At Dubizzle Labs, we are expanding our Pakistan engineering office of 500+ talented individuals. We are looking for colleagues who love to learn, perform, and teach. Our goal is to build a high-quality engineering culture with a strong focus on delivering value to customers.
As a Principal Full Stack Developer, your primary responsibility is to design, build, and maintain high-performing products and platform features that support the hyper-growth of our businesses across 10 countries.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications across multiple products
- Build scalable, secure, and reusable components and modules
- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices
- Optimize applications for speed, performance, and responsiveness
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications
- Collaborate closely with Product, UI/UX, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality features
- Write clean, modular, and testable code following best software development practices
- Design and maintain databases, schemas, migrations, and query optimizations
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain engineering standards
- Ensure cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility
- Deploy and manage applications in cloud environments, preferably AWS
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and propose improvements to the stack
Job Requirements
The Must-haves:
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including 3+ years in a principal, architect, or technical leadership role.
- Proficiency in one or more backend frameworks: Laravel, Node.js, python preferred
- Experience with front-end frameworks: mostly React.js, Next.js
- Strong experience with SQL databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Experience in building and integrating REST APIs
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and version control best practices
- Strong understanding of web security, authentication, session management
- Ability to write unit and integration tests for backend and frontend
The Nice-to-haves:
- Familiarity with Multi-page and single-page architectures.
- Familiarity with Redis, queues, or caching mechanisms.
- Experience optimizing web applications for performance and scale.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to speak and write clear, professional English.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience
- 3+ years in a principal, architect, or technical leadership role
- Proficiency in one or more backend frameworks, including Laravel, Node.js, or Python
- Experience with front-end frameworks, primarily React.js and Next.js
- Strong experience with SQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience building and integrating REST APIs
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and version control best practices
- Strong understanding of web security, authentication, and session management
- Ability to write unit and integration tests for backend and frontend applications
- Familiarity with multi-page and single-page architectures
- Familiarity with Redis, queues, or caching mechanisms
- Experience optimizing web applications for performance and scale
- Strong written and verbal professional English communication skills
What We Do
Dubizzle Group owns and operates bespoke classifieds portals in the emerging markets of online portals, primarily in the MENA, South Asia, and Southeast Asia regions. The group's flagship ventures are spread in 10 countries. We are leading providers of classified portals in several countries not only limited to horizontal and vertical platforms but also catering to multiple development projects in Pakistan. We provide digital platforms where businesses can work efficiently and be widely accessible to users from around the world. Dubizzle Labs is the tech arm of the group that is building scalable solutions and handles millions of users across the globe. We have a tech team of 300+ members in Pakistan and 150+ in sister companies across the globe. We have various departments providing diverse opportunities. There are some that will mentor you through training on the best tools and technologies while others will focus on quality engineering; some will give you the opportunity to work on Web Fronts and others on mobile. Dubizzle Labs takes pride in having a modern product culture where we use the best resources to polish your knowledge and skills
