Software Engineer II - Backend

As a Software Engineer II, you will work alongside your cross-functional team (engineering, product, data) to continuously discover customer and business needs. You will be tasked with designing, writing, and releasing software solutions that address these needs and deliver value in small batches according to our engineering standards. Your role will also involve optimizing team practices to develop a self-organized, continuously improving unit, and critically questioning and simplifying our tech organization’s systems, processes, and solutions.

Location
Dubai, UAE

Job Type
Full-time

Job Category
Software Engineering

Work Conditions
On-Site

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 an Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring) with predominant languages being .NET, Golang, and C#
• Experience in testing with a focus on automated end-to-end quality
• Experience in distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery

Who We Are
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat has become the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, providing convenience and reliability to customers across eight countries in the region. We focus on harnessing innovative technology to optimize operations and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities. At talabat, we foster a high-performance culture and aim to build an engaged workforce. Our engineering culture emphasizes optimizing feedback loops, maintaining quality for speed, and ensuring product-minded engineers solve customer problems effectively.