SENIOR & LEAD DJANGO DEVELOPER

Modista: The Social, Fashion Shopping and Styling App.

Modista is an Artificial Intelligence driven fashion tech start-up from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Our Social Looks platform brings Fashion Influencers, Personal Stylists and Customers to the same platform.

We handpick items for each client, to help them look and feel their best. Over time, our AI algorithm learns from each client's preferences, likes, and dislikes, making it the only shopping experience that can know women's tastes even better than her friends.

Backed by the Investment Group from Saudi Arabia, the business aims to be MENA’s favorite destination for personalized fashion. A unique business model to inspire and change the way people find the right fashion they love, by combining technology with the art of personal styling.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a high-performing Lead Developer to build our Ecommerce platform and API framework powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.

Our work culture is #overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in the industry.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand project requirements, writing bug free clean code and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
• Integrate Django backend with third party API
• 100% Hands on role
• Make architecture decisions that contribute to maintainable systems
• Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
• Responsible to drive and support Ecommerce project activities and ensure marketplace implementation, deepen customer engagement, satisfaction, and user engagement
• Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensure quality control in the process.
• Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
• Documentation and reference preparation for users by writing operating instructions including changes and revisions.
• Operate in a hyper-collaborative way and follow these guiding principles: Value common sense and simplicity over complexity, make decisions quickly and move nimbly, celebrate diverse ideas, Succeed and fail together as a team
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a reputed University
• React and/or Angular for front end
• Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
• Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
• Integration experience with Payment gateway, shipping company and VAT, database concepts, Experience of web services
• Experience in performance profiling, tuning, and optimization, caching mechanisms with Enterprise level applicants
• Analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skill with proven experience troubleshooting and fixing production bugs
• Experience in writing unit testing and test case automation.
• Ability to operate in Agile environment with a start-up mentality and unstructured environment, Energy, drive and passion to work, and operate in a digital world.
  
  

Skills:- Fullstack Developer, Python, Django, React.js, angular, MongoDB, MySQL and Amazon Web Services (AWS)