About the job
We are looking for a highly talented Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on and team management experience and create a direct impact, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player.
Responsibilities:
- Defining the strategic direction of your team and contributing to the technical strategy for the entire Hungerstation consumer products.
- Guiding and coaching an exceptional team of engineers, mentoring them in technical and non-technical aspects to build stable, scalable, and reliable features and services.
- Helping shape individual careers and growing the team to become more self-organized, agile, and autonomous.
- Establishing and growing the right Engineering Practices with your team (e.g. TDD, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies) to improve team engagement, speed of delivery, and feature/service quality.
- Leading projects your team owns in collaboration with a product manager, including stakeholder and dependency management, creating roadmaps, alignment, and cost management.
- Playing an active role in evolving the overall architecture, especially for systems and products owned by your team.
- Scaling different processes of the organization such as engineering hiring and onboarding.
What you need to be successful:
- More than 8 years of overall experience with at least 2 years of team leadership experience.
- Ability to identify needed changes, create a vision, and execute changes through team coaching or mentoring.
- Good understanding of product and business KPIs, translating them into goals using the OKR framework.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Knowledge of best practice Design Patterns, Design Principles, databases (Postgresql, MySQL, NoSQL), Domain Driven Design, and microservice architecture.
- Hands-on programming experience (using Golang, Java, RoR, Swift, or Kotlin) and knowledge of designing cloud-based, distributed, and scalable system architectures.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
Who we are
Hungerstation is the first Saudi Food delivery App in the region! Established in 2012, Hungerstation enables browsing the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA. Hunterstation is part of the Delivery Hero Group operating in 70+ countries worldwide.
What's in it for you:
- Visa and relocation support globally for permanent employees.
- Exchange ideas with colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero.
- Personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Access to e-learning platform LinkedIn and various in-house training programs.
