Manager Engineering Full-time Job

Role Summary/ Role Responsibilities

Alongside your team counterparts (product, design, data), understand your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy to drive desired outcomes

Lead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize and discover, innovate, implement, deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions

Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a hyper-growing, highly competitive economic environment

Guide your team in creation of software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches, taking into account non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of talabat’s services in line with our internal engineering standards.

Guide your team’s discovery, planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers in small batches

What you need to be successful

The Following Experience Is Relevant To Us

6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)

Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices

2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience

Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers

Ability to transfer knowledge via mentoring and coaching

Strong Stakeholder and Dependency management via proactive communication

Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)

Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and continuous deployment

Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs

Strong understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech

Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality

Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS

Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security standards

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, wed be pretty surprised if talabat didnt pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, weve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years. Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region. Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. In 2020 alone, we facilitated the donation of well over 340,000 meals, and 44,000 medicine donations to those in need, as well as donated over 1.3million euros to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.