Senior Software Engineering Manager

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires.
Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.

About the Role

You will lead the Marketplace Matching team of amazing engineers located across different engineering sites. The Marketplace Matching team is serving Careem Rides, Food, Groceries and Express verticals by taking an optimum decision to match mobility supply and demand. You will partner with engineering leaders across Careem to ensure alignment about engineering challenges and opportunities.

Key responsibilities include

• Lead a team of software engineers in implementing high quality services including design, development, and deployment of new business functionality.
• Build processes to make sure the team deliver effectively and efficiently
• Enhance the ways of working with in the team
• Collaborate with Product manager, Data scientist to deliver on the product roadmap
• Allocate available resources to meet operating objectives. Interacts with direct reports, customers and peers to share information and improve cross-departmental processes
• Assist your teams in developing roadmaps for system and product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth
• Strong ability to coach developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
• Experience solving large-scale engineering challenges
• Encourages and supports others to take on responsibility, authority, and accountability

Qualifications

• You have strong software engineering skills with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and OOP
• Working knowledge of at least one of these Java, GO, Python, Kotlin
• Deep understanding of how to build scalable distributed systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• You’ll have several years of serving in either an engineering management role
• Demonstrate ability to run and improve technical development processes
• Relevant experience in logistics marketplace matching including but not limited to cost function, platformization, batching and pooling

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