Senior Backend Developer

at  Property Finder

Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005 as a magazine (Al Bab World), Property Finder today is a single technology platform and brand across multiple countries in the MENA region. We offer the most advanced tools and best-in-class user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers. Property Finder’s most recent valuation secures our status among the Middle East’s emerging unicorns, affirming a growth-oriented identity.
Over the years, we’ve expanded our operations to Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and secured a strategic shareholding in Hepsiemlak, the leading property portal in Turkey. With over 600+ dedicated people in 6 regional offices, we facilitate more than 14 million monthly visits across our platforms, solidifying our position as a regional powerhouse in the proptech space.
As the pioneering portal for homeseekers in the region, we are on a mission to motivate and inspire people to live the life they deserve.
We are backed by leading investors such as General Atlantic famous for having invested in growth companies such as , Uber, Alibaba and AirBnB to name a few. With the most recent funding round, the Propertyfinder Group is one of the fastest growing companies in the region.

SUMMARY

We are looking for incredibly talented Senior Backend Developers to join our development team here at Property Finder. We believe in nurturing your talent and we encourage creativity and autonomy where you are free to grow and develop your career in a fun, forward thinking and positive environment.
As a company, we are very performance oriented and test the performance of all code and database queries, but we always ensure that this does not affect code quality and legibility. We take the time to refactor and rework code when necessary, but we always have the business goals in mind when doing this.
We expect our developers to be passionate about new technologies and think of creative ways that they could benefit our business. We want our developers to stay current with changes in technologies such as Go, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, and other AWS services like AWS Step Functions to build tailored solutions using cloud native technologies.
We are big proponents of Agile development methods with small cross-functional teams fully empowered to take an idea from inception and to be able to deliver it fully tested into production with minimal outside disruptions. Because of this you will need to be able to work well with others in your team and be able to contribute meaningful ideas on how to best achieve your objectives and key results.

REQUIREMENTS

• Very strong Object Oriented Programming and design pattern skills
• Experience working with backend languages i.e., Java, C#, Python, Golang
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Very comfortable working with MySQL / DynamoDB
• REST web services
• Git / Github

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Computer Science (or similar) education
• Serverless Framework
• Golang
• ElasticSearch
• Comfortable working with testing frameworks
• Message Queuing / RabbitMQ
• Memcached or Redis
• DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Step Functions

• In a large tech department, divided in smaller teams, you’ll be in charge of developing new features, as well as refactoring existing projects.
• You need to be able to write clean and scalable code.
• You’ll need to be able to participate in brainstorming sessions and to bring your opinion and experience to the table.