Nov 2019 – Mar 2024 · Technical Team Lead → Senior Back-End Developer
Carefer
End-to-end car maintenance automation — 50K+ monthly orders across admin, customer, workshop, driver, and company portals.
Status: archived
Stack
- PHP
- Laravel
- Zend
- MySQL
- REST APIs
- Odoo ERP
- Mobile backends
Achievements
- Platform processing 50K+ monthly service orders with 7+ order types and dynamic action triggers
- Delivered 5 specialized applications with seamless data synchronization
- Integrated 15+ external APIs (parts suppliers, license verification, driver platforms) — ~90% less manual coordination
- Scaled engineering team from 3 to 20+ while maintaining code quality and delivery timelines
- Automated workflow from pickup scheduling to delivery — 60% reduction in average service time
- Automotive
- Laravel
- Multi-app
- Saudi Arabia
Overview
Carefer automates the full car maintenance journey in Saudi Arabia — from vehicle pickup through workshop work to customer delivery — across multiple stakeholder applications.
What I built
As senior backend engineer and later technical team lead, I owned platform architecture, complex order status chains, third-party integrations, and team scaling.
Highlights
- Multi-application ecosystem — Admin Dashboard, Customer App, Workshop app, Driver Mobile App, and Companies Portal
- Workflow engine — Sophisticated order status chains with automated notifications
- Operations at scale — Monitoring, ERP integration (Odoo), and APIs supporting mobile teams