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Engineering Manager Full Time
About the job
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 with more than 3,000+ employees! 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. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million 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.
Summary
As Engineering Manager, you will work on our next generation ordering platform to create a smooth and easy ordering experience for our customers.
If you’re a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Dubai.
Core Responsibilities
Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers
Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environment
Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Talabats services
Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers
Partner with product and other stakeholders, to drive desired outcomes
The Following Experience Is Relevant To Us
6+ years of experience in software engineering
2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers
Aligns with other teams on project scope, domain and boundaries
Analyzes and identifies possible project delays and reports to stakeholders
Mentorship – ability to successfully transfer knowledge
Able to decrypt unclear stakeholder requirements and drives for clarity to ensure right problem is addressed
Solid experience building large-scale applications using modern programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Go, etc.).
Wide experience in different technology stacks, tools, and practices such as DevOps.
Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs preferably in .NET/Core
Experience building mobile apps in iOS or Android.
Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles
Proficient in unit-testing, TDD, BDD/ATDD
Experience with cloud platforms preferably AWS
Solid experience of building applications in distributed systems architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, SOA and RESTful Services)
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDb).
Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques
Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security using best practices
Benefits
Working within Talabat means access to worlds leading perks and benefits, including:
Dynamic & innovative environment
Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of online food ordering services in the world
Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 45 nationalities
Developer Exchange Programs with other DH entities
Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events
Fresh fruit, cereal, beverages, tea and coffee
Comprehensive healthcare as well as subsidized gym membership and parking
Relocation package
Competitive salary