The document provides information about various teams and roles at Careem, a ride hailing company. It details the teams working on projects like marketplace, platform, payments, loyalty, web development and front-end. It also lists the locations, technologies used and type of work done by each team.
The document provides information about various teams and roles at Careem, a ride hailing company. It details the teams working on projects like marketplace, platform, payments, loyalty, web development and front-end. It also lists the locations, technologies used and type of work done by each team.
The document provides information about various teams and roles at Careem, a ride hailing company. It details the teams working on projects like marketplace, platform, payments, loyalty, web development and front-end. It also lists the locations, technologies used and type of work done by each team.
The document provides information about various teams and roles at Careem, a ride hailing company. It details the teams working on projects like marketplace, platform, payments, loyalty, web development and front-end. It also lists the locations, technologies used and type of work done by each team.
many questions. A short document responding to the ‘Mmmms and arrrr’s’ you might have on first encounter with a Careem Recruitment Partner. Detailing core teams, projects and technologies. Who are we? ‘Careem’ is the leading ride hailing & technology platform in the MENA region. We are currently operating in 14 counties and in 100 cities with 25+ million registered users. After our recent investment of $500m, we are now the 180th unicorn globally. Our investors include the likes Didi (world largest ride hailing business, recently bought out Uber from China, Rakuten (3rd largest ecommerce company globally after eBay and Amazon) and Daimler (one of the largest car manufacturers).
Office locations hiring.
• Berlin (Potsdamer Platz) Newly established within the Sony Centre (WeWork function) and currently 75 heads. Scaling to 150 over the course of 2018 and 300 over 2019.
• Dubai (Head office)
Engineering is at around 90 with continued plans for rapid growth
• Karachi (12th Floor, Al-Tijarah Centre)
Engineering is at 80 with plans for rapid growth
Teams present and hiring within Engineering:
• Mobile (iOS/Android/Kotlin) • Front-end (JS, AngularJS, NodeJS, ReactJS) • Back-end (Java Distributed Systems) • Infra (AWS, Kubernetes) • Data Science
Working style • Flexible • Home-working • Office-working • Flexible hours. Team overviews & Projects. Marketplace (Careem’s core platform) Technologies: Java 8, Spring Boot, Redis, AWS, (DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesys, Elastic beanstalk, ECS, Batch …) Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Docker, Python, Scala. Soon to be using: Kotlin or Go, JavaRx or Reactor, Kafka & Kubernetes
Key Projects including:
• Smart Dispatching Finding the best captain for every client in the way which maximizes customer fulfilment and fleet utilization. Essentially it’s the core business logic of Careem.
• Accurate ETA To make a good dispatching decision it’s critical to have most accurate prediction of the travel time between captain and customer. Taking into account city specific, time of the day and traffic, customer and client profiles. For this you will use, 3d part map providers, Open street Maps and build in-house ML models to further increase accuracy.
• Balancing Supply & Demand
In real time balancing the market by adjusting the price depending on supply and demand. E.g. increase pricing during peak hours, when demand is much greater than supply. This also includes recommendations for captains to move them in areas of high demand.
• Efficiency Every city is different, so every product must be tuned in the most optimal way, Manual process is not possible with our scale, thus we need efficient tools to optimize our products for every city. This includes training models, automatic A/B testing. Offline simulation of city dynamics. Another topic here is customer prices and captain earnings – finding the balance which creates a healthy and competitive market. Cycle of work 1) Conceptualize feature of experiment 2) Implement MVP and launch a test in a few of the cities 3) Iterate on the MVP to build the good product 4) Mature, re-architect, refactor and rollout to the full market
Opportunity • Working on the core of Careem on a very difficult and complex problem with instant feedback from the market.
Positions • Backend engineer, Data Scientists, Data Analyst (all levels), Technical Lead, Engineering Manager
Platform team The platform team is dealing with common services the other business areas build on top of and the scalability and reliability of the system. Currently the team consists of about 20 + Engineers (in Berlin) which are separated into 3 different projects which are in active development and we expect even more responsibilities as we continue to grow.
Projects • Related to high availability and scalability of the system a mixture of new development and system enhancements.
Opportunity • Better understanding of how to design and implement systems that scale. Taking decisions that affect the whole engineering organisations.
Positions • Back-end engineers at all levels, Technical Leads, Engineering Managers. Careem Pay team - Berlin This team is working on a payment platform that could be used for Careem or any other company as a payment method. It consists in a Ledger system (such as banks have), wallet and digital payment platforms and for Careem ride hailing a Captain payment platform. In Berlin currently the team has 4 people. The main challenge is build a financial distributed software that keeps the data consistent and is able to handle millions of transactions per day.
• It uses Agile and Scrum ideas with a very collaborative and fun environment. • As for the architecture, we’re implementing as real Event Sourcing, DDD and microservices with functional and reactive implementations.
This team is working on implementing Loyalty business capability and platform that could be used across different verticals (ride hailing, food delivery, wallet etc.). Currently, team consists of 12 people (PM, mobile and backend) and gives a lot of attention to collaboration and understanding user, business and problems we’re trying to solve.
