About Taager
Taager is the first B2B startup focused on social sellers- Merchants. We are democratizing the social e-commerce space by enabling budding as well as seasoned entrepreneurs to sell online with no required capital, inventory, or operational experience. We have our Merchants covered from merchandising, warehousing, shipping, cash collection and customer service.
In 2019 we started as a team of 8 people, now we are over 350 employees across Egypt, KSA and the UAE. We serve more than 34K social e-commerce sellers from incredibly diverse backgrounds – from students earning a part-time income to highly ambitious digital marketing experts looking to become solo entrepreneurs. The sellers on our platform benefit from access to 2,500+ highly marketable products. Our people are driven by our mission and motivated by our desire to deliver the most seamless customer experience to the sellers on our platform. With a continuous focus on quality and execution, we are changing the social e-commerce landscape in the MENA region!
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower anyone to start and scale their e-commerce business.
Our Vision
We envision a world where everyone has the opportunity to sell online, make a living and even get rich in an easy and low-risk environment. A world where the magic of technology becomes accessible to the most talented of Merchants.
Why Taager?
You'll be working with a diverse team based in different countries around the globe
You will have the option to work remotely with flexible hours but you are always welcome to our vibrant, startup environment offices in Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh. Core working hours are between 11 am to 5 pm EET.
Unlimited vacations.
We offer a comprehensive compensation package (Salary + Stock Options + Biannual Salary Increases), as we believe our employees should be compensated fairly for their talent and capabilities.
You will be working alongside talented, caring, and ambitious individuals. We're very intentional about our selection process so that we hire people who can help us become a vibrant and healthy work environment for everyone.
We offer a comprehensive medical insurance package.
About the Role
We are looking for a detail-oriented Senior 2 Software Engineer to collaborate on designing and developing existing and new software services. You will be overseeing, as part of an architectural council, the structural design process, estimating costs, and ensuring software quality throughout the stages of design and implementation and deployment. To ensure success as a Senior 2 Engineer, you should demonstrate deep engineering knowledge and experience in your topic.
Role Responsibilities:
You will evaluate existing services and processes to identify areas that need optimization and enhancement
You will assess the efficiency of technologies, tools and practices used in the team
You will build, set-up, and improve coding and documentation standards; and drive the team to follow best practices when writing and reviewing code
You will improve the culture and the processes of the team
You will integrate components into a fully functional and efficient system
You will take individual ownership of a project from start to finish; owning features and parts of Taager domain
You will define SLIs and SLOs for a highly reliable, efficient software service
You will develop backend code; writing of automated tests and performing code reviews
Must have:
More than 5 years of backend development experience
Extensive experience in developing and deploying microservice architectures
Experience with event-driven systems
Experience in cloud deployments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Experience in microservice best practices (canary, monitoring, SRE)
Experience with writing Restful API backends
Experience with relational and nonrelational databases
Experience in JVM languages
Experience with Spring framework
Automated testing mindset
Experience with Git and its best practices
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Ability to prioritize and help design features
Knowledge of Web-based security (JWT/OAuth 2)
Nice to have:
More than 5 years of backend development experience
Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field of specialization preferred
Experience migrating projects from monolith to microservices
Knowledge of underlying infrastructure technologies; monitoring, logging, relational and nonrelational databases
Experience in NodeJS
Experience with setup and management of CI/CD pipelines
Frontend development experience
