Udrive is the First Car Sharing company in the Middle East. Our service innovation provides short-term car rentals, with our entire fleet of cars accessible through our Smartphone App. Licensed by Dubai RTA, we enable a solution that addresses increasing car demands, higher energy costs and limited parking slots, while reducing the negative impacts of private vehicle ownership.
Role Summary / Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager, you will work on our next generation car sharing platform to create a smooth and easy ordering experience for our customers.
If you are a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an exciting workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Dubai!
Core Responsibilities:
● Alongside your team counterparts (product, design, data), understand your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy to drive desired outcomes
● Lead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize and discover, innovate, implement, deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions
● Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a hyper-growing, highly competitive economic environment
● Guide your team in creation of software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches, taking into account non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Udrive services in line with our internal engineering standards.
● Guide your team’s discovery, planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers in small batches
The following experience is relevant to us:
● 5+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming and Continuous Refactoring)
● Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
● 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
● Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers
● Ability to transfer knowledge via mentoring and coaching
● Strong stakeholder skills and dependency management via proactive communication
● Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
● Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and continuous deployment
● Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs
● Strong understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
● Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech
● Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
● Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
● Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security standards
● We are moving to a AWS/C#/Go stack, experience with this stack is a plus but not a requirement.
Benefits:
Working within Udrive means access to world’s leading perks and benefits, including:
● Dynamic & innovative environment
● Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of car sharing services in the region
● Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams
● Visa and self-Medical insurance provided by the Company
● Paid annual leave of 30 days per year