Zubayr S.

Senior Software Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in payments and banking.
Expert in building high-scale microservices.
Proven leadership in engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in Fintech and scalable microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesTechnical LeadershipScalability

Other Skills

AWSActiveMQAerospikeAgile MethodologiesApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentCore JavaDockerElasticSearchGo (Programming Language)GrafanaJUnitJavaJava Enterprise EditionKafka

About

As a senior software engineer at Careem, a leading super app in the MENA region, I contribute to the Marketplace Matching team, engineering high-scale microservices that drive millions of ride bookings and order fulfillments daily. My expertise lies in building distributed systems using Kotlin, Kafka, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability. With over a decade of experience in payments and banking, I have designed and developed mission-critical systems at Visa and Airtel Payments Bank. In my current role, I strive to solve complex challenges in platform engineering, enabling seamless user experiences while leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies to support business growth.

Experience

Careem

Senior Software Engineer 2

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

Currently working as a lead engineer in the Marketplace Matching(Platform engineering) team of Careem. We build and maintain highly scalable microservices (talking of a scale of millions of orders in 24 hrs.) that is at the heart of Careem’s business that is responsible for matching available captains for food/groceries orders or ride bookings using complex algorithms, assignment of captains and overall fulfillment of the order. Tech stack is Kotlin, Java, Spring boot, Kafka, AWS, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes.
Previously led a team of 10 engineers in the Careem’s Pay Engineering department. Responsible for high level design & architecture, hands on development of highly scalable,distributed & low latency microservices using Java 17, Spring boot, Spring Security, Rest APIs, JUnit, Test containers, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kong, Redis.

KotlinJavaSpring BootKafkaAWSREST APIs+4

Airtel payments bank

Software Development Engineer 4

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

Led & managed 2 product development teams and built a highly scalable and distributed banking product. Technologies include Java 8, Spring boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Kafka, ElasticSearch, LogStash, Aerospike, Oracle, Kong, Nginx, Microservices, Grafana, Kibana.

JavaSpring BootSpring SecuritySpring CloudKafkaElasticSearch+9

Visa

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Led the development of multiple payments microservices from scratch for the Payments team using Java, Spring Boot, Vertx, ActiveMQ and SQL in the backend . Also used JUnit, Mockito & PowerMock for the unit testing and SonarQube for the code coverage & code quality.

JavaSpring BootVertxActiveMQSQLJUnit+5

Wells fargo

Technology Specialist

Apr 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

Led the design and development of an enterprise level loan processing application which manages all the loan applications for Wells Fargo customers.

Hewlett-packard

Information Service Developer 2

May 2015 – Mar 2016 · 10 mos

Led the design & development for the Flight Crew Attendance
Performance System (Flight CAPS) for American Airlines. FlightCaps is a web-based reporting application. Worked in the development, Requirement Analysis, Testing and Implementation phases of the project.