Head of Engineering - Financial Services Masters Job

About Your Role As Head Of Engineering


Hire outstanding engineering talents and scale our tech team across Europe/Africa
Contribute to the company technical culture and be responsible for the success and personal growth of our engineers
Oversee mobile, front-end and back-end development teams and their projects. Ensure they can deliver their best work by spotting and alleviating blockers, setting IT processes, coaching teammates, and setting the bar for technical excellence
Review architecture of products and suggest improvements
Work with the product team to plan and oversee the execution of the product roadmap and contribute to designing strategies for future developments


About Your Experience


Work experience as a head of engineering, engineer director or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
Successful track record recruiting outstanding tech talents and managing multiple engineering teams
Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces
Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development and in enterprise architecture
Good understanding of agile methodologies
Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
Excellent project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams
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

Yassir is the leading super App for on demand and payment services in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 26 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (+$43M ... read morein funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world including Y Combinator, which is the precursor of the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Doordash, among others.
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.