About the job
The FinTech tribe serves as a catalyst, ensuring seamless, reliable, and precise financial experiences for our 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. The tribe manages different products such as payment lifecycle management, wallets, lending products, billing, and accounting.
talabat is the leading online food and groceries ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries. Founded in 2004, we have become the largest and most popular food ordering app in the region, delivering hundreds of thousands of orders every day with over 2,000+ employees. Our engineering culture is based on eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain-Driven Design, Lean, and Continuous Delivery, allowing us to find new ways to shorten feedback loops, innovate, and create together.
Role Summary/Responsibilities
- Understand customer/business needs and drive desired outcomes through strategy creation in collaboration with product, design, and data teams.
- Lead and inspire 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 in the creation of software solutions for end-to-end business problems, ensuring value delivery while considering non-functional requirements.
- Oversee discovery, planning, and execution to deliver value to customers in small batches.
What you need to be successful
Relevant experience includes:
- 6+ years in software engineering, preferably in an Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming).
- Good understanding of lean/agile principles and practices.
- 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
- Experience building and leading cross-functional, self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
- Strong stakeholder and dependency management via proactive communication.
- Background in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, RESTful Services).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
Benefits
Working at talabat offers various perks, including:
- A dynamic and innovative environment with no constraints on your role.
- The opportunity to work with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 50 nationalities.
- Comprehensive healthcare and a relocation package.
- Participation in company events, hackathons, and sports events.
Who we are
As the region's leading tech organization, we're dedicated to making a positive impact across MENA. Since our founding in Kuwait in 2004 and our acquisition by Delivery Hero in 2015, we leverage local insights and global expertise to innovate and deliver new technologies for the betterment of the region. We deliver across 9 countries, working with over 27,000 brands and nearly 50,000 branches. Our grocery delivery concept, talabat mart, now serves customers within 30 minutes in several countries.
