About the Job
The FinTech tribe at talabat serves as a catalyst to ensure seamless, reliable, and precise financial experiences for users, including customers, partners, and regional finance teams. Operating within the app and various heavily-utilized systems, FinTech is dedicated to empowering informed decisions, fostering business growth, and cultivating enduring trust in every interaction. This includes managing products such as payment lifecycle management, wallets, lending products, and billing and accounting.
Role Summary / Responsibilities
- Understand customer and business needs to drive desired outcomes alongside your team counterparts (product, design, data).
- Lead, inspire, and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize, 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 competitive environment.
- Guide your team to create software solutions that address end-to-end problems within your business domain, delivering value while considering non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
- Oversee the discovery, planning, and execution processes to successfully deliver customer value in small batches.
What You Need to Be Successful
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within an Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring).
- Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices.
- 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
- Experience in building and leading cross-functional, empowered, and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills.
- Proven experience in stakeholder and dependency management via proactive communication.
- Expertise in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services) and in designing, implementing, monitoring, and scaling web apps and APIs.
- Familiarity with the full mobile development life cycle and the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
- Proficiency in testing with a focus on automated end-to-end quality, cloud platforms (preferably AWS), and standards related to quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, and security.
Benefits
- Access to a dynamic and innovative environment without constraints of your role.
- Build your career within the fastest-growing and most valuable network of online food ordering services globally.
- Engage with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 50+ nationalities.
- Participate in company events, hackathons, and cultural and sports events.
- Comprehensive healthcare and a relocation package.
Who We Are
As the region’s leading local tech organization, we proudly serve millions of users across MENA. Founded in 2004 in Kuwait, talabat has grown into the largest and most popular food ordering platform, facilitating hundreds of thousands of orders daily across nine countries. We are part of Delivery Hero, enhancing the technological landscape across MENA with innovations like q-commerce, sustainable packaging, and autonomous delivery systems.
