Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
About the Role:
We are looking for software engineers to join our Pay engineering team of talented engineers that share a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development.
You will build the backend systems that power the Careem engine, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. These large scale, distributed systems handle everything from user requests to payment processing.
Our tech stack is Java 8 and Spring Boot, Micro-Service Architecture, SQL and no-SQL DBs..
What you'll do
- Work closely with other engineers on the team to build highly scalable and robust backend applications and services.
- Write high quality, performant and reliable code while working on defined tasks/bugs independently.
- Work independently to understand functional specifications and deliver complete features.
- 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 contribute to their continuous evolution.
What you'll need
- 4+ years of professional software development experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
- Working experience with at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, C++ or Golang.
- Working knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals including: object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with system design and architecture.
- Experience operating online systems reliably including deploying changes to production in live systems.
Preferred skills & qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
- Experience with Java Spring, Golang and Cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
- Experience working with container technology including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational database systems.
- Experience applying professional software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
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.
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.