Senior Backend Engineer

IT & Network
Egypt 🇪🇬
October 2, 2023

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About Bosta
Launched in 2017, Bosta is an overnight delivery provider for E-commerce companies in Egypt & KSA. Leveraging technology to empower businesses is what we do best. Our goal is to disrupt the logistics industry by bringing technology and experience all together to provide a one-stop shop for delivery solutions. 
We rely on advanced technology to deliver orders to our customers in a fast way. Businesses can track and connect with couriers and follow up on their orders – all in one system.
About SLLR:
SLLR is a sister company to Bosta, the current logistics market leader in Egypt and delivery company. Launched in Egypt in May 2023 and a soft launch in KSA. It caters to the needs of micro, small, and medium-sized online stores, offering free website building, product catalog, inventory management, and direct shipping services. Sllr is simply a one-stop-shop solution for e-commerce businesses.
Our Engineering
For our customers, we care deeply about delivering amazing user experiences. Delivery can be a messy business, but our customers love our intuitive and easy-to-use software. For the internal teams, we write software to run every part of our business: Operations, CS, accounting, and Sales. As we scale, automation, data, and AI will enable our team to move faster and smarter.

​​Here’s what you’ll be doing at Bosta.

  • Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members via technical design sessions.
  • Collaborate with the front-end engineers in building, and shipping scalable APIs to be consumed by our client-facing solutions.
  • Build and maintain third-party API integrations, fetching, and processing of data.
  • Work with the product and design teams to discuss the requirements of the value teams (including business, marketing, sales, and logistics operations), understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into usable and scalable features.
  • Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice). Mentor and empower other engineers around you.
  • Develop and maintain high-performance and scalable backend systems that can handle high traffic volumes, while ensuring data integrity, security, and reliability.
  • Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of backend systems, and implement appropriate measures to ensure optimal system uptime and availability.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including non-technical team members, to ensure that they understand the technical decisions being made and how they will impact the product.
  • Drive innovation and contribute to the growth of our company vision by creating new products and collaborating closely with the product and design teams.

Who you are?

  • 3-5 years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields is preferred.
  • Excellent programming skills in JavaScript, Node.js, Express framework, and related technologies.
  • Experience managing NoSQL databases/search engines such as Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
  • Experience building and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with A/B testing and canary deployments.
  • Knowledge of GCP, AWS, or other similar cloud providers.
  • Knowledge of container technology (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Demonstrated expertise in managing a broad system with multiple integrated components.
  • Ability to jump into legacy code and understand it quickly.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent leadership skills.

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