Overview
Bykea’s mission is to bring improvements in movements of people, parcels and payments in Pakistan and to do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Position Specific Overview:
Frontend Engineers at Bykea build and own innovative web applications using advanced JavaScript, React and Sass, with a desire to achieve exceptional design fidelity, usability, accessibility, and performance across both desktop and mobile browsers.

Projects will require close collaboration with other teams and orgs, working closely with creative and product designers, other engineers and stakeholders. These projects may occur simultaneously, so you must be able to juggle multiple concurrent initiatives. We will also expect you to champion sound frontend standards to engineers, designers, and management.

Job Role – This position will be tasked with these main objectives:

• Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results
• Help define the team roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Evangelize appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and occasionally give internal or external tech talks
• Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactor)
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Go home knowing that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Bykea driver and customer
• Analyzes scope of alternative solutions and makes decisions about area implementation based on his/her experience and technical expertise.
• Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plans.
• Write clean, reusable, high quality code following industry best practice and pay close attention to UX and visual details in product delivery.
• Take part of technical design discussions to identify and document the pros & cons of different approaches.

Requirements – What you roughly look like as a professional:

Experience & Qualifications:

• Must have 5+ years of software engineering industry experience in frontend web development
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design

Skillset:

• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React
• Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer)
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work

Personality:

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities and work independently with minimal to no supervision
• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means

Other Details:

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Joining: ASAP
• Location: Karachi/Islamabad/Lahore
• No of vacancies: Multiple openings ranging from Mid to Senior level

Overview
Bykea’s mission is to create a marketplace that can constantly bring improvements in movement of people, parcels and payments in Pakistan and to do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can do business independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s change Pakistan together.

Position Specific Overview:
Bykea is looking for a strong Sr. Software Engineer to join its engineering team that is constantly building new products on our super app to provide the best quality service to the customers on a single application. Surrounded by engineers passionate about front end, backend and computer science in general, you will exponentially grow your technical skills as well as have a huge impact on the overall business and millions of customers in Pakistan.

Job Role – This position will be tasked with these main objectives:

• Build solutions using your strong background in distributed systems, and large scale database systems.
• Research, analyze, design, develop and test the solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews and project related team meetings.
• Work with other engineers, Architecture, Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to development principles and product goals.
• Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and come up with novel ways to solve them.
• Design and implement scalable web service APIs.

Requirements – What you roughly look like as a professional:

Experience & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software design and development experience, solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, Web Services, design patterns and software design.
• Risk domain expertise is a major plus.
• Excellent decision-making, communication and collaboration skills.

Skillset:

• Excellent knowledge of architecture and design patterns, open source platforms, frameworks, technologies and software engineering methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in Node.JS, CubeJs, Relational Databases, NoSql databases, REST, Event Source, Web Sockets, HTML5, CSS3, RWD, JQuery is highly desirable.
• Experience with big data solutions such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Kafka, Storm etc. is a major plus.

Personality:

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities and work independently with minimal to no supervision
• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and / or visual means

Other Details:

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Joining: ASAP
• Location: Karachi/Islamabad/Lahore
• No. of vacancies: Multiple openings ranging from Mid to Senior level

Overview

Bykea is a Pakistan based app offering motorbike transport, deliveries, commerce and payment matchmaking services on its marketplace platform. Over 2 million registered users drive utility from Bykea in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi.

Position Specific Overview:

We are looking for a Software Architect to manage teams of developers working on cutting edge technologies to bring web and mobile applications to life. You will have ownership for partnering with stakeholders to shape the roadmap and provide engineering thought leadership. You will nurture and manage a team of engineers and be responsible for their performance and be a trailblazer for the team’s culture.

You will be responsible for making sure that deliveries are predictable, at high quality and maintainable in the long run. You will form relationships with other Engineering Leaders across the organization and find opportunities for cross-functional partnership and leveraging existing capabilities. You will manage the flow of timely information both up and down the chain of participation. You need to be passionate about front end technologies but still be an expert in our full tech stack.

Responsibilities:

• Manage teams of high-performing engineers delivering innovative solutions from design to release across multiple platforms
• Lead and participate in design, development and release of a standardized stack of services across the company
• Work in concert with our leadership team to set and execute high-level engineering strategy
• Ensure strong communication and feedback integration between Engineering and the rest of the company
• Foster a culture of autonomy, ownership and innovation across the team
• Recruit, mentor and develop premier teams of engineers
• Bringing a consumer-facing mobile application to market
• Work closely with the company leaders including the technical founder, product, and marketing to strategically build the company
• Work creatively to further improve development processes
• Negotiate architectural and implementation decisions with the development team, and be the facilitator in those discussions to ensure everyone is heard and the best decision is made
• Strong people management skills — you are skilled at proactively uncovering and solving people issues, and take great pride in it

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience developing large-scale, customer-facing websites, mobile applications and transaction processing systems. Ideally starting as an individual contributor writing code, then transitioning to senior management roles
• 6+ years of experience managing engineering teams leveraging lean/agile methodologies with high scale products
• Experienced in multiple full stack environments and frameworks i.e. Node.js, Angular.js, Python, React.js, Elasticsearch, Redis, Salesforce, MySql, MongoDB, iOS and Android
• Hands-on experience working on one or more front end technologies – Web, Android or iOS – and understand their nuances
• Proficiency in OOP, including design patterns and frameworks. Experience with functional programming is a plus
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• We primarily use Node.js, Angular.js, Python, Kotlin, Swift and Java. Familiarity with two or more is a plus
• Thorough understanding of enterprise architecture including networking systems, database optimizations, API integrations, and deployment methodologies
• Strong communicator who can simplify technical concepts for non-technical partners, and explain business needs to the tech team in a way that inspires and guides them
• Proven technology leadership. Strong written and presentation skills. Excellent interpersonal skills and self-discipline
• Masters / Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• A commitment to writing understandable, maintainable, and reusable software. Knowledge of microservices is also required
• Strong knowledge of open source Operating Systems is strongly desired (Linux, Android, etc.)
• Embraces and has experience with Agile Product Development Methodology
• Startup experience is a huge plus

Get to know the Role

• Deep, hands-on programming and technical design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new technologies quickly
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful web services and/or customer experiences efficiently and with quality
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done
• Ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including to senior leadership
• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment
• Burning desire to build magical experiences for our customers

The must haves:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering or have similar experience
• Have a track record of designing, developing and implementing complex, low-latency, and preferably transaction-based/B2C, mobile applications and/or web services with over one million users
• Significant experience as a successful software development leader in large scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications. Experience working for a start-up or scale-up is preferred
• Experience leading large teams of engineers and driving large-scale projects and products, in collaboration with product, design and commercial teams, to succeed
• Your experience may be in mobile engineering, full-stack, back-end, architecture and infrastructure, web services and tooling
• Able to attract, develop, and keep high quality multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong communication skills and can act as an advisor, coach, mentor, and
• partner all at the same time

Other Details:

• Employment Type: Full-time/Permanent
• Location: Karachi
• Joining: Immediate