This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the core engineering team of an instant credit fintech. Octo is a digital banking platform focused on serving the 19 million Egyptians who have bank accounts but do not have credit cards. Octo serves these users through a suite of data-driven banking products led by a Visa card and access to credit.

About the Job

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with experience building scalable applications. This role will be part of the software development life cycle for Python Django applications — from concept and design to testing.

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who will:

• Develop high-quality features alongside our Product Team to better serve our customers.
• Tackle complex financial processes with the right patterns and appropriate solutions.
• Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our customers.
• Be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying medium to large-sized projects.
• Be creative and experiment with new solutions but pragmatic and committed to the highest reliability and security standards.
• Produce detailed design specifications for new features and functionalities.
• Write maintainable and scalable code that complies with code quality standards.
• Test the product with unit tests and in controlled, real situations.
• Maintain systems once they are up and running.
• Be able to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team.
• Work closely with team members to achieve product and organizational objectives effectively.

Job Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/master's degree in computer science or related technical domain.
• 2.5 up to 3 years of industry experience in backend software development.
• Proficiency in Python and the Django framework.
• Experience being a part of building complex software systems that have been successfully deployed.
• Capability to write and execute unit test cases.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Familiar with REACT.
• Designed and managed relational and non relational databases.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Independent researching, solution finding, analysis, and problem-solving skills and capabilities as well as knowledge of software engineering best practices and tools.
• Good problem-solving skills and object-oriented design skills.
• Authentication methods and authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience in designing and implementing regression tests.
• Experience in Quality Assurance (QA).
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, create technical designs, and specifications.

Benefit

• Social insurance.
• Medical insurance
• Flexible working hours (we are a task-based organization).
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