Engineering Manager: Lead Cross-Functional Delivery & Growth

Delivery Hero SE; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat, part of the Delivery Hero network, seeks an engineering leader to drive end-to-end software solutions within a high-velocity team. You will mentor engineers, align product and design with data, and champion XP, domain-driven design and continuous delivery.

You will guide discovery, planning and execution to deliver value in small batches, ensuring availability, scalability and latency targets across talabat services. Join a team with a modern agile culture in a fast-growing market.

Qualifications

• 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 the key stakeholders engaged.
• Humble, curious, and 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 of 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.

Responsibilities

• Alongside your team counterparts (product, design, data), understand your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy to drive desired outcomes
• 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 effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a hyper-growing, highly competitive economic environment
• Guide your team in creation of 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

Skills

Product sense

Continuous discovery

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring and coaching

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Growth mindset

Lean/Agile

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Microservices

Job description

talabat, part of the Delivery Hero network, seeks an engineering leader to drive end-to-end software solutions within a high-velocity team. You will mentor engineers, align product and design with data, and champion XP, domain-driven design and continuous delivery.

You will guide discovery, planning and execution to deliver value in small batches, ensuring availability, scalability and latency targets across talabat services. Join a team with a modern agile culture in a fast-growing market.