Senior Backend Engineer
Engineering · Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid) LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale, and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans over 145 countries and more than 1,000 language locales. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with a presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, India, Turkey, and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at LXT, who will work closely with our engineering, operations and product teams to build the most secure, cutting edge data annotation tools and platforms.
LXT technical calibers are expected to have a high level of ownership and to be Hands-On engineers who take over the tasks until they pass the finish line .
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and test new products, while maintaining the existing
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends in software and cloud solutions.
- Ensure high code and design quality that fulfills business requirements and good design aspects (scalability, fault tolerance).
- Coach, mentor, and support junior team members by s upporting the culture of technical excellence and zero technical debt
- Supporting technical estimations and effort sizing.
- Establishing code guidelines and reviewing PRs.
- Adopting unit testing and integration testing in the system.
- Design and implement solutions to protect against common security vulnerabilities
- Directly involved with the Product team to understand Requirements.
- Provide technical feedback about the supervised team members when required.
- Help the team to adopt modern software engineering practices, like Scrum, and be an active player in the Agile ceremonies.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 4 to 6 years of experience in programming for web server/service applications
- Expertise in Python, Node(JS/TS), C# or skill in a similar language
- Experience with Relational and non-relational databases
- Good understanding of web servers (Apache, Nginx) and essential configurations
- Excellent problem-solving, design, coding, and debugging skills
- Technical Understanding of security and online privacy threats and the existing solution space to protect against them
- Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 Web Security Vulnerabilities and their mitigation
- Experience preemptively and actively resolving SRE issues in production systems
- Familiarity with containerization concepts (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience with TDD, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms
- Strong command of Git and team workflows
- Professional-level written and spoken English
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc...)
- Experienced with any of the cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or Amazon AWS)
- Good understanding of CI/CD, containerization, and container orchestration tools
- Familiar with Agile project management methodologies
Additional information:
LXT is an equal opportunity employer and ensures that no applicant is subject to less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, color, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependents, or physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision is made on the basis of skills, qualifications, and experiences.
We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share but also by how we positively impact people, society, and the planet.
Location
Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid)
Minimum Experience
Experienced
