development, enhancement, and support of our existing product

Create: Design, architect, and build a completely new version of product

Integrate: Develop & Enhance APIs for internal & external consumption

JOB FUNCTIONS
• Responsible for system architecture, database design and backend development
• Incorporates existing code and reusable assets in the development of new components
• Develop Integrations with API-driven third-party systems
• Collaborate regularly with Product Manager and lead/mentor others in the development team, actively engage in peer code reviews
• Identify and perform periodic system performance and security optimizations
• Responsible for delivering accurate development timeline estimates by technical team
• Serve as a point of escalation & troubleshooting for all technical related issues

Requirements

• BS /or MS degree in Computer Science
• 6+ years of professional development experience with LAMP Stack
• 3+ years as a Team Lead leading technical projects and resources
• Strong in software engineering, including design of microservice architecture
• Expert-level PHP programming and working knowledge of at least one popular MVC framework (Yii, Laravel, Symfony)
• Strong API design skills with solid experience in designing and building RESTful web services
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and continuous integration concept
• Solid grasp of design patterns, SOLID & Clean code principles
• Experience with application performance profiling and performance optimization at scale
• Experience working with Cache layers and queuing tools (Redis/ElasticSearch/RabbitMQ/SQS), as well as non-relational data storage (MongoDB)
• Strong experience with Amazon stack
• Experience in common third-party APIs
• Experience with Enterprise scale systems (CRM, ERP, POS) development is big advantage
• Startup mentality is a must

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Bilingual (Arabic and English)
• Experience in an ecommerce platform

About the Company

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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Senior Architect salaries in UAE

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AED 23,500

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