About The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Riyadh. This role is ideal for someone looking to gain hands-on management experience and make a direct impact. The perfect candidate will possess a proven track record as an individual contributor while also being a strong team player.
Responsibilities:
- Define the strategic direction of your team and contribute to the technical strategy for the entire Hungerstation consumer products.
- Guide and coach an exceptional team of engineers, mentoring them in both technical and non-technical aspects, and lead them in building stable, scalable, and reliable features and services.
- Shape the individual careers of team members and foster a more self-organized, agile, and autonomous work environment.
- Establish and develop appropriate Engineering Practices (e.g., TDD, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies) to enhance team engagement, delivery speed, and service quality.
- Collaborate with a product manager to lead projects, managing stakeholders and dependencies, creating roadmaps, ensuring alignment, and overseeing cost management.
- Play an active role in evolving our overall architecture, particularly for the systems and products your team manages.
- Scale various organizational processes, including engineering hiring and onboarding.
What You Need to Be Successful:
- Over 8 years of overall experience with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in the B2C domain is essential.
- Ability to work closely with your team to identify needed changes, create a vision to inspire that change, and effectively execute it.
- Proven experience in coaching or mentoring teams, evolving their structure and processes using Agile methodologies, and successfully hiring top international talent.
- Strong understanding of product and business KPIs, and the ability to translate them into actionable goals using the OKR framework.
- Proficiency in managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Familiarity with effective frameworks, practices, and approaches to resolve complex technical and organizational problems.
- Major experience in building complex, high-quality applications and knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
- Expertise in selecting appropriate Design Patterns and Principles for software architectures and algorithms.
- Strong knowledge of databases and their trade-offs, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL.
- Hands-on programming experience with languages like Golang, Java, Ruby on Rails, Swift, or Kotlin, and a solid understanding of cloud-based, distributed, and scalable system architectures.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
About HungerStation
HungerStation is the first food delivery app in Saudi Arabia, established in 2012. We offer the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA, with over 35,000 options. Our commitment is to customer satisfaction, partner loyalty, and rider well-being, while continuously expanding our service platform. HungerStation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in over 70 countries worldwide.
What's In It for You:
- Visa and relocation support globally for permanent employees.
- Opportunities to exchange ideas and network with over 2000 colleagues across different teams within Delivery Hero.
- Development of skills with a personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Access to an e-learning platform and participation in various in-house training programs.
This role offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a dynamic and growing company.
