Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities Include

• Software architecture and design of our distributed backend system to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements for our fast growing business.
• Integrate components into a fully functional & validated system
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, business owners, and technical program managers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our platform.
• Develop and implement software verification and quality assurance procedures
• Document designs and review code
• Continuously strive for higher quality and productivity

The ideal candidate will have a passionate commitment to improving the lives of people, an insane focus on excellence and customer service, and a strong alignment with our core values: being bold, focused, agile and collaborative.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Experience in multi-tiered distributed systems, web services, APIs, and relational & NoSQL databases
• A deep familiarity with the AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Elastic Search, Dynamo)
• Extensive backend programming experience in one or more of the following: Golang, Java, C/C++, Python
• Ability to: effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions; deal with loosely defined problems and fast changing requirements & think abstractly.
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design.
• Proven knowledge of system architecture.
• Great communication skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects at the same time.
• Able to take individual ownership of a project from start to finish.

Benefit Summary

• Competitive remuneration
• Premium medical insurance (including spouse and children)
• Unlimited leave*
• Discounted Careem rides.
• Entrepreneurial working environment
• Flexible working arrangements
• Mentorship and career growth