About PayFort an Amazon Company: We serve the needs of online shoppers in all Arabic speaking and surrounding countries through our trusted secure payment network that gives everyone the opportunity to shop online safely and easily. We build trust between buyers and online sellers by enabling consumers to transact online using the payment options they prefer with complete security and peace of mind while supporting the most popular payment methods available globally. PayFort is part of Souq Group established in 2013. PayFort is regional expert in payment processing technology and solutions across major markets in the GCC & Levant countries operating in UAE Egypt Saudi Arabia Lebanon Jordan and Qatar.
Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for a seasoned senior developer to design/build massive scale distributed computing solutions. You will be responsible for driving the teams technical direction strategizing and shaping our longterm vision and architecture. You will own major deliverables endtoend drive roadmaps and provide technical leadership to the engineering team. If youre excited by cloud computing designing highly scalable fault tolerant systems and want to be challenged by the toughest computer science problems then join us to build the next generation distributed systems solving big data problems.
You should be someone who wants to conceive and design highly scalable robust software and wants to see their software thrive in the face of traffic from huge cloud computing services. The ideal candidate will have strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience as well as experience working on high availability production systems.
Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for our customers.
Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
Instill best practices for software development and documentation assure designs meet requirements and deliver highquality work on tight schedules.
Project management prioritization planning of projects and features Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
Operational Excellence monitoring & operation of production services
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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