Job description

At Quiqup, we're changing the E-commerce landscape in the MENA region to the next level of the digital economy; an upgrade to Q-commerce. Providing access, learning, resources and technology to all merchants be it small sized, medium sized and large enterprises to faster serve their customers. Just as the F&B industry got disrupted with immediate on-demand deliveries - until it became the norm, we are on a mission to touch and disrupt every consumer facing industry including and not limited to beauty, fashion, pharma and consumer electronics. We will help established businesses online move from 1-2 days delivery lead times, to a delivery within 60 minute. We will also help offline businesses enter the Q-commerce world through a full service proposition and equip them to compete in the digital world. We aim to open the Q-commerce world to all and add value across the spectrum. We’re transforming the way goods are traded, how they are moved around our streets, for better cities, better business and all round better living.

About the role:

We’re solving a problem that has yet to be solved in an efficient and elegant way. We’re looking for talented and innovative Engineers to bring the best technology approaches to solve the challenges put in front of us. We operate an agile development team who obsess over rapid, high quality feature delivery.

The Role:

• Working directly with the CTO, Head of Data and Head of Product

• You will be a well rounded solution provider, a polyglot who will be able to work on Devops, Backend and Frontend capacity to support the direction of the business.

• You will work as part of a small team where your ideas have direct and meaningful impact on the immediate growth of the business.

• You will work smart to deliver impact and value at every opportunity

• You will actively question the work you are doing if you do not understand the business value or believe there is a better way!

• You will develop a firm grasp on the business strategy and the market

• You will own large components, systems, or projects, coordinating and communicating with teams and leads across the organisation.

• You will design solutions to high complexity problems, with high-availability and high-reliability in mind.

• You will instigate design discussions and facilitate engineering-wide learning.

• You will represent engineering across the organisation.

• You will be the primary driver of resolving production issues, holding post-mortems, and owning long-term fixes.

• You will take on independent greenfield projects with an eye to furthering the products and services of the organisation.

• You help decide when it is appropriate to spike or create an MVP in order to ensure we learn quickly, and can rally the team around the appropriate trade-offs needed to do so.

• You are actively pushing back on over-engineered solutions. Conversely, you are advocating for improving under-implemented solutions.

• You are quick to revisit past assumptions - the solution that worked 'then' may not be the right solution for 'now.'

• You help determine team goals, KPIs, and projects necessary to deliver on those goals / measure KPIs.

• You are a picture of responsibility and accountability. The organisation depends on you.

• You play a key role in hiring and promoting the organisation as an employer.

Technical Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of Elixir or other functional languages

• Excellent understanding of popular libraries such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Express

• Excellent understanding of Restful APIs, GraphQL and Websockets

Advantageous:

• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design

• Knowledge of Event Sourcing

• Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, AWS, GCP, GKE

• Web security and best practises

• The ability to think through the Open Systems Interconnection model

• Understand the value of layered / modular architecture

• A desire to create maintainable enterprise grade systems that can scale in complexity over time, whilst not over complicating early

Culture fit and background:

No Ego

We’re here to find the best solutions to the problems, no matter where they come from, it could be the most Junior or Senior member of the team. Embrace failure! learn and evolve.

Speed, Speed, Speed

We're in a battle to succeed, we have to push ourselves every day to meet our goal. Are you willing to sweat with the rest of us into the night to kill a bug that escapes to production, or push that extra mile to deliver a feature within the sprint deadline?

Be your authentic self

Be yourself always, if you are having a bad day, don’t be afraid to show it. Use your personal qualities to bring your uniqueness to the team, draw on your own experiences and ways of thinking to bring a different view to the table.

Quiqup and our customers always come first

We don’t just build features to be proud of with each other about elegant solutions. We build solutions for our clients and their customers. Our stakeholders should always be top of mind, we want to deliver the best UX in the industry, delight our customers, and always make sure we are developing the next thing to keep them amazed.

What's in it for you?

• You will be working on some of the most exciting and rewarding problems available to engineers.

• You will have the opportunity to find paths that you want to follow, pitching ideas to the team which could be developed as soon as the next sprint.

• You will be able to directly work with business stakeholders from the couriers all the way through to CEO

• The potential to build something transformational

• The chance to do something you’ll tell stories about

• An independent and autonomous company culture

• An invitation to make an impact from Day 1

• An international and diverse group of people

• And the usual stuff- competitive compensation package, stock options Medical insurance, Insurance , office dogs, healthy (and not so healthy!) snacks