Senior Software Engineer - Search

Job Summary

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer in our Dubai office to join our geographically distributed Search team. You will help build out our next generation search platform which will power some of Careem’s verticals (food, groceries and quik). The platform solves complex query understanding across our merchants’ catalogs and inventories as well as across the Super App itself.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with engineers across many teams to architect and build highly scalable and robust backend applications and services.
• Write and review high quality, performant and reliable code.
• Continuously improve the quality and reliability of services and help define and enhance the patterns and principles that the team follows.
• Become the subject matter expert in your area and collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand and refine functional specifications.
• Mentor and guide junior members of the team.
• Participate in team agile and engineering practices and lead their continuous evolution.
• Work closely with other engineering leaders to create and follow the tech vision for the team.

Basic qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring software engineers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
• Extensive experience working with at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, C++, Golang, Kotlin.
• Experience designing and building large scale, distributed applications including making tradeoffs in architecture and functionality in a cloud environment.
• Experience operating production systems including defining metrics and processes for deploying changes to production reliably in live systems.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Lucene and/or ElasticSearch/SOLR.
• Background in Ecommerce search engines.
• Experience with Java Spring, Golang and AWS.
• Experience working with container technology including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a high-paced start-up environment.

What we’ll provide you

In addition to a competitive long-term total compensation with salary and equity, we have a reward philosophy that expands beyond this. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:

• Be part of a Remote-First organisation.
• Work from any country in the world for 60 days a year.
• Use Unlimited Vacation days throughout the year.
• Access fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.
• Work and learn from great minds.
• Create impact in a region with untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.