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Senior Backend Developer

Company Name: Property Finder
Employment Type:Full Time
Location: Dubai
Experience: 2-5 years
Degree: Bachelor
Gender:Any
Age:Any  
Nationality: Any
Salary:Unspecified
No. Of Vacancies:1
Job Description:
We are backed by leading investors such as General Atlantic famous for having invested in growth companies such as Facebook, Uber, Alibaba and AirBnB to name a few. With the most recent funding round, the Propertyfinder Group is one of the fastest growing companies in the region. 
What you can expect from us
We provide a highly international and collaborative environment, with emphasis on talent and development of employees. Our product teams are truly cross functional – design, engineering, data and product working closely together in building excellent products. This is your opportunity to work with a world class team. Come join us in shaping the future of real estate.

Summary
We are looking for incredibly talented Senior Backend Developers to join our development team here at Property Finder. We believe in nurturing your talent and we encourage creativity and autonomy where you are free to grow and develop your career in a fun, forward thinking and positive environment.
As a company, we are very performance oriented and test the performance of all code and database queries, but we always ensure that this does not affect code quality and legibility. We take the time to refactor and rework code when necessary, but we always have the business goals in mind when doing this.
We expect our developers to be passionate about new technologies and think of creative ways that they could benefit our business. We want our developers to stay current with changes in technologies such as PHP, Symfony, Go, TypeScript, ElasticSearch and MongoDb.
We are big proponents of Agile development methods with small cross-functional teams fully empowered to take an idea from inception and to be able to deliver it fully tested into production with minimal outside disruptions. Because of this you will need to be able to work well with others in your team and be able to contribute meaningful ideas on how to best achieve your objectives and key results.
 
Responsibilities
In a large tech department, divided in smaller teams, you’ll be in charge of developing new features, as well as refactoring existing projects.
You need to be able to write clean and scalable code.
You’ll need to be able to participate in brainstorming sessions and to bring your opinion and experience to the table.

Requirements
Strong in Golang and preferably PHP
Experience working with MVC Frameworks, such as Zend or Symfony
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Very strong Object Oriented Programming and design pattern skills
Very comfortable working with MySQL / Doctrine 2, MongoDB
PHPUnit
REST web services
Git / Github

Prefered Requirements
Computer Science (or similar) education
Golang
ElasticSearch
Comfortable working with testing frameworks
Message Queuing / RabbitMQ
Memcached or Redis