Senior Software Engineer - Laravel

At Dubizzle Labs we are looking to further expand our Pakistan engineering office of already 300+. We are most interested in bringing on board colleagues who love to learn, perform, and teach. We are building a high-quality engineering environment with a super focus on delivering value to customers. Your primary responsibility would be to build world-class suite products to support the hyper-growth of our businesses in 10 countries.

Job Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development life cycle
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Designing the application according to specifications
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Be responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our site
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities

Job Requirements:

The Must-haves:

• 2-5 years of software development experience ideally in Laravel, React/Vue, MySQL, Postgres and AWS
• Minimum Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Should know HTML, CSS and front-end development in general. If we ask you to make a landing page, it should be pixel-perfect
• Understanding of OOP principles (the PHP flavour), JavaScript and MVC frameworks
• The ability to write good tests and testable code
• Proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, and SQL
• A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools, and of developing web services

The Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working with Node.js, React and Next.js
• Experience working with Strapi CMS
• Experience working with WordPress