Engineering Manager
Skills
About This Role
A Little Bit About Talabat
talabat is the leading online food and groceries ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries
across the region.
Founded in 2004 by a small group of entrepreneurs in Kuwait, talabat’s success
expanded to the rest of the GCC region, Egypt & Jordan, making it the largest and most popular food
ordering app.
With over 4,000+ employees and millions of users, we deliver hundreds of thousands of
orders every day.
We are part of the Delivery Hero network building the next generation of online delivery platforms across the globe.
Our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13 countries and
operations in 40+ countries.
Job Description
A little bit about our engineering culture
We love finding new ways to shorten the feedback loops, create together and make an impact.
To do
so, our engineering culture and practices are based on eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain-Driven
Design, Lean and Continuous Delivery.
We believe that the assumption behind the “Speed vs Quality” mindset is flawed and that you can both have your cake and eat it too.
For us, quality enables speed.
Not in 2 years, but now.
Co-creating together with others through Pair and Mob programming helps us deliver more value
sooner and find joy in our work by seeking productive human connections with others.
We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand the context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and find more purpose in their work.
Role Summary
- 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
Qualifications
- The following experience is relevant to us
- Great product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our customers
- Able to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery
- Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers
- Ability to guide & elevate talent via mentoring and coaching
- Strong Stakeholder and Dependency management via proactive communication
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating compelling written narratives to get the key stakeholders engaged
- Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback
- Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming
- environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
- 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
- Experience building, maintaining & improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery
- Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs
- Solid 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
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