Who are we? Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat has emerged as the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, offering convenience and reliability to our customers. With a strong understanding of the needs within the communities we serve across eight countries in the region, we leverage innovative technology to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurant and local shop partners, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities. Here at talabat, we are fostering a high-performance culture with an engaged workforce and a focus on talent density. Our team of over 6,000 is dedicated to spreading positive vibes and making a difference. We are proud to be recognized as a multi great place to work award winner.
A Little Bit About Our Engineering Culture: - Shorten Feedback Loops: We optimize for flow of value in small batches to learn faster and minimize waste, influencing how we build systems and communicate. - Quality Enables Speed: We adhere to XP, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices for high-quality and secure value delivery in a sustainable manner. - Product-minded Engineers: Our engineers possess a strong understanding of business and customer problems to minimize costly handovers and deliver effective solutions quickly.
Role Summary: - Participate in continuous discovery of customer and business needs alongside cross-functional teams (engineering, product, data) to drive desired outcomes. - Design, write, and release software to solve end-to-end problems within your business domain, delivering value in small batches. - Understand and innovate the scalability and complexity of services, owning the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). - Support the optimization of team practices to foster a self-organized, continuously improving unit. - Critically evaluate and simplify organizational systems, processes, and solutions.
Qualifications: - Empathetic with excellent relationship-building skills. - Good verbal and written communication abilities. - Humble, curious, open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback. - Understanding of lean/agile values, principles, and associated practices. - 3+ years of software engineering experience, preferable in an Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring) with predominant languages including .NET, Golang, and C#. - Experience in automated testing, focusing on end-to-end quality. - Familiarity with distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services). - Experience working with relational and non-relational databases. - Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). - Proficient in building, maintaining, and improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery. This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership and a desire to understand user pain points and needs, encouraging alternative working methods that prioritize co-creation and continuous improvement.
