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The Opportunity

Join our Rapid Innovation Consulting team in Pakistan as a Senior Consultant - Software Engineer (Backend). Propel your career by swiftly mastering the code base, actively contributing to strategic planning sessions, and seamlessly incorporating cutting-edge industry trends. Elevate your craft by developing top-tier, thoroughly tested code, adeptly addressing post-release challenges, and delivering elegant solutions for complex problems. Be at the forefront of enhancing the reliability and efficiency of our codebases, wielding influence over the technical vision. Take pride in your role as a key contributor to code reviews, championing programming standards, and shaping the entire software development life cycle. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact and be a driving force in our innovative and collaborative work environment.

EY Rapid Innovation

As a Multinational Member Firm in the EY network, Rapid Innovation, based in Pakistan, exclusively provides its services to MENA based EY Member Firms across the MENA region, excluding Pakistan. The work is executed remotely by working virtually with our MENA onshore teams and sometime may require travel to MENA EY offices.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Hit the ground running - Gather an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the code base and technologies stack within weeks.
• Be part of planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out/roll-back strategies for releases.
• Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work.
• Create unit tests in accordance with industry standards to cover assigned work.
• Write and maintain exemplary code following industry best programming practices.
• Actively contribute to post-release maintenance issues.
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems.
• Pioneer reliability and efficiency of existing codebase, platforms and/or core systems.
• Impact on the direction and scope of technical vision within your stream.
• Gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of a product and the position of your work stream in it.
• Code reviews all major pull requests, defining programming standards and providing

constructive feedback.

• Be a part of the entire software development life cycle, end to end.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of next-generation web

applications in backend programming language (preferably in Kotlin/Java and Spring Boot);

• Experience in API based architectures (e.g., SOA).
• Experience with any front-end frameworks (preferably React) is a plus.
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products.
• Experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, and performance analysis.
• Driven to gain insight into different new and old technologies.
• Been on at least one “death march” and know exactly why some things must be avoided.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment.
• Maintain and ensure optimal software quality within the assigned work stream and product.
• Working knowledge with AWS infrastructure and deploying applications on EKS is a plus

What we look for

We are interested in entrepreneurs who have the confidence to develop and promote a brand-new strategic vision both internally and externally. You will be business savvy with a passion for innovation as well as the motivation to create your own EY journey.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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