Senior IC Backend Engineer — AI & Scalable Systems

Careem; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Fitness reimbursements

Remote work worldwide 30 days/year

Unlimited vacation

4-day in-office, 1 day remote

Job summary

Careem is seeking a senior technology leader in the Middle East who will stay hands-on—writing code, designing systems, and leading through technical depth, not through headcount management.

You will architect backend platforms, apply data/AI innovations, and shape roadmaps to deliver scalable solutions across mobility and fintech. This role emphasizes practical impact and collaboration in a fast-growing regional environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on, individual-contributor leadership role — not a people-management position.
• You still write code, designs systems, and lead through technical depth.
• Experience scaling complex engineering systems in high-growth tech environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Internal Engineering Initiatives: Personally design and build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that accelerate engineering productivity and reliability across Careem.
• Architect Scalable Solutions: Define system architecture for complex backend systems with a focus on performance, modularity, and extensibility, leveraging deep expertise in Golang and modern platforms.
• Drive Impact in Data & AI: Apply machine learning, platformization, and agentic AI innovation to unlock new capabilities and improve customer experiences at scale.
• Product Mindset & Technical Influence: Shape roadmaps and drive technical decisions with a product-centric mindset, ensuring solutions directly impact customer and business outcomes.
• Technical Excellence & Culture: Set the bar for code quality, system design, testing, and operational excellence by writing and reviewing production code, and by example rather than management.
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers as a peer through pairing, code review, and design discussions, growing technical capability across the organization without formal reporting lines.
• Efficiency and Automation: Streamline workflows and reduce toil through automation in CI/CD, observability, and configuration management.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with other platforms, infrastructure, product, and security teams to deliver robust and aligned solutions.
• Long-term Vision & Purpose: Contribute to Careem’s mission of shaping the future of mobility, fintech, and everyday services in the region by building lasting technical foundations, hands-on.

Skills

Golang

System architecture

Backend systems

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Careem is seeking a senior technology leader in the Middle East who will stay hands-on—writing code, designing systems, and leading through technical depth, not through headcount management.

You will architect backend platforms, apply data/AI innovations, and shape roadmaps to deliver scalable solutions across mobility and fintech. This role emphasizes practical impact and collaboration in a fast-growing regional environment.