You will lead the Marketplace Matching team of amazing engineers located across different engineering sites. The Marketplace Matching team is serving Careem Rides, Food, Groceries and Express verticals by taking an optimum decision to match mobility supply and demand. You will partner with engineering leaders across Careem to ensure alignment about engineering challenges and opportunities.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers in implementing high quality services including design, development, and deployment of new business functionality.
- Build processes to make sure the team delivers effectively and efficiently.
- Enhance the ways of working within the team.
- Collaborate with Product Manager and Data Scientist to deliver on the product roadmap.
- Allocate available resources to meet operating objectives. Interact with direct reports, customers, and peers to share information and improve cross-departmental processes.
- Assist your teams in developing roadmaps for system and product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
- Strong ability to coach developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.
- Experience solving large-scale engineering challenges.
- Encourage and support others to take on responsibility, authority, and accountability.
Qualifications
- You have strong software engineering skills with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP.
- Working knowledge of at least one of these: Java, GO, Python, Kotlin.
- Deep understanding of how to build scalable distributed systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- You’ll have several years of serving in either an engineering management role.
- Demonstrate ability to run and improve technical development processes.
- Relevant experience in logistics marketplace matching including but not limited to cost function, platformization, batching, and pooling.
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 organization 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.
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
