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Manager Engineering, Q-Commerce, Basket

Talabat Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 05 Jun 2024

Financial

  • Salary unspecified
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Relocation Support
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the job 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 the 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 a focus on automated end-to-end quality Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, and security standards

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About Talabat

Talabat is the leading online food ordering company in the Middle East, founded in Kuwait in 2004. As a subsidiary of Delivery Hero, we operate in multiple countries and strive to provide a seamless food delivery experience. Join our team of over 16,000 employees and be a part of our mission to revolutionize the food delivery industry.

Benefits at Talabat

    • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
    • Dynamic and collaborative work environment with a diverse and inclusive culture.
    • Competitive salary, benefits package, and health and wellness programs.