About this role
For its Software Engineering team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, LuLu Retail is hiring a Software Development Engineer 3. Filed under Software Engineering, the job covers the usual ground for that area. The posting is for an office role in Dubai, with the team based there. Experience at senior fits here, and the posting is written with that in mind. No closing date is listed, so it is best not to wait too long before applying.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by LuLu Retail.
This is a senior backend engineering role in the Customer Applications squad in Dubai, needing 7-10 years of experience.
The role builds one of the region's most ambitious e-commerce platforms, high-traffic and multi-region, engineered for scale.
The engineer owns critical systems used by millions of customers, from product discovery through delivery.
The role defines how systems are built, owns multi-quarter, multi-team goals and drives technical strategy.
It designs and builds identity services covering authentication, authorisation, session management and SSO with OAuth 2.0 and JWT.
It develops account management APIs and real-time order tracking services aggregating warehouse, transport and delivery updates.
It architects the refunds platform covering return eligibility, refund calculations, payment reversals and wallet credits.
It requires strong proficiency in Python, Java or Node.js, microservices at scale, cloud platforms, Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD, advanced databases, event-driven architecture and caching.
It needs API security expertise and domain experience in e-commerce, retail, logistics or similar high-traffic consumer platforms.
The stack includes Python (Django), Node.js, Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, GCP, Azure and AWS.
Original posting: https://careers.luluretail.com/job/Software-Development-Engineer-3/733263622/