Yassir is hiring a
Head of Engineering in Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Summary

The job is for a Head of Engineering at Yassir., a rapidly growing tech company offering on-demand services and financial solutions across various cities in Africa and beyond. The candidate should have extensive experience in cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and agile methodologies, and be able to manage remote teams.

Requirements

• Work experience as a head of engineering, engineer director or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Successful track record recruiting outstanding tech talents and managing multiple engineering teams
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development and in enterprise architecture
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams

Responsibilities

• Hire outstanding engineering talents and scale the tech team across Europe/Africa
• Contribute to the company technical culture and be responsible for the success and personal growth of our engineers
• Oversee mobile, front-end and back-end development teams and their projects. Ensure they can deliver their best work by spotting and alleviating blockers, setting IT processes, coaching teammates, and setting the bar for technical excellence
• Review architecture of products and suggest improvements
• Work with the product team to plan and oversee the execution of the product roadmap and contribute to designing strategies for future developments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility, on-demand or fintech space is a plus

Benefits

• Be part of one of the first Algerian startups to go through the Y Combinator program and one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North Africa
• Have a lasting impact on our company's culture
• Perfect timing with renowned investors to build something great
• Extremely steep learning curve with own responsibility and intensive guidance
• Make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans