Staff Backend Engineer - Financial Services

Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (~$200M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.

About the Role

As a Backend Staff 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 the role

Key Responsibilities

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 Improving 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 to products and problems

Assess and write code to improve or extend application

Manage and assist current software applications

Experience providing technical leadership, and mentoring others

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in backend engineering with NodeJS

Strong foundation in programming fundamentals

Database: Mongodb or other.

Framework: Nest j.s.

Web architecture: Rest and restful APIs, micro-services

Substantial experience with Git in a team environment

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

Excellent communication skills

Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals

Solid understanding of X

Experience writing testable code and unit tests

Have a deep knowledge of React JS and NodeJS, and you have experience developing products with it

Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting

Extensive experience with A/B experiments and have a data-driven attitude toward product development

At Yassir, we believe in the power of diversity and the importance of an inclusive culture. So, if you're ready to bring your unique perspective and experiences to the table, then we're excited to listen.

Don't just apply for a job, come and be a part of our journey. Let's create a better tomorrow together.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Best of luck, Your Yassir TA Team

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