Senior Backend Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
Job Description
LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans over 95 countries and more than 400 languages. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, India, Turkey and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at LXT, who will work closely with our engineering, operations and product teams to build the most secure, cutting edge data annotation tools and platforms.
LXT technical calibers are expected to have a high level of ownership, and to be Hands-On engineers that take over the tasks until it passes the finish line.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Preferred qualifications
LXT technical calibers are expected to have a high level of ownership, and to be Hands-On engineers that take over the tasks until it passes the finish line.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and test new products, while maintaining the existing
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends in software and cloud solutions.
- Ensure high code and design quality that fulfills business requirements and good design aspects (scalability, fault tolerance).
- Coach, mentor and support junior team members by:
- Supporting the culture of technical excellence and zero technical debt
- Supporting technical estimations and effort sizing.
- Establishing code guidelines and reviewing PRs.
- Adopting unit testing and integration testing in the system.
- Design and implement solutions to protect against common security vulnerabilities
- Directly involved with the Product team to understand Requirements.
- Provide technical feedback about the supervised team members when required.
- Help the team to adopt modern software engineering practices, like Scrum, and be an active player in the Agile ceremonies.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in programming for the web.
- Solid understanding of Python for web applications
- Extensive experience with Django, Flask or other Python web frameworks
- Experience with both Relational and NoSQL databases
- Good understanding of web servers (Apache, Nginx) and essential configurations
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity
- Passionate to optimize the performance bottlenecks and large-scale deployments
- Familiarity with containerization concepts (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes)
- Big fan of unit testing and TDD
- Strong command of Git and team workflows.
- Professional-level written and spoken English.
Preferred qualifications
- Experienced with any of the cloud platforms (Azure, GCP or Amazon)
- Good understanding of CI/CD, containerization and container orchestration tools
- Familiar with Agile project management methodologies.
- Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 Web Security Vulnerabilities and their mitigation.
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Job Detail
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Job IdJD1422687
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationCairo, Egypt
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EducationNot mentioned