Senior Software Engineer II

Job description / Role

About this role

By applying here you will be considered for multiple similar positions within Careem across several teams and if you are successful we will match you to the best fit role based on your career and personal preferences.

What you'll do

• Work closely with engineers across many teams to architect and build highly scalable and robust backend applications and services.
• Write and review high quality, performant and reliable code.
• Continuously improve the quality and reliability of services and help define and enhance the patterns and principles that the team follows.
• Become the subject matter expert in your area and collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand and refine functional specifications.
• Mentor and guide junior members of the team.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and be willing to jump in and help resolve any incidents within the defined SLA.
• Participate in team agile and engineering practices and lead their continuous evolution.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to the design and architecture of new and existing services.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring software engineers.
• Strong understanding of highly scalable, cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Experience in building and running CI/CD pipelines (preferably with GitHub Actions).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
• Extensive experience working with at least one modern language such as Java, Golang, Kotlin.
• Experience designing and building large scale, distributed applications including making tradeoffs in architecture and functionality in a cloud environment.
• Experience operating production systems including defining metrics and processes for deploying changes to production reliably in live systems.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
• Experience with Kotlin, Java Spring, Golang and AWS.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience working with container technology including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a high-paced start-up environment.

What we'll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.