Sr. Engineering Manager

Delivery Hero; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading delivery service company in Dubai seeks an experienced software engineering leader. You will guide a talented team to develop complex solutions and drive product outcomes. With 8 years in engineering and 4 years in leadership, you will mentor cross-functional teams and implement best practices in agile methodologies. The position is full-time and requires a strong understanding of cloud platforms, especially AWS, and experience in distributed systems architecture.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software engineering experience, ideally in Extreme Programming.
• 4 years of technical leadership and people management.
• Solid experience in web apps and API design, implementation, and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer/business needs to drive outcomes.
• Lead a talented team to create complex software solutions.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives in the tech organization.

Skills

Product sense

Stakeholder Management

Cross-functional team leadership

Mentoring

Communication skills

Agile practices

Testing automation

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Tools

Distributed Systems Architecture

Microservices

Continuous Delivery

Job description

Role summary

• 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 selforganize and discover innovate implement deploy and own endtoend complex software solutions
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring coaching and retention strategies in a hypergrowing highly competitive economic environment
• Guide your team in creation of software as a solution to an endtoend problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches taking into account nonfunctional requirements such as availability scalability latency and efficiency of talabats services in line with our internal engineering standards.
• Guide your teams discovery planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers in small batches
• Lead a specific domain of our product
• Contribute to the wider tech organization by leading strategic initiatives

Qualifications

• Great product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our engineers
• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships (Stakeholder & Dependency Management)
• Able to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery
• Able to help others understand the value of continuous flow of value and the role of technical practices to enable it
• Experience building & leading crossfunctional empowered and selforganized teams of multidisciplinary engineers
• Able to transfer knowledge 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 openminded with a growth mindset thriving on continuous feedback
• Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
• 8 years of experience in software engineering preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD Pair Programming Simple Design and Continuous Refactoring)
• 4 years of handson technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices EventDriven andRESTful 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
• Wide experience in different technology stacks tools and practices such as DevOps.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Fulltime