Remote Staff Back-End Engineer

Summary

Yassir is a leading super App in the Maghreb region offering on-demand services and introducing financial services. As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will drive technical standards, lead engineers, conduct interviews, and contribute to scaling up the team. You should have at least 10 years of experience with NodeJS and a strong foundation in programming fundamentals.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in backend engineering with NodeJS
• Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills
• Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
• Solid understanding of X
• Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
• Experience writing testable code and unit tests

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain
• Lead Backend engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle
• Mentor junior developers
• Contribute to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews
• Design, build and maintain features for the domain applications
• Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Help the domain team members with technical blockers supporting them and helping them grow
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency
• Participate in architecture and design discussions
• Participate strongly in building the technical roadmap
• Conduct technical interviews
• Help Improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
• Draft and submit intellectual property
• Research and assess current technologies
• Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-growing startup in the on-demand services space is a plus
• Have a deep knowledge of React and NodeJS, and you have experience developing products with it
• Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting

Benefits

• Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company
• Subsidized public transit pass
• 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