Backend Software Engineer (SWEII) - Supply

About Us

Swvl is a revolutionary idea that was born from passion, loyalty, and persistence to face all challenges that come our way. It started with an observation turning into a realization; too many cars on the streets, wasting our limited resources: time, space, and money.In 4 years Swvl became the first 1.5 billion unicorn in the Middle East to list on NASDAQ and currently the 2nd best-funded startup in the MENA region. With a presence and operations in up to 10 countries worldwide and a vision to be active on 6 continents.Our main goal is not just to facilitate commuting, but a hunger to strive for solutions, encourage the contribution of youth in innovation, and inspire change.

We are looking for an engaged and enthusiastic Engineer to join our team of talented engineers that share a common interest in distributed systems, their scalability and continued development.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide.
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and mentor Junior Software Engineers in understanding coding standards, tools, and best practices to help their growth and our team’s overall success.
• Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around developer and engineering productivity and velocity.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code using Node/GO/ Scala
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Comfortable in building and scaling systems in a growing services infrastructure. You are driven to improve performance, enhance code quality, and establish best practices for your team.

Qualifications:

• You are an enthusiastic engineer that is more than comfortable writing Node.JS, JAVA, Python, Go, or Scala.
• 1-3 Years of Experience in Software Development.
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Knowledge of different datastores
• Experience with caching systems
• Experience with software ci/cd systems
• Experience with multi-threading and memory management
• Experience with microservice architecture