Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster) – Kazakhstan
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.
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
