Engineering Manager, Yassir
Mobility Domain
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
- To be successful in this role, you should have outstanding technical skills and you are not afraid to be hands-on, you are confident in leading and serving tech teams, good at juggling multiple products, and thrive in high-growth environments
- Experienced in TDD and DDD
- Good understanding and hands on experience of TDD and DDD
- Previous experience with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider is a nice to have
- At least three years of work experience as an engineering manager or tech lead at an engineering department
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces
- Good understanding of agile methodologies
- Excellent leadership and project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams
- Solid software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable, and meets desired architectural objectives
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
- BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field
What the job involves
- As part of our expansion effort, we are looking for an engineering manager to lead our team of financial services developers and be part of our Europe tech hub
- You will be based out of Berlin or Paris and you will lead a tech team supporting Yassir's product development and delivery
- You will own and build large-scale systems and micro-services
- Together with your team, you will design, develop, and deliver powerful applications in a highly dynamic environment
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into pragmatic and effective technical solutions
- Contribute to hiring the engineering team for the product you are responsible for
- Work with the different stakeholders to establish a culture of technical excellence and be responsible for the success and personal growth of your team
- Oversee engineering teams and their projects. Ensure they can deliver their best work by spotting and alleviating blockers and coaching teammates
- Build robust and scalable software in Node.js
- Help improve existing code quality through introducing quality assurance and performing code reviews
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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Leadership
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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