About the Job
talabat has a great opportunity to broaden our footprint and provide a better experience to our customers and vendors. As the Director of Engineering for the Growth tribe, you will be responsible for building and leading the tribe and its respective engineering teams. The engineering organization within our Growth tribe consists of over 70 engineers working across 8 cross-functional teams. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and data leaders to identify problems and opportunities, leveraging tech solutions to enhance our services for customers and businesses alike.
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In this role, you will guide your Domain Leads and their respective teams to scope, validate, build, deploy, and maintain the solutions that realize these opportunities. The Growth tribe focuses on technologies to help talabat’s partners acquire and retain customers on our platform, split into two domains: Monetization & Incentives (covering areas such as AdEx, Growth Marketing, and Vendor Growth & Ops Portal) and Customer Retention (including talabat Pro and Activation).
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape the engineering vision and strategy for the Growth tribe.
- Build an environment that encourages teams to be self-organized and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement.
- Foster personal development and growth of individuals.
- Attract, lead, and retain talent (engineering managers and engineers).
- Provide technology solutions to support business/product engineering teams in solving complex scenarios.
- Maintain close connections with technology peers across different tribes for cross-tribe initiatives.
- Ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability across the group.
- Ensure Domains and their respective teams follow best practices to deliver scalable and high-quality solutions.
What You Need to Be Successful:
- Ability to manage multiple domains/teams and complex scopes.
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Deep understanding of engineering principles and practices (such as DDD, TDD, CI/CD).
- Experience in building distributed and high-scale systems.
- Ability to find and hire top talent.
- Compassionate leadership skills with a focus on developing other leaders.
- Ability to build relationships and facilitate continuous feedback channels across departments.
- Customer-centric mindset for delivering effective solutions.
Who We Are
As the region’s leading local tech organization, talabat has been delivering for millions of people across MENA for the past 18 years. Founded in Kuwait in 2004 and acquired by Delivery Hero in 2015, we combine local knowledge with global expertise. Our innovations include q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, and autonomous delivery solutions. We operate in 9 countries with more than 4,500 employees, partnering with over 27,000 brands and nearly 50,000 branches to serve our customers efficiently. Our q-commerce service, talabat mart, delivers groceries in 30 minutes or less to users in several countries across the region.
