A little bit about talabat
talabat is the leading online food and grocery ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries across the region. Founded in 2004 by a small group of entrepreneurs in Kuwait, talabat’s success expanded to the wider MENA region, making it the largest and most popular ordering app. With over 2,000+ employees and millions of users, we deliver hundreds of thousands of orders every day. Being part of Delivery Hero, our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13+ countries and operations in 40+ countries.
A little bit about our engineering culture
- Shorten Feedback Loops: we optimize for flow of value in small batches so that we can learn faster and minimize waste. This applies to how we build systems, communicate with each other, etc.
- Quality enables Speed: we adhere to XP, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices to deliver value with the highest quality/security in a sustainable way.
- Product-minded Engineers: we all have a good understanding of our business & customer problems to minimize costly hand-overs and ensure we solve problems more effectively, and faster.
Role Summary
- Alongside your cross-functional team (engineering, product, data), participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes.
- Design, write and release software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards.
- Understand scalability & complexity of your services and own & innovate the entire SDLC.
- Support optimization of your team’s practices to develop it into a self-organized, continuously improving unit.
- Critically question and simplify our tech org systems/processes and solutions.
What you need to be successful
- Empathetic and able to easily build relationships.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Humble, curious, and 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, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring).
- Experience in testing with focus on automated end to end quality.
- Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services).
- Experience working with relational and nonrelational databases.
- Exposed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery.
Benefits
- Working within talabat means access to perks and benefits that are adjusted to your circumstances - i.e. whether you like to work remotely or in the office.
- Dynamic & innovative environment where you’re not constrained by the boundaries of your role.
- Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of online food ordering services in the world.
- Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 50+ nationalities.
- Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events.
- Comprehensive healthcare.
- Relocation package.
- Competitive remuneration.
