Calling senior technology leaders to shape the future of engineering in the Middle East!

Are you a senior tech leader with deep roots in the Middle East, looking for a way to bring your global experience back to the region? Have you been considering a move, driven by a desire to make a lasting impact?

At Careem, our journey started with a simple purpose: to simplify and improve the lives of people in the Greater Middle East. From our beginnings as a ride-hailing service, we’ve grown into the region’s first Everything App, but our mission remains the same. We’re not just a tech company; we’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers, working to create a better future for our region.

We’re looking to connect with senior tech professionals like you. If you’ve built and scaled complex engineering systems, platforms, or infrastructure in high-growth tech environments, we want to hear from you. Your expertise is exactly what’s needed to shape the future of engineering culture and technical foundations in the region.

We’re particularly interested in leaders who:

• Lead Internal Engineering Initiatives: 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 Java, 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 & Strategic Influence: Shape roadmaps and drive technical decisions with a product-centric mindset, ensuring solutions directly impact customer and business outcomes.

• Technical Excellence & Culture: Uphold high standards in code quality, system design, testing, and operational excellence while nurturing a strong engineering culture across MENA.

• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers across teams, foster continuous learning, and grow technical leadership capacity within the organization.

• Efficiency and Automation: Streamline workflows and reduce toil through automation in CI/CD, observability, and configuration management.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with platform, 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

This is your chance to use your skills and experience to truly make a difference. We are creating an Everything App that will have a massive positive impact on our communities. We're creating income opportunities for our Captains and simplifying daily life for our customers.

This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to lead a mission that matters.

Ready to shape the future of the Middle East?

About the Team:

Part of Careem NextGen Team, the mission of the program is to train the new Analysts to build Analytical excellence foundations with high standards. You will have access to some of the most exciting projects and advanced tech for accelerated learning and exposure, leveraging modern analysis and visualization tools to solve the region’s day to day problems.

The Careem Analytics team’s mission is to build and track the full lively picture for Careem businesses and experiences, uphold the experience bar, provide actionable insights, formulate problems and contribute to solving them. 

Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, and analyze structured and unstructured data from various internal and external sources.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports to track KPIs and business performance.
• Work with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, and operations) to understand data needs and deliver actionable insights.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• Support experimentation (A/B testing) and data-driven decision-making.
• Write SQL queries and use analytical tools to extract, transform, and analyze data efficiently.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline recurring analytical tasks, improve data workflows, and enhance productivity.
• Explore opportunities to integrate AI-assisted insights (e.g., anomaly detection, trend forecasting, text summarization) into dashboards and reports.
• Document data definitions, methodologies, and analysis processes.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and accuracy in reporting systems.
• Present findings clearly through visualizations and storytelling to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
• 0–2 years of experience as a Data Analyst or in a similar analytical role.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in at least one analytical language (Python or R).
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience in analytical libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy, SciPy).
• Hands-on experience with BI and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or Metabase).
• Understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and database concepts.
• Basic knowledge of statistics and hypothesis testing.
• Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) and an understanding of how to apply them to automate analyses, improve data exploration, and enhance decision-making.
• Curiosity to experiment with emerging AI capabilities for workflow optimization and insight generation.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain insights effectively.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical curiosity, and a bias for driving measurable impact.
• Experience with version control (Git) and data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) is a plus.

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.

About the Role

This role sits at the core of Careem's NextGen program, our initiative to grow the next generation of engineers across the organization. This isn't just about writing code; it’s about reimagining how we build. We are looking for AI-native engineers—problem-solvers who leverage AI to automate the mundane, architect scalable systems at lightning speed, and focus their human intellect on high-level design.

As a Senior Software Engineer I in the Central Engineering team, you are a force multiplier. You don’t just deliver features; you set the standard for how they are delivered. You will bridge the gap between complex requirements and elegant, AI-augmented implementations, owning large components of our ecosystem and relentlessly driving excellence through automation.

What You'll Do

• AI-Driven Development: Lead by example in using AI tools (Claude Code, LLMs, automated agents) to accelerate the entire SDLC—from rapid prototyping to automated testing and documentation.
• Ownership: Design, develop, and maintain complex, full-stack features, owning the lifecycle of your services—from initial system design and API contracts to deployment and on-call support.
• System Architecture: Contribute significantly to system design discussions, evolving patterns to ensure our microservices are scalable, decoupled, and resilient.
• Quality & Mentorship: Maintain a high bar for code quality through deep code reviews. Actively mentor Software Engineers (I & II), fostering a culture of AI-first thinking.
• Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident post-mortems, and build "self-healing" systems with automated monitoring.

What You'll Need

• Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of shipping high-scale distributed systems.
• The AI-First Mindset: You have integrated AI tools into your daily workflow to increase velocity and code quality.
• Technical Stack: Proficiency in modern backend languages (Go, Java, or Node.js) and a deep understanding of React and TypeScript on the frontend.
• Distributed Systems: Advanced knowledge of REST/gRPC, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and both SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Deep familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to own your infrastructure on AWS.
• Bonus Points: Experience building/integrating AI agents or LLM wrappers, and a history of contributing to open-source projects or tech blogs.

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. 
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.
• This role is open to be hired in Karachi and Lahore

Calling senior technology leaders to shape the future of engineering in the Middle East!

Are you a senior tech leader with deep roots in the Middle East, looking for a way to bring your global experience back to the region? Have you been considering a move, driven by a desire to make a lasting impact?

At Careem, our journey started with a simple purpose: to simplify and improve the lives of people in the Greater Middle East. From our beginnings as a ride-hailing service, we’ve grown into the region’s first Everything App, but our mission remains the same. We’re not just a tech company; we’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers, working to create a better future for our region.

We’re looking to connect with senior tech professionals like you. If you’ve built and scaled complex engineering systems, platforms, or infrastructure in high-growth tech environments, we want to hear from you. Your expertise is exactly what’s needed to shape the future of engineering culture and technical foundations in the region.

We’re particularly interested in leaders who:

• Lead Internal Engineering Initiatives: 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 Java, 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 & Strategic Influence: Shape roadmaps and drive technical decisions with a product-centric mindset, ensuring solutions directly impact customer and business outcomes.

• Technical Excellence & Culture: Uphold high standards in code quality, system design, testing, and operational excellence while nurturing a strong engineering culture across MENA.

• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers across teams, foster continuous learning, and grow technical leadership capacity within the organization.

• Efficiency and Automation: Streamline workflows and reduce toil through automation in CI/CD, observability, and configuration management.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with platform, 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

This is your chance to use your skills and experience to truly make a difference. We are creating an Everything App that will have a massive positive impact on our communities. We're creating income opportunities for our Captains and simplifying daily life for our customers.

This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to lead a mission that matters.

Ready to shape the future of the Middle East?