Swvl Hiring for Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Sr. SWE I) – Marketplace Job at Dubai

About Us

Swvl (A publicly listed entity in NASDAQ) is a transformative tech-enabled mobility platform based in Dubai that enhances the safety, reliability, and convenience of mass transit in some of the world’s most challenging and complex emerging markets.

It is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the $1tn global mass transit market opportunity with daily commuting, inter-city retail travel, and TaaS transportation solutions. Swvl currently operates in 135 cities across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

The differentiated proprietary technology stack features dynamic routing and pricing for both driver supply and customer demand; smart assignment technology that optimizes the driver experience.

Our main goal is not just to facilitate commuting, but a hunger to strive for solutions, encourage the contribution of youth in innovation, and inspire change.

We are looking for an engaged and enthusiastic Engineers to join our team of talented engineers that share a common interest in distributed systems, their scalability and continued development.

About Marketplace Tribe:

Marketplace is the platform that connects customers and captains. Our goal is to be reliable, profitable, and scalable. We do this by focusing on ETAs (Estimated Time of Arrivals), pricing, dispatching, support multiple choices of rides, and the network’s efficient coverage growth.

What you will be doing:

• Influence and contribute to Swvl’s platform & system architecture.
• Drive best engineering practices within your team and the frontend chapter.
• Work hands-on in a squad.
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy of the frontend chapter.
• Debug and solve complex issues by translating business problems into technical solutions.
• Mentor and teach fellow engineers, and deeply engage with the team on how they can increase their impact as citizens of Swvl engineering.
• Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, reusable, and avoid surprising outcomes.

What you will need:

• 4+ years of experience developing, shipping, and maintaining web applications and systems.
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go-to person, and cross-functional leader.
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Have experience in mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, fostering best engineering practices.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns.
• HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• Practical experience with JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, and ES6.
• Experience developing websites with SEO and accessibility best practices.
• Strong experience in developing web applications using React.
• Experience with browser APIs and optimizing frontend performance (e.g. code-splitting, three-shaking, lazy loading assets, using CDNs, caching, compression, etc..)
• Understand the importance of testing front-end components and has experience with creating unit and integration tests related to the front-end components they develop.
• Familiarity with server-side rendering, experience with Next.js is preferred.
• Experience working with Design Systems is a bonus.
• Experience with Typescript is a bonus.
• Movie geeks, experienced gamers, bookworms, petrol heads, and melophiles are all welcome.

So if you think you have what it takes, then it would be awesome to meet you!