Senior Software Engineer I - Web

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 team

Our team is seeking highly motivated and talented individuals who are passionate about creating stellar experiences for our customers and build amazing technology at a massive scale. We work on cutting edge technology and with a diverse set of talented individuals across many geographies.

As a Frontend (web) Engineer, you will be a part of a cross-functional team developing highly scalable and reliable web applications and services that our customers and partners use every day. You will work with a group of highly talented and motivated individuals to help shape the experiences that our users interact with every day on the Careem platform and that enable the business success of our partners. Your focus will be around creating an extensible set of web applications and services, building core supplier experience functionality which works in a hybrid online/offline manner.

What you'll do

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 processes and practices, contributing to their continuous evolution.

Work closely with other engineers on the team to build highly scalable and robust progressive web applications.

What you'll need

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.

4+ years of experience with one or more of modern JS frameworks: React (preferable), Angular or Vue

Solid HTML, CSS and JS experience and understanding

Proficiency in TypeScript and modern JS (ES6+)

(S)CSS Modules, responsive design and solid UI/UX understanding and best practices

Experience with one or more of the UI frameworks like Ant Design, Bootstrap, Material Design

Client side state management: Redux, React Context

Real-time technologies experience: Web Sockets, Socket.IO

Testing frameworks: Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Lib

JS ecosystem tooling: webpack, ESLint

Understanding of how modern browsers work and their limitations

Client side performance optimizations and best practices

Preferred skills & qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.

GraphQL or React Query experience

Developing components in isolation using Storybook

Experience with PWA and service worker

AWS and front end infrastructure knowledge (S3, CDN, CloudFront)

Familiarity with CI/CD (we use Jenkins)

Experience with Node.js and its frameworks (Nest, Express) is a plus

Docker experience

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. (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.