Software Engineer

About
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, the company, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.

Job Description

• Alongside your cross-functional team (engineering, product, data), participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes.
• Design, write and release software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards.
• Understand scalability & complexity of your services and own & innovate the entire SDLC.
• Support optimization of your team’s practices to develop it into a self-organized continuously improving unit.
• Critically question and simplify our tech org systems/processes and solutions.

Qualifications

• 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 Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring) with predominant languages being .NET, Golang, and C#.
• Experience in testing with 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.
• Exposed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery.

Location
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates