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Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building scalable backend systems and distributed microservices across fintech, food tech, travel, and banking. Responsible for translating complex product requirements into well-architected technical solutions to high-quality delivery.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote

Hello, my name is Mohammad Rahum Saeed, and I’m currently working as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Careem. I have over 6 years of experience in talent acquisition, primarily focused on hiring across Data, AI, Engineering, Product, and corporate functions throughout Pakistan, the Middle East, and Europe. Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to lead full-cycle recruitment for high-growth tech environments, partner closely with business leaders, and build strong talent pipelines across multiple regions, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Europe. My expertise includes strategic sourcing, stakeholder management, employer branding, and improving recruitment processes through data-driven and AI-powered solutions. I’ve also worked extensively on university hiring programs, interviewer training initiatives, and scaling engineering teams in competitive markets. What excites me most about recruitment is the opportunity to connect exceptional talent with meaningful career opportunities while helping businesses grow through strong hiring strategies. I’m passionate about creating positive candidate experiences, building long-term relationships, and continuously evolving recruitment processes to make them more efficient, inclusive, and impactful.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote, Pakistan, KSA

Experienced Senior Backend Engineer based in Dubai with 12+ years of expertise in building scalable distributed systems for fintech and B2C platforms. Currently working at [BOTIM](https://botim.me?utm_source=chatgpt.com), leading backend services for collections and mortgage workflow management. Previously worked at [Careem](https://www.careem.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com), where he helped build large-scale checkout and payment solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and ReactJS. Skilled in Java, Go, microservices architecture, cloud-native systems, and high-throughput backend engineering, with a strong focus on resilience, scalability, and product impact. Outside of work, Zubayr enjoys traveling, padel, and badminton.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Abu Dhabi

I have automate the working files excel for Merch SKU Rankings based on which whole merch events are running

🎯 Open to: Remote

Data professional with 5+ years spanning product analytics and data engineering-adjacent roles, open to work for a diversified Data Engineering/Analytics role. Brings a rare combination of strong SQL, hands-on ETL and data modeling experience, and deep business context from working at the intersection of data infrastructure and product, including Data Mart architecture, event pipeline instrumentation, and semantic layer engineering at a high-scale FinTech platform. Understands what downstream consumers need from data, which translates into better-designed, more reliable pipelines. Actively upskilling in orchestration (Airflow, dbt) and cloud-native data infrastructure.

🎯 Open to: Karachi, Remote, Anywhere

Abdul Baseer

Senior Software Engineer

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in architecting and delivering high-scale distributed systems in the fintech domain. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to ship company-wide features processing millions of transactions daily. Deep expertise in Java microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and payment systems across the full software lifecycle.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Riyadh, Europe, Remote

I’m a Product Designer with ~4 years of experience across Careem, MakeMyTrip, and PwC, designing high-scale web and mobile app experiences for consumer and enterprise platforms. At Careem, I worked on captain experiences through on-ground user research and early-stage product exploration. Previously at MakeMyTrip, I contributed to 34% YoY traffic growth and a 4% conversion uplift through data-driven UX improvements and experimentation. My work focuses on accessibility, systems thinking, user research, and building intuitive, scalable experiences in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Remote, India

Accomplished Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience specializing in high-performance mobile architecture and Server-Driven UI (SDUI). Proven track record in building scalable SDKs and optimizing complex CI/CD pipelines to drive efficiency in Super App ecosystems like Careem. Expert in Kotlin, Swift, and KMM, with a deep focus on modularization, performance refactoring, and robust automated testing suites.

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

Project and Operations Engineer with 7+ years of experience, including working with Careem on micro-mobility infrastructure and operations projects across the UAE. Experienced in project coordination, stakeholder management, electrical systems, and network optimization within fast-paced environments. Currently exploring international opportunities.

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

I have 17years working experience in Identity and Access management (IAM) in both financial and tech industries under Information security domain

🎯 Open to: Abu Dhabi, Remote

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed microservices across fintech, food-tech, travel, and banking domains. Strong background in Go, Java, cloud-native architectures, and event-driven systems, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional delivery across global teams.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote

I have 10+ years of Cloud, SRE, and Platform Engineering experience at Careem (Uber Inc.), where I deploy and operate microservice applications on AWS EKS using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD, and build CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions. I own the observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic) and the full reliability lifecycle — alerting, incident response, GitOps deployments, and canary releases — across a large-scale customer-facing SaaS platform.

Looking for new opportunities as call center manager

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

Growth and merchandising expert with 5+ years in e-commerce across noon and Careem, specialising in onsite strategy, campaign operations, and AI-driven personalization. Built growth strategy frameworks and merchandising processes from the ground up, creating measurable commercial impact across quick commerce and marketplace e-commerce in the UAE.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote

I was leading Careem Plus initiatives in the UAE. This included working with multiple teams, completing configs, and working with partners such as VISA and RAKBank.

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

Strategic TA leader with a track record of scaling teams, building leadership pipelines, and leading high-impact hiring across the Middle East. Known for designing AI-driven sourcing strategies, managing complex equity negotiations, and shaping Careem’s Food & Groceries verticals from the ground up. Passionate about hiring innovation, employer branding, and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.

🎯 Open to: Dubai

I’m exploring my next move and would love to connect with teams building meaningful AI products. I’m looking for product leadership roles where I can shape strategy, launch AI-powered features or automation systems, and lead cross-functional teams from discovery to scale. My experience spans agentic AI automation at Careem, AI/ML product work at Microsoft, and growth leadership at early-stage startups. I’m especially interested in opportunities that improve quality of life or increase productivity. I’m open to conversations with startups, mid-size companies, and founders building new AI-driven businesses in these spaces.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Europe

Technical Lead with 8+ years of experience building scalable FinTech and B2B platforms, with a primary focus on Java-based backend architectures. Proven expertise in full-stack development, merchant billing, and regulatory compliance. Adept at cross-functional collaboration, team mentorship, and leading end-to-end regional system launches.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Jordan

Muhammad Abdul Subhan

Senior Software Engineer

Strategic Mobile Engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in high-scale iOS ecosystems and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Proven track record in architecting modular systems, optimizing SDK performance, and leading cross-functional squads at regional unicorns.

🎯 Open to: Germany or Remote

Strategic Staff Data & AI Engineer with extensive experience [+10 years] architecting data ecosystems that bridge traditional engineering, autonomous AI, and Business Intelligence(BI). Expert in implementing Agentic Development Systems and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to transform manual bottlenecks into self-service, AI-augmented powerhouses. Specialized in scaling infrastructure that democratizes data access while maintaining rigorous automated quality standards.

🎯 Open to: UAE, KSA

Java/Kotlin, Golang, Python

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Riyadh, EEA, USA

Senior Android engineer with over a decade of experience shipping production mobile apps in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Most recent focus has been on the Captain driver app at Careem — the Middle East's leading super-app for ride-hailing, food, and payments — where I owned the native registration rewrite, anti-fraud and device-integrity systems, and significant parts of the driver-economics flows. Deep experience integrating complex third-party SDKs (Play Integrity, Sentiance, Dynatrace), building modular architectures, and shipping reliable, performant code at scale.

