Building
meaningful
experiences

eCabs is a dynamic and exciting workplace. My work experience has enabled me to sharpen my architectural skills, as I oversee the evolution of the ever-growing micro-service ecosystem with scalability and extensibility in mind. My role gives me the opportunity to work with containerisation and cloud technologies, put to test caching and messaging frameworks, as I gather experience with monitoring tools amongst other frameworks and technologies. To top it all off, I get to work with an awesome team of eager problem solvers who will stop at nothing to produce high-performing, robust systems whilst leveraging innovative technologies.

With the growth and development of eCabs technologies and platforms, the Data Team serves to not only provide data for business development teams in utilizing data with reporting and dashboard tools but also to provide these very platforms with a variety of data feeds to aid the growth and development of these platforms. Our team uses innovative technologies whilst collaborating with the platform teams to help the business grow and adapt in an ever-changing mobility industry as we continually optimize our processes to utilize data from the Google Cloud Platform and enhance the efficiency of business development teams and processes.

At eCabs I have the opportunity to use my experience in the Java tech stack across several microservices, as I continue to grow my skillset into new frameworks and cloud-based architecture. Feedback is gathered across the dev team for new functionality to further ensure that such innovation is kept on the right track.

As a product owner at eCabs, I translate the vision for specific product areas into tasks for the development team to execute on. The requirement-gathering aspect means that I am constantly gaining industry knowledge, engaging stakeholders, applying my research and analytical skills. Writing up user stories for the product backlog demands thinking on a granular level, considering systems discretely, removing ambiguity which leads to the delivery of better, more useful features. I work in a massively supportive team, where we’ve gotten our CSPO certification. There’s flexibility and plenty of scope to keep growing professionally given the breadth, complexity and ambition of eCabs’ service offering.

Having been one of the very first Android developers at eCabs, I introduced Firebase to the stack, which accelerated development and continues to play an essential part in our technology. Over these exciting years I've had the opportunity to develop several apps for different audiences around map technologies like Google Maps and Mapbox. This experience brought with it several interesting challenges, with each app having to be approached through unique methodologies. All our Android apps are written in Kotlin which has clear advantages, improves development time and is still interoperable with Java.

What I find really cool about work at eCabs is the pace at which product enhancement is done by leveraging the latest in cloud technologies and modern software architecture paradigm, enabling an incremental and iterative release of new features that brings the best user experience to our clients.

Testing is great fun, but that fun is taken to another level altogether when testing requires multiple apps and a platform. This rich diversity enables me to learn and grow my skillset with continuous product features and functionality updates, all requiring my attention for regression testing. I’ve had the opportunity to create automation in Java utilising Selenium and Cucumber which has brought my experience to the next level.

eCabs gives me the opportunity and space to continuously grow my skillset working with the latest technologies, building a cutting-edge platform that is driven by research. We work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio and Jenkins day in day out, connecting all the dots with infrastructure as a code, as we nurture a perpetual learning curve of interesting and varied work. This is life at eCabs.

At eCabs, everyone is driven to innovate. I thrive in this culture. I thoroughly enjoy the freedom to try new concepts and methodologies. I am allowed to fail and learn as I take ownership of my work and responsibilities. My key role at eCabs is to view user problems with empathy and elegantly design simple solutions to multi-faced problems for our consumer app, ensuring the best user experience for our riders, transform how they use our product, and consequently, improve the way they move.