Staff Backend Engineer, Yassir
NodeJS/Go
Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services
Open for applications
Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
Role
Who you are
- Solid backend engineering experience with Node.js and Go
- Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven problem-solving abilities and a willingness to help others achieve their goals
- Extensive experience with Git in a team environment
- Proficiency in writing testable code and unit tests
- Bonus: Experience in a fast-growing startup in the on-demand services industry
- Extensive experience with A/B experiments and a data-driven approach to product development
What the job involves
- As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the technical standards for the Backend in our Last Mile Delivery domain
- You will work closely with multiple squads within the domain to provide technical leadership in areas such as tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycles
- Your role will also involve mentoring junior developers and contributing to the scaling up of Backend engineers in multiple squads. This will include conducting technical interviews to identify and onboard talented engineers
- Design, build, and maintain features for domain applications
- Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Support and help grow domain team members by helping them with technical blockers
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve efficiency
- Participate in architecture and design discussions
- Strongly contribute to building the technical roadmap
- Conduct technical interviews
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Conduct feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
- Draft and submit intellectual property
- Conduct research and assess current technologies
- Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications
- Apply technical and domain expertise to products and problems
- Assess and write code to improve or extend applications
- Manage and provide assistance for current software applications
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to others
Our take
Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Yassir’s founders felt that providing on-demand services — which solves essential needs and, more importantly, builds trust to then provide payment services — was the catalyst to enable financial inclusion in the region.
The company started with ride-hailing services and progressed to offer last-mile delivery services, creating a multi-sided marketplace that brings drivers, couriers, merchants, suppliers, and wholesalers to individual users on one platform. With 3 out of 5 on-demand transactions in Algeria now made via Yassir, it's eyeing payment services next to truly build a super app.
The company’s Series B funding of $150 million in 2022 is supercharging its growth and development of new services in the existing markets. Further, Yassir’s leadership has its sights set on West Africa and the Middle East and will expand its engineering and product team across its multi-continental offices.
The company is battling two major challenges: competition and bureaucracy. It's no secret that Uber is a dangerous competitor to go up against, though Yassir intends to improve on the failings of Uber subsidiary Careem in several intended marketplaces. Moreover, each of the countries Yassir is expanding into has a unique regulatory environment that must be navigated. So far, Yassir hasn’t shown any signs that these issues are slowing it down.
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Company benefits
- 🎉 At Yassir we celebrate everything. OKR´s party!
- 🕟 Flexible working hours, because we care about your outcome and not output
- 💻 24/7 Office
- 📱 Mobile office - Office in all our sites 4 weeks at any location
- 🚉 Subsidized public transit pass
- 💬 Languages courses
- 📚 Yassir's academy
- 🎯 Outstanding mentors who will assist you in your growth
- 💸 Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company
- 👌🏽Very strong team cohesion with daily and weekly activities
- 🤝 Buddy program
- ⚖️ As a company, we are passionate for diversity and inclusion, 40% of our team are women leaders in the tech sector
Company values
- Do things - at Yassir, we have a bias toward action, we like to try things out and learn and we prefer experimentations over paralysis by analysis.
- Do things fast - at our stage, speed to market is the single most important factor of success, we are not afraid to move quickly even if it means breaking things (some of the time).
- Do things that scale - everything we do on day 1 needs to be done with scale in mind, we are big fans of automation, templates, playbooks, and anything that can help serve a large set of teammates, partners, and customers.
- Do things right - we strive to deliver the best service possible and to improve our craft all the time.
- Do the right thing- whether it is for our colleagues, partners, customers, or the planet, we always prioritize ethical behaviors and actions that maximize the well-being of all.
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Founders
Noureddine Tayebi
(CEO)After earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, Noureddine spent most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies including Intel and InSense. They came back to Algeria in 2017 to found Yassir.
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