Senior Mobile Android Engineer
Yassir
Posted Jan 5, 2022
- Full-time
- Product & Tech
Job description
**Yassir** is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in **45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa**. It is backed (~**$200M in funding**) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world.
We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally.
Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
### TASKS
- Design and build mobile applications for Android.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
- Work with the engineering and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
- Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule
### REQUIREMENTS
- **Must have technical skills**
- A minimum of 2 years of experience
- Language: Android, Kotlin
- Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notification
- Web architecture: Rest and restful APIs, micro-services
- Version control: GIT
- **Nice to have technical skills (Strongly advised)**
- Containers: Docker, kubernetes
- Caching, Redis server
- Scaling, Web load balancing
- Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility, on-demand, or fintech space is a plus
- BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
### BENEFITS
- Great compensation and bonuses including stock options.
- Ground floor opportunity with the team; shape the strategic direction of the company
- Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment or in remote
- Paid company holidays
- Full social coverage
### WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN YASSIR
- Join one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North Africa
- Have a lasting impact on our company's culture
- Make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans
- Work on some really hard technical challenges from identity infrastructure for Africans, digital payment networks to complex mapping and routing systems across the continent.
- We are the first Algerian startup to go through Y Combinator program and we’re backed by top investors including Unpopular Ventures, Rebel Fund and [](http://DainTree.VC)