Manager Engineering

About the Job:

The company is the leading food and grocery delivery platform across the MENA region, serving customers in 9 countries. Our mobile apps are the primary interface for hundreds of thousands of daily orders, and the engineering behind them directly shapes how millions of people eat, shop, and experience convenience. We are part of the Delivery Hero network spanning over 50 countries.

We are looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams focused on building the company consumer experience on iOS and Android. You will own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily — from discovery and ordering to real-time tracking and payments.

This is a hands-on leadership role. While you won't be writing code daily, you will be close enough to make informed architectural decisions, unblock your engineers, and maintain high technical standards. You'll lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers and partner closely with product, design, and backend teams.

We practice eXtreme Programming (XP) principles, including pair programming, TDD, and continuous delivery. If you haven't worked in an XP environment before, that's fine; what matters is that you believe quality enables speed and are excited to lead in this way.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features.
• Own mobile release quality — drive testing strategy, monitor crash rates and performance metrics, and maintain release cadence.
• Partner with product managers and designers to shape what gets built, balancing user impact with technical feasibility.
• Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularisation, dependency injection, reactive patterns, navigation architecture).
• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations.
• Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across the company.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross-platform).
• 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring, performance, career development).
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture — capable of evaluating trade-offs between native vs cross-platform.
• Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance and user experience.
• Strong automated testing mindset; experienced in CI/CD for mobile.
• Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

Bonus:

• Experience with XP practices (TDD, pair/mob programming).
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
• Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile apps.
• AWS or cloud platform experience.

Language Requirements: None specified, but proficiency in English is typically expected in a multinational environment.

Ideal Candidate Attributes:

• Energetic about growing engineers, not just shipping code.
• Passionate about mobile craft—smooth animations, fast launch times, accessible interfaces.
• Comfortable making technical calls even with incomplete data.
• Desire to lead at a company where mobile is the core product.

Not Suitable For:

• Those seeking a pure people-management role without technical depth.
• Those preferring stable, slow-moving environments.
• Those uncomfortable with pair programming or collaborative coding practices.

Career Growth Path: the company offers a structured career framework with clearly defined levels for engineering leaders, ranging from Engineering Manager to Senior Engineering Director, with increasing responsibilities in people leadership, technical direction, and strategic ownership.