Yogita Sharma — Senior Software Engineer

I am a Senior Engineering Manager with 4+ years of experience building and scaling high impact engineering teams and platforms in the Ecommerce, Grocery Search and Global Search domain at Careem. I started my management journey by leading a small Catalog team, where I drove the complete migration of the Catalog platform from PHP to Go, significantly improving reliability, scalability, and developer velocity. Following this success, I took on broader platform ownership by leading the Search Platform, delivering a large scale migration from legacy PHP and Elasticsearch to Go based services running on OpenSearch. Over time, my scope expanded to owning Search for the Grocery business while also building Global search experiences for the Careem Superapp. This requires balancing platform excellence with fast-paced business needs, ensuring systems are resilient, scalable, and capable of supporting multiple domains, businesses and teams. Across the last four years, I have: Managed and mentored ~35 engineers, with up to 16 direct and indirect reports at a time. Built teams that consistently ship high quality software, on time, with reliability at the core. Led complex migrations of mission critical systems with minimal disruption. Partnered closely with Product, Data Science, Design, Operations and Business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes. I am a strong believer in context driven leadership and practice agile as a tool and not a rulebook. I enable teams to work in Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models based on what best suits their problem space, maturity, and goals. Beyond execution, I enjoy staying hands on. I regularly explore new technologies through personal POCs, particularly in AI and LLMs. In the last year, I built two LLM-based prototypes that were successfully shipped as features for the Grocery business, demonstrating my bias for innovation with real business impact. Eg: Shopping List in Groceries which got featured in GITEX. My core strengths lie in: -Building resilient, scalable platforms. -Growing engineers into strong technical owners using trust first approach. -Driving clarity in ambiguous, high stakes problem spaces. -Bridging deep technical understanding with business outcomes. I care deeply about creating teams that are not only productive, but also proud of the systems they build.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Manager in the Ecommerce and SaaS industry, specializing in scalable systems.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Experience: 12 yrs