Yassir is hiring a
Staff Back-End Engineer, Remote - Egypt, South Africa

Summary

The job is for a Backend Staff Engineer at Yassir, a fast-growing tech company offering on-demand services and financial solutions across multiple countries. The role involves leading backend engineering, mentoring junior developers, and contributing to scaling the team using Node.js.

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

• 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

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
• Stake in the company
• Subsidized public transit pass
• Lasting impact on the company's culture
• 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