Staff Backend Engineer (NodeJS) - SuperApp at Yassir

About the Role

• As a Backend Staff/lead 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.

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

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
• 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

What We Offer

• You will 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. We are current in +30 cities (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, France and Germany)
• Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company
• 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