🎯 Open to: Remote

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable mobile applications across native and hybrid mobile platforms. Expertise in mobile architecture, SDK development, CI/CD, and React Native interoperability, leveraging analytics and experimentation to drive product performance and UI/UX improvements.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Riyadh, Berlin, Bangalore, Remote

Software Engineer with 5 years of experience designing and building high-scale distributed systems. Proficient in Java and the MERN stack, with hands-on expertise in cloud technologies. Passionate about clean architecture, test-driven development, and taking end-to-end ownership of engineering solutions. Leverages AI-powered developer tools to accelerate delivery and boost team productivity. Leveraging AI-powered developer tools to accelerate delivery and enhance engineering productivity.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Europe, Pakistan & Remote

Senior Engineering Manager with 19+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact engineering teams. Over a decade at Careem, progressively expanded scope from individual contributor to leading engineering functions across Android, Cross platform squads and Identity Platform — reshaping team structures multiple times in response to strategic shifts. Led the ground-up rebuild of Careem's identity platform serving 50M+ users across MENA, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified, compliance-ready foundation for authentication, authorisation, and partner integrations. Operated as dual EM + PM for the platform squad with full roadmap ownership. Known for leading through ambiguity: P0 war rooms/incidents, founding Careem's incident management programme, and promoting engineers to their next level. Builds platform teams that unlock product velocity.

🎯 Open to: Germany, Remote

Mid-Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend systems. Familiar with Java Spring Boot, MERN stack and Django

🎯 Open to: Middle East, EU, USA, South East Asia, Pakistan, Remote

AI/search-focused product builder across superapps, marketplaces, classifieds and media platforms. Deep experience in ranking, relevance, conversational discovery, experimentation and ML-driven customer experiences at scale, working closely with Engineering, Data Science and ML teams.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote

Director of Engineering at Careem

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote

- Head of engineering for Ads; built the function from 0 to $2M a month and a squad from 0 engineers to 9. - Built and scaled Careem CMS eco-system from scratch, powering content throughout the Careem SuperApp. - Lead the squad for the SuperApp homepage - Lead the above 3 squads in a 100% remote setup where engineers were spread among 6-7 cities covering about 5 different timezones.

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

Have built data and research streams to support new product developments and improve product metrics

🎯 Open to: Dubai, APC, EMEA, remote in Dubai

Zaid Alnajjar

Senior Software Engineer II

Senior mobile engineer with 8+ years building native iOS and Android products at scale. Expertise spans modern architectures, clean coding standards, and crafting seamless end-user experiences across high-traffic consumer applications.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Riyadh, Amman, Remote

Product leader with 12+ years spanning Marketplace, B2B SaaS, logistics, Super-app, Fintech and Banking across India and the Middle East. Known for owning zero-to-one product builds, scaling engineering squads, and driving measurable operational and commercial impact. Combines strong analytical skills with a systems-level product mindset to ship scalable products.

🎯 Open to: Anywhere

Senior Software Engineer II with 9+ years of experience, originally specializing in frontend technologies across web, mobile, and smart TV platforms. Over the past two years, I've transitioned into applied AI engineering; working with Gen- AI agents, MCPs, and agentic workflows. Award-winning engineer with a track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives from architecture through to production.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Riyadh, Remote, Amman, Anywhere

Senior Backend Engineer Identity Platform · Java / Kotlin / Spring Boot · OAuth, Kafka, AWS · Building with LLMs

🎯 Open to: Germany, remote

I have spent 7+ years shipping products and building AI tools across some of the fastest-growing platforms in MENA and APAC — Careem, foodpanda, and Food Market Hub. At Careem I built a Claude-powered AI agent used daily by a 30-person product team, owned 20+ feature launches across UAE, KSA and Jordan, and ran 10+ concurrent A/B experiments. At Food Market Hub I led the POS product pod — shipping offline POS, foodcourt modules, and lending integrations that drove $5M+ GMV. I am great at taking ambiguous, complex operational problems and turning them into shipped product with measurable impact. Next I am looking for a Senior Product Manager or Product Operations role at a high-growth company where AI, marketplace operations, or fintech intersect.

🎯 Open to: Dubai, USA, Europe, South East Asia

Muhammad Imran

Director of Software Engineering

Engineering Leader · Built Careem’s Subscription (CareemPlus) & DineOut platforms

🎯 Open to: Dubai, Remote, Berlin, Riyadh