Senior Software Engineer (Android) SuperApp

Overview

Do you want to help build a world-class institution, experience the thrill of being part of a high-growth technology company, and improve people’s lives?

At Careem, we are driven by the purpose of simplifying the lives of people and building an awesome organisation that inspires. Based in Dubai, we started our journey as a pioneer of the Middle East’s ride-hailing economy. Today, Careem is the region’s everyday Super App operational in 13 countries and over 100 cities. The Super App provides a host of daily services that people need to move around, to order things and to transfer money in one unified smartphone app. Our goal is to simplify people’s daily lives so that they can spend their precious time and mindshare on things that really matter and on realizing their potential.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You’ll be part of the Super App front-end team, which have an end-to-end responsibility of building and delivering the front-end of the Careem Super App – a key pillar in the Careem strategy to become the region’s everyday Super App!

In addition to adhering to exceptionally high engineering standards, you are expected to build the application in a largely scalable manner, high quality, good application performance and applying best-in-class usability standards and practices.

Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including Java, Kafka, Redis, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch. You and your team will touch many technologies including AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Consul, Redis, Kafka, and Postgres

Technologies we use: Android, Java, Kotlin, Realm, Dagger, RxJava2, Coroutines.

This role is for a position in Dubai, U.A.E

Responsibilities

• You design and build advanced, scalable applications for the Android platform.
• You work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them into pragmatic and effective technical solutions.
• You integrate with our backend services (JSON, REST, etc.) to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
• You own end-to-end product modules/features from requirement to going live.
• You design and review code, troubleshoot and act as a consultant to team members on technical matters.
• You gather requirements by interacting directly with the end users and advocate delightful user experiences.
• You continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• You unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• You use core animation to create engaging motion effects and intuitive interfaces.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Android application development with extensive knowledge about Java, collections, algorithms and well-known application frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience of RxJava, Coroutines, and Dagger.
• Strong understanding of interactive application development paradigm under Android, memory management, file I/O, network programming, concurrency and multithreading.
• Experience in Android-specific application development and publishing Android apps in the play store.
• Good understanding of design patterns.
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle. Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience in working with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Good experience on testing frameworks, including Robolectric and Espresso.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal, formal and informal).

Salary Package:

• Competitive salary
• Unlimited annual leave
• Entrepreneurial working environment
• Flexible working arrangements
• Mentorship and career growth