Software Engineer II - Backend | NextGen Engineering

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan. We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our organization's network, server, voice, and end-user management infrastructure across offices and the data center. This role requires deep technical expertise across networking, virtualization, voice systems, cloud identity/device management, infrastructure security, and AI-driven automation , combined with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and business stakeholders. What you'll do Networking & Connectivity Design, configure, and manage office networks using Cisco Meraki (switches, wireless access points, security appliances, and dashboard administration). Manage MPLS network connections and WAN links across all office and data center locations, ensuring optimal performance and redundancy. Deploy and maintain Peplink SD-WAN/failover solutions for both offices and the data center. Troubleshoot network performance issues, latency, and connectivity outages across the WAN/LAN environment. Data Center & Virtualization Administer a

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan. We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster. About the team At Careem, the mission for the NextGen program is to help grow our new joint Engineering by learning how to write Clean Code, use SOLID principle techniques, and design reliable systems. The ultimate goal is to train the new Engineers to build Engineering excellence foundations with high standards. Our program covers all the areas of Careem tech be it Cyber Security, Data, Infrastructure, and all the Software Engineering tracks like Backend, Frontend as well as Mobile. We are looking for software engineers to join our team of talented engineers that share a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. You will work alongside a top talent for an accelerated learning path. You will have access to some of the most exciting projects and advanced tech for accelerated learning and exposure. You will be responsible for maintaining some of our services that power the Careem Engine, scaling highly distributed systems, and continuously documenting and improving our engineering practices. These large-scale, distributed systems h