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Yassir

On-demand ride-hailing, delivery, and digital finance

Engineering Manager - Mobility Domain

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt+1 moreMore locations: Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt
HybridHybrid work is listed for Cairo; the posting also states the role will be based in Berlin or Paris, which conflicts with the ATS locations.
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • At least three years of work experience as an engineering manager or tech lead in an engineering department.
  • Good understanding and hands-on experience with test-driven development and domain-driven design.
  • Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces.
  • Good understanding of agile methodologies.
  • Excellent leadership and project management skills.
  • Solid software design knowledge, including creating extensible and reusable software that meets architectural objectives.
  • A BSc or MSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or a relevant field.
Responsibilities
  • Work with product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate them into pragmatic and effective technical solutions.
  • Contribute to hiring the engineering team for the product the role is responsible for.
  • Work with stakeholders to establish a culture of technical excellence and be responsible for the success and personal growth of the team.
  • Oversee engineering teams and their projects, remove blockers, and coach teammates.
  • Build robust and scalable software in Node.js.
  • Improve existing code quality by introducing quality assurance and performing code reviews.
  • Apply test-driven development and domain-driven design.
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous experience with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or payment provider.
  • Experience managing remote teams.

About the company

Yassir provides a multi-service platform that offers ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, and digital financial services across the Maghreb region and beyond. Users access these services through a single app that coordinates logistics for transportation and deliveries while providing tools to pay, save, and borrow money digitally. Unlike competitors that focus on a single service, Yassir integrates transportation and finance into one marketplace to build a comprehensive digital economy. The company's goal is to create a marketplace that serves daily needs and promotes financial inclusion while incorporating social values.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$180.3M

Headquarters

Algiers, Algeria

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • March 2026 Yassir Market launches add physical distribution and higher-frequency grocery demand.
  • Kawarizmi unlocks retail-media revenue from first-party data across open web and CTV.
  • Senegal's September 2025 ruling preserved operations, keeping a live growth market open.

What critics are saying

  • Yassir France entered liquidation in January 2026, exposing weak European expansion discipline.
  • Retail and ad-tech integrations from March 2026 can distract management from core ride-hailing execution.
  • A prolonged subsidy war with Yango, Heetch, and in-country regulators can crush unit economics.

What makes Yassir unique

  • Yassir owns rides, delivery, payments, retail, and ad-tech across North Africa.
  • March 2026 Uno and Kawarizmi acquisitions deepen data, logistics, and merchant monetization.
  • Its 45-city network and Yassir Cash create switching costs for consumers and merchants.

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Benefits

  • Stock Options
  • Remote Work Options
  • Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

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Condia
Mar 13th, 2026
Yassir acquires Kawarizmi to expand into media and advertising

Yassir, the North African startup offering ride-hailing, food delivery and financial services since 2017, has acquired programmatic advertising agency Kawarizmi as it expands into media and advertising. The deal's terms were not disclosed. The acquisition marks a strategic shift for Yassir, which has built its business around on-demand daily services including Yassir Express for food and grocery delivery, and Yassir Cash for financial services. The move into media and advertising represents the company's latest diversification effort beyond its core app-based offerings.

EntArabi
Mar 13th, 2026
Yassir acquires Uno stores to boost e-commerce in Algeria and Africa

Algerian startup Yassir has acquired Uno stores from the Cevital Group, rebranding them as "Yassir Market". The company plans to open its flagship store at Bab Ezzouar shopping centre in Algiers within days. The acquisition follows Jumia's exit from the grocery and retail sector in North Africa. Yassir aims to integrate digital expertise with physical retail presence through a network of stores offering a hybrid shopping experience, including groceries, luxury goods, cosmetics and fast food outlets. Transactions will be processed through Yassir Cash, supported by over 5,000 agents, whilst customers can earn points through the "Yassir +" programme. The company is also developing a B2B logistics layer for wholesale deliveries to institutional clients including embassies and major corporations. Founded by Stanford PhD and former Silicon Valley engineer Nour Eddine Taibi, Yassir operates across six countries and 50 cities, serving over 10 million users.

Finextra
May 21st, 2024
Super Apps: What’S In A Name?

The phrase super apps has gained currency in recent years, generally used to mean a digital one-stop-shop for a range of services. The likes of Uber and DoorDash have expanded their offerings beyond their core services, while Revolut refers to itself as. a ‘financial super app’ in its marketing, and the recent IPO of Kazakh fintech Kaspi.kz at a valuation of $18bn brought the concept further into the mainstream. It is, however, a pretty vague concept, and one I think merits unpacking further. To do so, I sat down with my colleagues Thomas Rubens and Guy

TechCrunch
Nov 7th, 2022
Yassir Pulls In $150M For Its Super App, Led By Mary Meeker’S Bond

Yassir, an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November. The investment was led by BOND, the growth-stage firm that Mary Meeker spun out of Kleiner Perkins in 2018. Other investors in the growth round include DN Capital, Dorsal Capital, Quiet Capital, Stanford Alumni Ventures, and Y Combinator via its Continuity Fund, among other strategic investors

TechMoran
Nov 29th, 2021
Algerian transport startup Yassir secures $30m Series A funding round for expansion. : TechMoran

Yassir, an Algerian on-demand transportation platform, has raised a $30 million Series A funding round to enable it expand into…