Yassir is the leading super App for on demand and payment services in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 26 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (+$43M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other par...
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As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain.
You will lead Backend engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle.
You will mentor junior developers.
You will contribute to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews.
About Your Role
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
Owner of these projects:
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
Create technical and domain expertise and apply to products and problems
Assess and write code to improve or extend application
Manage and assist current software applications
Experience providing technical leadership, and mentoring others
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
Experience in a fast-growing startup in a 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
Extensive experience with A/B experiments and have a data-driven attitude toward product development.
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