Senior Software Engineer I

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.

**_Do you want to help build a world-class institution, experience the thrill of being part of a high-growth technology company, and improve people’s lives?_**

**About Us**:
At Careem PAY, our purpose is to empower people to lead better lives by simplifying their payment experiences and access to financial services. In the process, we want to build an organization that inspires and become the leading digital financial services platform of the region.

**About the Role**:
We are looking for software engineers to join our 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.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Development of our distributed backend system to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements for our fast growing business.
- Build and ship new features and systems, with an emphasis on code quality, maintainability, readability, and testing.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our platform.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code

**Job Requirements**:
**Must have**:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 4 plus years of experience with software development
- Strong skills in Object-oriented design, data-structures and algorithms.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, server-side technologies, web-services and REST-Apis (must love coding)
- Working experience with system design and architecture
- Fluency with software engineering tools.
- Ability to: effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions; deal with loosely defined problems and fast changing requirements & think abstractly
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience in the fintech / payment industry

**Nice to have**:

- Experience in multi-tiered distributed systems.
- Web services & APIs, and relational & NoSQL databases
- Experience in GoLang, Python, Angular, React or Kotlin
- Experience of Micro services & building scalable and reliable platforms.

**What we'll provide you**:
In addition to a competitive long-term total compensation with salary and equity, we have a reward philosophy that expands beyond this. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:

- Be part of a Remote-First organization that offers flexible ways of working from the office and home.
- Work from any country in the world for 30 days a year
- Use Unlimited Vacation days throughout the year
- Access fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.
- Work and learn from great minds
- Create impact in a region with untapped potential
- Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day