Senior Software Engineer
Requirements at a glance
Senior Software Engineer at Misr Technology Services is a role based in Cairo, Egypt. It does not mention visa sponsorship. Key skills include TypeScript, Python, SQL, and React. Applications are submitted through JazzHR.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not mentioned in the posting
- Application platform
- JazzHR
Skills in this posting
- TypeScript
- Python
- SQL
- React
- Next.js
- Vue
- Angular
- Node.js
- Docker
- Linux
- Git
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
- Agile
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Senior Software Engineer
About Misr Technology Services (MTS)
Misr Technology Services (MTS) is the trade-technology arm driving the digital transformation of Egypt’s cross-border trade, customs, and logistics ecosystem. We design, build, and operate mission-critical national infrastructure aimed at modernizing international trade flows, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving economic growth.
Role Summary
We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale multiple web applications. In this role, you will lead end-to-end feature development across modern frontends and Python/FastAPI backends, drive automated delivery via GitLab CI onto bare-metal infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers within an agile team.
Key Responsibilities
Fullstack Architecture & Delivery: Design, implement, and maintain high-performance web applications end-to-end.
API & System Design: Architect secure, scalable REST APIs and define clean integration boundaries.
Database Management: Model relational schemas, optimize queries, and manage migrations using Alembic.
DevOps & CI/CD: Maintain Dockerized application workflows and write automated build/test/deployment pipelines using GitLab CI for bare-metal hosts.
Reliability & Observability: Integrate testing suites (unit, integration, E2E) and instrument production observability (metrics, logs, traces).
Technical Leadership: Lead architectural discussions (RFCs), enforce code quality standards through reviews, and mentor engineers across the team.
Qualifications
Must-Haves
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical field.
Experience: At least 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications.
Backend: Strong production proficiency in Python, FastAPI, and schema migrations with Alembic.
Frontend: Solid experience with modern frontend frameworks (React preferred; Vue or Angular acceptable) and routing (React Router preferred; Next.js acceptable).
Databases: Strong foundation in SQL relational databases, schema design, and query optimization.
APIs: Extensive experience designing and consuming production REST APIs.
DevOps & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Docker and deploying services on bare-metal servers.
CI/CD & Version Control: Proficiency with Git, GitLab, and authoring GitLab CI pipelines.
Automated Testing: Dedicated practice writing comprehensive test suites (e.g., Pytest, Jest/Vitest, Cypress/Playwright).
Observability: Practical experience instrumenting and debugging applications using an observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
Leadership & Process: Proven experience working in an Agile environment, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring team members.
Nice-to-Have
Caching & In-Memory Stores: Working knowledge of Redis (caching strategies, session storage).
Architecture: Experience with or understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging/worker patterns.
Target Database: Specialized expertise in PostgreSQL (performance tuning, indexing strategies).
Alternative Backends: Working knowledge of Go or TypeScript (Node.js).
Alternative Protocols: Experience with gRPC, GraphQL, or legacy integrations via SOAP.
Systems Administration: Practical Linux systems administration and bare-metal networking fundamentals.