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:
- Influence
and contribute to Swvl’s platform & system architecture.
- Drive best
engineering practices within your team and the frontend chapter.
- Work
hands-on in a team.
- Contribute
to the vision and long-term strategy of the frontend chapter.
- Debug and
solve complex issues by translating business problems into technical
solutions.
- Mentor and
teach fellow engineers, and deeply engage with the team on how they can
increase their impact as citizens of Swvl engineering.
- Create
frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, reusable and avoid
surprising outcomes.
- Identify
and solve major architectural problems by going deep in your field or
broad across different teams.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years
of experience developing, shipping and maintaining web applications and
systems.
- BS in
Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical
experience.
- Strong
leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go-to
person, and cross-functional leader
- Excellent
communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical
issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Have
experience in mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams,
fostering best engineering practices.
- Solid
understanding of software design patterns
- HTML/CSS
experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser
compatibility, and accessibility
- Practical
experience with JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous
programming, closures and es6
- Experience
with Typescript is a bonus.
- Strong
experience in developing web applications using React and AngularJS.
- Familiarity
with server side rendering, experience with Next.js is preferred.
- Experience
with browser APIs and optimizing frontend performance (e.g.
code-splitting, three-shaking, lazy loading assets, using CDNs, caching,
compression, etc..)
- Understand
the importance of testing front-end components and has experience with
creating unit and integration tests related to the front-end components
they develop.
- Experience
working with Design Systems is a bonus.
