Engineering Manager

About the opportunity 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 What you need to be successful 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 Who we are 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.

What you need to be successful: Great product sense for selecting opportunities that deliver impact to customers; ability to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery; experience building and leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers; ability to guide and elevate talent via mentoring and coaching; strong stakeholder and dependency management via proactive communication; excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to craft compelling narratives for stakeholders; humble, curious, open-minded with a growth mindset and receptiveness to continuous feedback; solid understanding of lean/agile values and practices; 6+ years of experience in software engineering (preferably within an Extreme Programming environment with TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, Continuous Refactoring); 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience; experience in distributed systems architecture (microservices, event-driven, RESTful services); experience with trunk-based development and continuous delivery; solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling web apps and APIs; solid understanding of the full mobile development lifecycle; strong familiarity with mobile architectures and trends; proficiency 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

Role summary: Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to understand customer needs and drive outcomes; lead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize, innovate, implement, deploy and own end-to-end software solutions; develop and grow engineering talent through mentoring and retention strategies in a fast-growing environment; guide the team in creating software to solve end-to-end problems in the business domain while delivering value in small batches and considering non-functional requirements (availability, scalability, latency, efficiency) of talabat services; oversee discovery, planning and execution to deliver value to customers in small batches