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Senior Data Engineer II

Careem Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 10 May 2024

Financial

  • Salary unspecified
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Apply from abroad

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

  • About the Company: 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.
  • Mission: Simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organization that inspires.
  • Years of Operation: Since 2012
  • Achievements: 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.
  • Operating Countries: Over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan
  • Team: Careem Data Platform team
  • Team's Mission: Provide a platform to abstract big data complexities and enable fast, reliable, and secure access to data.
  • Role: Data processing and computation platform team member
  • Technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Trino, etc.
  • Responsibilities:
    • Bring an innovative and creative mindset to data engineering challenges
    • Design, architect, solution, implement, and test rapid prototypes
    • Focus on making code more efficient, optimizing resources, and speeding up compute workloads
    • Continuously improve engineering processes, tests, and systems
    • Collaborate with teams globally and operate in a fast-paced environment
    • Create reusable and scalable data pipelines
  • Requirements:
    • 6+ years of professional software development experience
    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
    • Extensive software development experience with Scala, Java, or similar languages
    • Prior experience with distributed systems
    • Proficiency in cloud-native Big Data technologies
    • Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices
  • Nice to have:
    • Experience with cloud control plane (AWS, GCP) or database internals
    • Contribution to open source software
    • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Benefits:
    • Opportunity to drive impact in the region while learning and growing
    • Work and learn from inspiring colleagues
    • Work 4 days a week in the office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year
    • Unlimited vacation days per year
    • Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements
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About Careem

Careem is the leading technology platform in the Middle East, simplifying and improving lives since 2012. With operations in over 70 cities across 10 countries, Careem empowers millions of customers and Captains. Our mission is to create a seamless experience for mobility, food, payments, and more, while fostering talent and entrepreneurship in the region.

Benefits at Careem

    • Flexible work schedule with remote work options.
    • Unlimited vacation days and healthcare benefits.
    • Fitness reimbursements for health activities.