Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster)

Hybrid - Full Time - Ride-Hailing Cluster

Kazakhstan

Application ID: 1455

Unit Lead in our team orchestrates the work of multiple product teams responsible for the domain.
As a Unit Lead, you’ll align and empower the teams delivering high-performance, scalable systems for your domain. You’ll co-own the engineering roadmap with Product, guide architecture for high-load services in production, and raise the bar on reliability across one of our most critical areas — inDrive Ride-Hailing for passengers. You’ll lead and mentor Engineering Managers, drive cross-team initiatives, and collaborate across domains in a dynamic, distributed environment.
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Key Responsibilities

  • Own the delivery and outcomes of a specific product area across 3 product teams
  • Partner with Product on creating the roadmap with Engineering Managers
  • Coordinate delivery across multiple teams, ensuring predictable execution and alignment on priorities
  • Ensure teams follow iterative/agile practices
  • Monitor and improve delivery health using data and metrics
  • Provide architecture and design guidance across teams
  • Drive cross team technical initiatives
  • Oversee incident management and postmortems
  • Guide teams in managing technical debt
  • Directly manage Engineering Managers within the unit;
    coach EMs in people leadership, delivery management, and technical decision making
  • Collaborate with Director of Engineering, other Unit
    Heads, Engineering Managers and Agile Coaches on cross unit initiatives
  • Regular status reporting Identify and address systemic problems
  • Facilitate and support retrospectives and improvement initiatives at unit level

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Proven experience leading multiple cross functional teams (ideally 30 engineers, 3 years)
  • Strong experience with agile/iterative product development (preferably in a product company)
  • Experience of hiring, growing, and retaining engineering leaders and senior engineers
  • Strong technical background (solid background in backend or mobile product development, ability to read and understand code (preferably Go, iOS/Android) and discuss trade offs with engineers)
  • Experience with system design, understanding of microservice architectures for high load systems, experience designing and overseeing scalable, reliable, and observable systems in production
  • Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems
  • Strong product sense: ability to understand user problems, business constraints (ride hailing, mobility, maps/geo, or marketplace platforms experience would be an advantage)
  • Background in A/B testing, experimentation platforms would be an advantage
  • Experience using delivery and product metrics Agile mindset, communication skills
  • Comfortable working in a fast changing environment with evolving requirements
  • Experience in international or distributed teams, working across time zones
  • English B2

Conditions

  • Stable salary, official employment.
  • Health insurance.
  • Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
  • Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions.
  • Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
  • Discount club membership.
  • Diverse internal training programs.
  • Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
  • All necessary work equipment.

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