Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster)
full-time•Astana
About this role
Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster)
Department: Ride-Hailing Cluster
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Kazakhstan
Description
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.
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.
Other facts
Tech stack
Leadership,Agile Development,Technical Background,System Design,Microservice Architectures,Incident Management,Root Cause Analysis,Product Sense,A/B Testing,Communication Skills,International Teams,Data Metrics,Coaching,Collaboration,Delivery Management,Technical Decision Making
About inDrive
inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 390 million times, and has been the second most downloaded mobility app for the third consecutive year. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation and delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A arm.
inDrive operates in 1065 cities in 48 countries. Driven by its mission of challenging social injustice, the company is committed to having a positive impact on the lives of one billion people by 2030. It pursues this goal both through its core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision, its non-profit arm. inVision’s community empowerment programs help to advance education, sports, arts and sciences, gender equality and other vital initiatives.
For more information visit www.inDrive.com
Team size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Website: http://www.inDrive.com
LinkedIn: Visit
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
What you'll do
- The Unit Lead will oversee the delivery and outcomes of a specific product area across multiple product teams, ensuring alignment and predictable execution. They will also guide architecture and design, manage incident responses, and mentor Engineering Managers.
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What does a Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster) do at inDrive?
As a Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster) at inDrive, you will: the Unit Lead will oversee the delivery and outcomes of a specific product area across multiple product teams, ensuring alignment and predictable execution. They will also guide architecture and design, manage incident responses, and mentor Engineering Managers..
Why join inDrive as a Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster)?
inDrive is a leading IT Services and IT Consulting company.
Is the Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster) position at inDrive remote?
The Unit Lead (Ride-Hailing Cluster) position at inDrive is based in Astana, Kazakhstan. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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