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Software Engineer I - Backend | NextGen Engineering

Careem

Joins the NextGen program that trains new engineers on clean code, SOLID design and reliable distributed systems, then places them on backend services behind the Careem app. Suits fresh CS graduates with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object-oriented design.

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Where

Karachi, Lahore

On-site
Experience

No experience needed

Pay

Pay not stated

Type

Full-time

What they ask for

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesSQLNoSQLAWSData StructuresAlgorithms

How Careem hires

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Recruiter screen · Candidate reported

  2. 2

    Online assessment

    Online test · Candidate reported

    Reported on Codility, with SQL-based problems for data and analytics roles.

  3. 3

    Technical rounds

    Technical interview · Candidate reported

    Several, and for some roles run as a single day: candidates report six or seven interviews in one sitting.

  4. 4

    Behavioural and leadership round

    Senior leadership · Candidate reported

    Product knowledge and business metrics come up for senior and product-adjacent roles.

What comes up

Product and business metricsSQL for data roles
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A text-based course on how databases work underneath: storage and page layout, indexing, transactions and ACID, concurrency control, partitioning and sharding, replication and consistency, consensus and leader election, recovery, and the main NoSQL families. It ends with case studies designing the databases behind Quora, TikTok, Airbnb and Snapchat. It suits engineers who want their database choices in system design answers to be defensible rather than hand-waved.

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Last checked 8 days ago (6 Oct 2026)

About the company

The everything app for the Middle East and Pakistan, owned by Uber, with engineering and operations teams in Karachi and Lahore working on ride hailing, delivery and payments.

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