Senior Back End Developer

Company Overview:

Dar, the founding member of the Sidara group, is an international multidisciplinary consulting organization specializing in engineering, architecture, planning, environment, project management, facilities management, and economics. Sidara operates in 60 countries with 20,500 professionals, Dar connects people, places, and communities through innovative solutions to the world's most complex challenges. We deliver projects from inception through completion, embracing challenges to empower communities worldwide. Learn more at www.dar.com.

Job Summary:

We're looking for an experienced Senior Back-End Developer to join our tech team at Dar.

In this role, you'll work on big challenges with data integration, processing, and automation. Your main goal will be to help teams use data effectively to support various business needs.

Our Vision and Values:

We aspire to be the chosen home of those with a gift for crafting solutions that empower people and an unwavering passion for learning and innovation. Our core values shape our culture and guide our decision-making. We are committed to:

• Excellence
• Responsibility
• Empowerment
• Connectivity
• Courage

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

• Define and implement strategies and technology that provide optimized data storage, high availability of data, along with failover mechanisms avoiding data loss or disconnection.
• Contribute to architectural design and decisions
• Improve product by developing new or improving functionalities
• Manage and improve CI procedures
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce technical debt and enable the team to iterate faster
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement the needful to serve the devised use cases.
• Identifying and addressing performance and scalability issues. Able to take ownership on complex requirements and decompose them into a proposal of small deliverables.
• Mentor your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of excellence
• Participate in Agile development cycles and SCRUM meetings
• Ability to understand the technology landscape at different sites and develop proposals for the integration of value-added software solutions
• Writing secure, scalable, testable code using modern best practices and technologies
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use and to comply with multiple clients or projects
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
• Ability to perform the needed tests to ensure backend applications are optimized
• Advise on methods to enhance the performance & architecture of existing databases
• Advise on best practices and procedures for database management, storage, maintenance, backup, archive, & cleanup
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, advocating for innovation and driving technical excellence within the team
• Collaborate with junior backend developers, provide technical guidance, and participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards
• Create and maintain a positive and collaborative team environment, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and other developers, to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Work within agile development methodologies, participating in code reviews, and providing feedback

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Programming languages: Python, JavaScript, .NET language (C#, VB.Net, etc.), JAVA is a plus
• Databases: SQL, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB (Time series database), NoSQL (like MongoDB), Graph databases (like GraphDB)
• Reporting: Power BI, Grfana
• Knowledge of REST, SOAP APIs
• Knowledge of Bigdata platforms is a plus
• Knowledge of Message Queueing platforms is a plus
• Knowledge of GitHub and Jira is a plus
• DevOps experience is a plus
• Cloud IoT platforms like Microsoft Azure or Thingsboard are a plus

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• At least 7 years of experience

* While we carefully review all applications, only candidates meeting the specified requirements will be contacted for further consideration. We appreciate your understanding and thank all applicants for their interest.