Lead Software Engineer (BE - Golang)
CAFU, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
Company Overview:
CAFU has a vision to create a better world through connected mobility, serving both consumers and businesses. Every day, we create convenience in motion for our customers in communities across the region. We started as an on-demand fuel delivery app and have now extended our services to car wash, tyre change and battery change...but this is only the beginning.
We have big [global] plans to be a super app with products amp; services which are agnostic of fuel and mobility. Cafu is a technology business passionate about sustainability and positively impacting the communities we operate in.
We’ve already won awards for best AI platform and voted LinkedIn’s Number 1 Top Startups 2021!
We encourage involvement in the community by using in-house developed technologies to work for the environment. CAFU signed up to the SDG Ambition Accelerator program by setting ambitious sustainability goals and developing a technology strategy to improve measurement and performance towards achieving those goals, aligning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13 committed to Climate Action.
If you want to make a real impact to our communities and you are forever curious about how things work and why and want to join a company that moves with purpose and collaborates, then we want to hear from you!
Job Requirements:
- Play an active role in designing, improving, and securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products
- Develop backend services, APIs, and integrations in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Write code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
- Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
Requirements
Skills/Competencies:
Essential Skills Needed:
- Minimum of 4 years of experience building complex, distributed backend systems, including concepts such as microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud computing, RESTful APIs etc.
- Experience with Golang (4 years minimum) and any combination of the following: NodeJs Python, Java, C++ or PHP (3+ years)
- Experience with using and modeling SQL and NoSQL Databases
Desirable Skills:
- Experience working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
- Have a track record of writing tests and working with CI/CD
- Knowledge of different software design patterns
- Experience with application performance monitoring and profiling
- Strong business acumen and passion for business building enabled by technology deployment
- Excellent communication / stakeholder skills and emotional intelligence to influence key decisions, mediate conflicts and build consensus
- Ideally have experience building products servicing the ‘On-demand’ economy
Benefits
What we offer:
- A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated
- A flexible workforce
- A competitive market salary with housing and transport allowances
- A fast-moving supportive company where everybody takes ownership over their work
- The opportunity to share in the success of the business with stock options for qualifying employees
- The opportunity to work on a product with growing global appeal
- The opportunity to work with some of the most talented people in the industry from well-known digital brands