Job Vacancies at Yassir

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.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Staff Backend Engineer (NodeJS/Go)

Job Location: Nigeria (Remote)

About The Role

• As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the technical standards for the Backend in our Last Mile Delivery domain.
• You will work closely with multiple squads within the domain to provide technical leadership in areas such as tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycles.
• Your role will also involve mentoring junior developers and contributing to the scaling up of Backend engineers in multiple squads.
• This will include conducting technical interviews to identify and onboard talented engineers.

About Your Role As Staff Engineer, Backend (Nodejs)

• Design, build, and maintain features for domain applications
• Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Support and help grow domain team members by helping them with technical blockers
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve efficiency
• Participate in architecture and design discussions
• Strongly contribute to building the technical roadmap
• Conduct technical interviews
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Owner of these projects:

• Conduct feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
• Draft and submit intellectual property
• Conduct research and assess current technologies
• Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications
• Apply technical and domain expertise to products and problems
• Assess and write code to improve or extend applications
• Manage and provide assistance for current software applications
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to others.

About Your Experience

• Solid backend engineering experience with Node.js and Go
• Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven problem-solving abilities and a willingness to help others achieve their goals
• Extensive experience with Git in a team environment
• Proficiency in writing testable code and unit tests
• Bonus: Experience in a fast-growing startup in the on-demand services industry
• Extensive experience with A/B experiments and a data-driven approach to product development.

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2.) Senior Product Manager - LMD

Job Location: Lagos

About The Role

• We are looking for an experienced product manager to join our Super App and Last Mile Delivery product.
• You will join the team that leads and owns the Product vision and roadmap for Yassir Super App products.
• If you possess unparalleled strategic thinking, big picture person, business acumen, you are obsessed with customer jobs-to-be-done, and you are detailed-oriented, then we are looking for you!

About your role

• Work with customers to understand jobs to be done and design user journeys
• Develop user stories translating business requirements into specifications the design and tech team can act upon
• Own the product roadmap and oversee its execution while balancing requirements across products and countries
• Contribute to the company culture and be responsible for the success and personal growth of our product managers
• Contribute to the company's overall strategy working closely with the engineering, data, and operations teams
• Manage the different stakeholders across countries and products

About Your Experience And Skills

• BSc / MSc in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, Design or relevant field.
• 3-5 years of experience as a product manager or in a similar senior-level position
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Experience in product planning using OKRs, and execution in Agile methodologies, and industry standard product discovery methodologies and tools
• Excellent project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams
• Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility, on-demand, or delivery space is a plus.

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3.) Senior Mobile iOS Engineer (Last Mile Delivery)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time (Hybrid)
Category: Product & Tech – Last Mile Delivery

About the Role

• In this role, you will be part of our engineering team, working with a high quality code base and the latest tools, where you will promote your skills to be an expert in complex frontend development in iOS (swift and swiftUI) native platforms.
• Your primary focus will be development of mobile applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Therefore, a commitment to a highly dynamic environment, where root cause analysis and rapid collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are required.

Tasks

• Design and build mobile applications for iOS.
• 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

• Candidates should possess a B.Sc / M.Sc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
• Must have technical skills with at least 5 years of experience
• Language: iOS (swift) native
• 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

Benefits

• 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

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 DainTree.VC

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