Senior Software Engineer I - Data Platform

Senior Software Engineer I - Data Platform

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the Team

The Careem Data Platform team’s mission is to provide a platform to abstract big data complexities and enable fast, reliable and secure access to data. As a member of this team, you will be at the forefront of fulfilling this mission. You will be working with the top talent of the region, leveraging modern big data tools and techniques to solve the region’s day to day problems, on top of our own in-house data platform, serving users in real-time.

This role will be part of the Data processing and computation platform team. We are heavily invested in open source technologies like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Trino etc. You would also have an opportunity to contribute and collaborate with the open source community.

What you'll do

• Bringing an innovative and creative mindset to data engineering challenges to develop a modern data platform with efficient reusable components
• Design, architect, solutioning, implement and test rapid prototypes that demonstrate value of the data and present them to diverse audiences
• Your focus will be on making code more efficient to run, optimizing resources across the cluster, and speeding up the compute workloads we face
• Continuously improve our engineering processes, tests, and systems that allow us to scale the code base and productivity of the team
• Collaborate with teams globally and operate in a fast paced environment
• Responsible for creating reusable and scalable data pipelines

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