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The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable backend systems, collaborate on APIs, mentor engineers, and optimize system performance.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Bosta:
Launched in 2017, Bosta is an overnight delivery provider for E-commerce companies in Egypt. Leveraging technology to empower businesses is what we do best. Our goal is to disrupt the logistics industry by bringing technology and experience altogether 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 the Role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be engaged in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems. You will play a key role in the architecture and implementation of our applications, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability.
Job Code:
2025TECH-208
Job Responsibilities
- 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 them 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.
Job Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
- A 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.
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Docker
Elasticsearch
Express
GCP
JavaScript
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Node.js
Redis
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2017, Bosta is a pioneering tech-driven logistics company providing next-day delivery and fast transfer services to e-commerce businesses across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and streamlining operations, we are committed to disrupting the logistics industry. Our all-in-one delivery solutions blend innovation with expert knowledge, enabling us to meet the evolving needs of businesses and empower them to grow in a fast-paced market.
