Engineering Manager

About Talabat

Talabat is the leading online food ordering platform in MENA, operating in 8 countries across the region, with over 1,600+ employees, millions of users, we deliver hundreds of thousands of orders every day.

We are part of the Delivery Hero network building the next generation of online food-delivery platforms across the globe. Our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13 countries and operations in 40+ countries.

Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions to complex problems that cover the full customer experience - starting with an online search for food and ending with a delicious meal arriving at your doorstep.

Position

As Engineering Manager, you will work on our next generation ordering platform to create a smooth and easy ordering experience for our customers.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environmen
• t Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Talabat’s services
• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers
• Partner with product and other stakeholders, to drive desired outcomes

Your qualification

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers
• Aligns with other teams on project scope, domain and boundaries
• Analyzes and identifies possible project delays and reports to stakeholders
• Mentorship - ability to successfully transfer knowledge
• Able to decrypt unclear stakeholder requirements and drives for clarity to ensure right problem is addressed
• Solid experience building large-scale applications using modern programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Go, etc.)
• Wide experience in different technology stacks, tools, and practices such as DevOps 
• Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs preferably in .NET/Core
• Experience building mobile apps in iOS or Android
• Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles
• Proficient in unit-testing, TDD, BDD/ATDD
• Experience with cloud platforms preferably AWS
• Solid experience of building applications in distributed systems architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, SOA and RESTful Services)
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDb)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques
• Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security using best practices

What we offer

• Dynamic & innovative environment
• Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of online food ordering services in the world
• Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 45 nationalities
• Developer Exchange Programs with other DH entities
• Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events
• Fresh fruit, cereal, beverages, tea and coffee
• Comprehensive healthcare as well as subsidized gym membership and parking
• Relocation package
• Competitive salary