Senior Engineering Manager, Yassir
Last Mile Delivery
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Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services
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Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as an engineering manager or tech lead at an engineering department
- Strong technical expertise in software engineering, including experience with software architecture, design patterns, and development methodologies
- Good Understanding of agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality software products on time and within budget
- Experience in the following technologies is a plus: Node.Js, Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rest & Restful APIs, Microservices architecture, GCP
- Excellent leadership and project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams:
- Highly organized, creative and critical thinker
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
- Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility or on-demand services space is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (Last mile delivery)to join our team and lead our tech hub in Berlin
- You will be responsible for managing, motivating and supporting the team with time sensitive tasks and also focus on demanding operational environments where the ultimate goal is to enhance team performance and productivity
- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and coaching to help them grow in their roles
- Oversee the development and delivery of high-quality software products, ensuring that they meet business requirements and customer needs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other stakeholders, to define product requirements and develop roadmaps
- Continuously improve our development process and methodologies, driving innovation and increasing efficiency
- Ensure that the team adheres to best practices for software engineering, including code reviews, testing, and documentation
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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