Team is using XP practices TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and
Delivery, Code Reviews while having a strong focus on the quality, meaning Clean Code, Refactoring and technical excellence, since we believe that in order to have speed, quality cannot be sacrificed.
Also, having a Lean mindset in combination with Trunk Based Development (CI) and CD enables us to iterate quickly with our customers on the experiments and hypothesis we’re trying to test in order to find and deliver the value for our users.
As for the architecture, we’re implementing Event Sourcing (scaling to 150 mil events per months) together with CQRS and DDD.
Technologies Java 8, Spring Boot, Android/iOS, AWS infrastructure (Elastic BeanStalk, DynamoDB, SQS), Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Git Web platform The ultimate goal of the web platform team is to grow web development culture in the company. They work on multiple cross-team collaboration initiatives which have been started to eliminate effort duplication and to facilitate code reusability. It’s also planned to use this team to development end-user products, to battle-test and demonstrate current best practices in web development industry.
Projects • @careem/ui-lib (Library of shared front-end UI components, for reusing code across projects and teams) • Careem For Business (web application for corporate administrators, to make it easier for them to manage certain aspects of corporate-specific services, provided by Careem) • Front-End Chapter (Collaboration forum to drive front-end web development culture inside the company
Opportunity To play a key role in defining web development culture inside Careem, as it growth to become an internet company of the region. We want to create a solid base for many projects to come, since we have ambitious plans to extend the number of different services we offer. Members of the team are encouraged to start initiatives, which have significant impact on how web projects are developed in Careem. Front-end/Full stack/UI Working on growth & scalability of our core platform(s) revisiting apps and using evolving technologies for feature development including greenfield projects. Every time we design a new feature we usually end up using new technologies and revamping our architecture to be more reliable, scalable and offer a better end user experience. We’d rather take that little bit of extra time to future proof our work rather revisiting it at a later date. We go through a process of Feature Docs, technical RFCs, Development, Dev Testing, Stating, UAT, Deployment to Production & finally roll out to different cities.
Projects • Captain Portal (Platform used for Captain to access Data on earnings, trips, available hours, acceptance rate, ratings) • Captain Earnings (Platform used for Captains to access data on earnings, trips and available hours, daily, weekly, monthly. Captain Portal V2) • Incentive Inbox (Platform used for Captains to access upcoming and current incentives such as bonuses, guarantees, peaks) • Limo Portal (Platform used by Limo Companies / Vendors to view and manage their fleet and earnings) • Supply Gate (Platform used by applicants wishing to become a Careem Captain)
Opportunity • An opportunity to work with new technologies like React or Progressive Web Apps on the Front End. Work on a cutting edge Backend which is built to scale & take some time out to architect the best possible engineering solutions emerging in the industry to stay a head.
Positions Positions available at all levels across front-end & full-stack Infrastructure engineering Technologies; AWS, Jenkins, Terrafor, Ansible, Saltstack, NewRelic, Prometheus, Sensu, Java Stack, MySQL & Postgres, ElasticCache/Redis, Docker, Kubernetes
Projects • Infrastructure as a code Project to bring all the infrastructure resources under code control • Kubernetes implementation across the board • Dockerization of services • Making CI/CD standard and implement for all microservices
Challenge Taking care of scaling, as the scale of Careem is massive and every feature/tool should keep that in focus.
Positions This is a newly established team we are hiring at all levels.
Communication team This team is working on implementing Communication business capability and platform that could be used across all verticals (ride hailing, food delivery, wallet etc.) and also can also be sold to third parties as a service. Currently the team consists of 5 people (PM and backend) and frontend people are expected to join soon.
• It uses Agile and Scrum ideas with a very collaborative and fun environment. • As for the architecture, we’re implementing as real Microservices with functional and reactive implementations.
Technologies Java 8, Spring Boot, AWS infrastructure (SQS, S3), Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Git, Mustache Template Engine, Push notification infrastructure Careem identity service This is a new forming team which is working on Careem Identity Service. Careem Identity will allow users to use Careem Identity to have access to our Careem ecosystem of products. Careem Identity manages all aspects of user profile such as locations, preferences, active profiles, ACL, loyalty and wallets. Our users can use Careem Identity to pay for gas, send money to family, use his Careem wallet to make Careem rides. We work as a technical partner for our internal teams and external customers where our coding abilities, communication skills, desire to solve complex problems and passion for scale helps us to find a right solutions and build an awesome product.
The team consists of 4 people (PM and engineers) and working on completely new product. Team is using agile ideas with a strong focus on code quality and automation.
Technologies Java 8, Spring Boot, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform
Opportunity To help us push limited of Swift and iOS given our demanding app requirements Android (ADMA App – Android Capt. App). Technologies Android, Java, Kotlin, Realm, Daggar, RxJava2
Team size Berlin 2 (new team forming), Dubai several
Key projects • Architecting core portions of the app business logic, etc • Redesigning the UI • Cleaning up and enhancing code base • Adding new features and enhancing functionality
Challenges Lots of complex architectural problems and challenges
Opportunity Massive ability to drive technical direction and solve major technical problems whilst impacting a huge number of peoples livelihood.
