Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
What You'll Do
- Build a world-class team. Push your team to hone their craft, communicate expectations clearly, and build high trust through regular feedback.
- Drive world-class results. Prioritize mission-critical work, set aggressive timelines, and ensure the best ideas win by fostering an environment where all ideas are challenged.
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance data pipelines and ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into our data warehouse or data lake.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to data quality, data consistency, and data integrity, ensuring the reliability and correctness of our data systems.
- Implement and maintain data governance practices and policies, ensuring compliance with data privacy and security regulations.
- Document data engineering processes, data flows, and system architectures to ensure knowledge sharing and maintain an up-to-date repository of technical documentation.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and infrastructure teams, to optimize data infrastructure and ensure its seamless integration with other systems.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role, working with large-scale data processing and ETL pipelines.
- Experience managing a team for more than 2+ years.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Scala, with experience in data manipulation and processing frameworks like Apache Spark.
- Experience with SQL and database technologies (e.g., relational databases, SQL queries, data modeling).
- Familiarity with data integration and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and experience with data warehousing solutions is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data-related issues and propose effective solutions.
What we’ll provide you
We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:
- Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
- Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
- Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
- Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.