Staff iOS Engineer, Yassir
The leading super App in the Maghreb region offering on-demand and payment services
Job no longer available
The leading super App in the Maghreb region offering on-demand and payment services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To serve Africans in the continent and its diaspora while creating economic opportunities for service providers and influencing social value.
Role
Who you are
- BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
- At least 10 years of industry experience 5 years of which in iOS mobile development with Swift
- Mastery of Swift
- Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development lifecycle
- Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
- Hands-on experience with mobile DevOps CI/CD tools
- Experience working with different architectures
- Experience writing testable code and unit tests
- Have published many iOS applications to the Store
- Experience in a fast-growing startup in a the on-demand services space is a plus
What the job involves
- As an iOS Staff Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the iOS applications across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain
- You will lead iOS engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycles
- You will mentor junior developers
- You will contribute to scaling up iOS engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews
- 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
Our take
Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Yassir’s founder 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. And now the company operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and recently expanded into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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 serves 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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Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation, exceptional benefits, and a flexible work environment.
- Highly collaborative workplace with colleagues from all around the world
- Make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans.
Leadership
Noureddine Tayebi
(Founder & 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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