Software Engineer

About the job

About The Opportunity
Role summary:
The mission of the Product Engineering Enablement Tribe is to help reduce cognitive load and enable our Product Tribes to be successful, by focusing on our biggest constraints across the engineers’ journey at talabat.
To spearhead this mission, we’re looking for a passionate engineer who is keen to participate in the lived experience of our engineers to identify frictions they face in their day-to-day, surface those pain points to relevant teams, and work with our Mobile Development Enabling Teams to remedy them.
As a Dev Enablement Engineer, your primary role will be to:

• Identify & analyze the largest points of friction in the lived experience of our mobile engineers
• Provide insights & work with Mobile Development Enabling Teams in removing those frictions via solution implementation
• Enable successful adoption of solutions delivered by Mobile Development Enabling Teams
  If you’re a truly passionate developer advocate who enjoys surfacing & solving socio-technical frictions across the wider tech organization, this could be a perfect role for you. The role requires a combination of strong technical and social skills and provides an exciting career growth opportunity.
  Focus areas:
• Maximizing flow
• Amplifying feedback loops
• Lowering cognitive load
  Examples of problems to look at:
• Pipeline experience (automating the creation of new services for mobile releases)
• Observability & Performance monitoring/profiling tools (crash rates, networking reliability, logging)
• Improvement & scaling the app build + test running flows
• PR process
• Repo documentation
• Flow state interruptions

What you need to be successful
The Following Experience Is Relevant To Us:

• 4-5 years of software engineering experience including system engineering
• Great at building relationships with key stakeholders (Enabling Teams + talabat engineers)
• Great at analyzing frictions & selecting small-batch opportunities that solve engineers’ problems (balancing discovery & implementation)
• Proficient in applying a data-informed approach to decision-making (utilizing relevant metrics, to optimize processes, and achieve measurable outcomes)
• Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset
  Below are technologies that we use to help us solve customer problems, so it would be great if you have experience in some/all of the below:
• Solid experience in mobile-specific development (Android, iOS, Flutter)
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle as well as the overall landscape, architectures, and emerging tech. Understanding of backend life cycle is an advantage.
• Exposure to BFF, GraphQL, Authentication vs Authorization, app versioning fragmentation
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools/techniques to always keep the development branch in a releasable state
• Knowledge of server-side languages (.Net, Golang, Python)
• Exposure to relational and nonrelational databases
• Experience with mobile observability tools (Sentry)

Who we are
As the region’s leading local tech organization, we’re proud to say that we have been delivering for millions of people right across MENA for the past 18 years.
We were founded in Kuwait in 2004, and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015. This gives us a unique outlook - local knowledge with global expertise. It also allows us to innovate, create, and bring new technologies for the betterment of the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, autonomous delivery vehicles, robots, and drones.
We deliver across 9 countries with more than 4,500+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches.
Our q-commerce concept, talabat mart (121 Stores), now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!
talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide.