Senior Software Engineer I - Fullstack

Careem

  • Pakistan
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
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 70 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.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.
  • Contribute to both frontend and backend codebases, collaborating across layers to design and implement end-to-end 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.
  • Collaborate on system design discussions, API design, and data modeling to ensure smooth integration between frontend and backend components.
  • Develop and maintain backend services as needed, with a focus on microservice-based architecture, performance, and reliability.
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.
  • Working knowledge of backend development and RESTful API design.
  • Familiarity with at least one backend language or framework such as Go or Java.
  • Understanding of microservice-based architecture and distributed systems.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
  • 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.
  • Experience integrating backend services into web applications.
  • Understanding of system design, scalability and operational best practices in distributed environments.

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