Senior Software Engineer I - Backend

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.

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

Careem's Marketplace ETA & Routing team sits at the heart of how millions of customers experience our platform. We power the estimated delivery times and routing logic across every Careem vertical — Food, Groceries, Abu Dhabi Taxi, and Hala — from the moment a customer browses a menu to the second their order arrives at the door.

As a Senior Software Engineer I on this team, you will build and maintain the highly reliable backend systems that make real-time ETAs and delivery routing possible at scale. You'll work alongside a tight-knit, backend-focused team of engineers across Jordan, Pakistan, and Dubai, and take ownership of critical infrastructure that directly shapes the customer experience across all of Careem's delivery products.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and robust backend services powering real-time ETA computation and delivery routing across all Careem verticals.
• Write high-quality, performant, and reliable Golang code while delivering complete features and resolving bugs independently.
• Understand functional specifications end-to-end and translate them into production-grade backend solutions.
• Ensure system reliability through rigorous testing practices — unit, integration, and end-to-end — with a reliability-first engineering mindset.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to incidents within defined SLAs, helping to maintain platform uptime and stability.
• Contribute to team agile and engineering practices, and play an active role in their continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with teammates across multiple time zones, contributing to a culture of technical excellence and strong team cohesion.

What You'll Need

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience with Golang or at least one modern object-oriented programming language (Java, C#, C++, Kotlin); Golang is the primary language of our stack.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proven experience operating and deploying changes to live production systems reliably.
• A collaborative, team-first mindset with strong communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with routing systems, ETA computation, or geospatial/logistics domains.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.
• Experience applying software engineering best practices: coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, and testing. Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

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 remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.