Engineering Manager

talabat; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online food ordering platform is looking for an experienced engineering leader to drive product outcomes and empower a talented engineering team. You'll engage with product, design, and data teams to understand business needs and guide the development of end-to-end software solutions. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years in software engineering and 2 years in leadership, with proficiency in Agile methodologies and cloud technologies. This role is positioned in Dubai, offering a dynamic work culture with opportunities to innovate.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
• Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and scaling web apps and APIs.
• Mentor and coach engineers.
• Manage dependencies and stakeholders proactively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Growth mindset and openness to feedback.
• Strong lean/agile understanding and practices.
• 6+ years software engineering, XP environment.
• 2+ years hands-on technical leadership and people mgmt.
• Experience in distributed systems architecture.
• Experience building and scaling web apps and APIs.
• Strong knowledge of mobile development life cycle.
• Familiarity with mobile landscapes and emerging tech.
• Proficient in automated end-to-end testing.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, security standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategies to meet customer/business needs with your team.
• Inspire and empower engineers to innovate and implement solutions.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent in a competitive environment.
• Guide the team in creating software as a solution to end-to-end problems with non-functional requirements.
• Guide discovery, planning and execution to deliver value in small batches.

Skills

Product sense

Stakeholder management

Mentoring and coaching

Verbal and written communication

Agile values and principles

Lean/Agile

XP practices

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

RESTful services

Continuous delivery

Testing automation

Cloud platforms AWS

Performance and security awareness

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Microservices

RESTful Services

CI/CD

Job description

Talabat Overview

Talabat is the leading online food and groceries ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries across the region. Founded in 2004 by a small group of entrepreneurs in Kuwait, talabat’s success expanded to the rest of the GCC region, Egypt & Jordan, making it the largest and most popular food ordering app. With over 4,000+ employees and 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 delivery platforms across the globe. Our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13 countries and operations in 40+ countries.

Job Description

A little bit about our engineering culture
We love finding new ways to shorten the feedback loops, create together and make an impact. To do so, our engineering culture and practices are based on eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Continuous Delivery. We believe that the assumption behind the “Speed vs Quality” mindset is flawed and that you can both have your cake and eat it too. For us, quality enables speed. Not in 2 years, but now. Co-creating together with others through Pair and Mob programming helps us deliver more value sooner and find joy in our work by seeking productive human connections with others. We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand the context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and find more purpose in their work.

Role Summary

• Alongside product, design and data teammates, understand customer/business needs, desires and problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy to achieve them.
• Lead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self‑organize and discover, innovate, implement, deploy and own end‑to‑end complex software solutions.
• Develop and grow engineering talent through mentoring, coaching and retention strategies in a hyper‑growing, highly competitive environment.
• Guide your team in creating software as a solution to an end‑to‑end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches, taking into account non‑functional requirements such as availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of talabat’s services in line with our internal engineering standards.
• Guide your team’s discovery, planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers in small batches.

Qualifications

The following experience is relevant to us

• Great product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our customers.
• Able to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery.
• Experience building & leading cross‑functional, empowered and self‑organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
• Ability to guide & elevate talent via mentoring and coaching.
• Strong stakeholder and dependency management via proactive communication.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating compelling written narratives to get key stakeholders engaged.
• Humble, curious, open‑minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
• Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring).
• 2+ years of hands‑on technical leadership and people management experience.
• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event‑Driven, and RESTful Services).
• Experience building, maintaining & improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery.
• Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling web apps and APIs.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech.
• Proficient in testing with focus on automated end‑to‑end quality.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security standards.