About the Job
talabat has a great opportunity to broaden its footprint and enhance the experience for customers and vendors. As the Director of Engineering for the Growth tribe, you will be responsible for building and leading the tribe along with its engineering teams. The Growth tribe's engineering organization consists of over 70 engineers working across 8 cross-functional teams.
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In this role, you will collaborate closely with product, design, and data leaders to identify challenges and opportunities, leveraging technology solutions to better serve our customers and business. You will guide Domain Leads and their respective teams to scope, validate, build, deploy, and maintain solutions that realize these opportunities. The role focuses on technologies that help talabat’s partners acquire and retain customers on the platform, divided into two domains: Monetization & Incentives and Customer Retention.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape the engineering vision and strategy for the Growth tribe.
- Build an environment that encourages teams to speak up, be self-organized, effective, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement.
- Foster personal development and growth of individuals within the team.
- Attract, lead, and retain talent, including engineering managers and engineers.
- Provide technology solutions to support business and product engineering teams in solving complex scenarios.
- Collaborate with product, design, and data counterparts to shape the product vision and strategy.
- Maintain close connections with technology peers from different tribes to ensure support in cross-tribe initiatives.
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
- Ensure domain teams follow best practices to deliver scalable and high-quality solutions.
What You Need to Be Successful:
- Ability to manage multiple domains 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 to grow other leaders.
- Strong relationship-building skills and capability to establish continuous feedback channels with stakeholders.
- True customer mindset in every solution delivered.
Who We Are
As the region’s leading local tech organization, talabat has been delivering to millions of people across MENA for the past 18 years. Founded in Kuwait in 2004 and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015, we have a unique perspective combining local knowledge with global expertise. This allows us to innovate and bring new technologies to the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, and autonomous delivery solutions.
We deliver across 9 countries with over 4,500+ employees and work with more than 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches. Our q-commerce initiative, talabat mart, now offers grocery deliveries in 30 minutes or less across multiple countries in the region.
