Senior Back-End Engineer (Node j.s) "Financial Service"

Team: Financial Services

Location: Cairo, Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

About the role

As a Backend Senior Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain. You will lead Backend engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle. You will mentor junior developers. You will contribute to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews.

About your role as “Senior Back-end Engineer”

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 improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality

Draft and submit intellectual property

Research and assess current technologies

Develop and execute complex, multi-tier, distributed software search applications

Create technical and domain expertise and apply it to products and problems

Assess and write code to improve or extend the application

Manage and assist current software applications

Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring others

About your experience

BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field.
Minimum 6 years of experience in a similar role
Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Highly organized, creative and critical thinker
Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
Must have technical skills:
Language: Node.Js.
Database: Mongodb or other.
Framework: Express.js & Nest j.s.
Web architecture: Rest and restful APIs, micro-services
Master source version control: GIT
Containers: Docker, kubernetes
Caching, Redis server
Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility, on-demand or fintech space is a plus
Web load balancing
Scaling 
OS administration
Encryption : https//, digital signing

Why you should join Yassir

😎 You will be part of one of the first Algerian startups to go through the Y Combinator program and one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North Africa. We are current in +60 cities (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Senegal)
💸 Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company
🚉 Subsidized public transit pass
🤙🏽Have a lasting impact on our company's culture
🚀 Perfect timing with renowned investors to build something great
📈 Extremely steep learning curve with own responsibility and intensive guidance
💯 Make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans