Sr. Engineering Manager

talabat; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking a dynamic technical leader to inspire and guide a team of talented engineers. In this pivotal role, you'll drive the development of end-to-end software solutions while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and agile practices. Your ability to mentor and build relationships will be key as you navigate a fast-paced environment, ensuring that your team delivers impactful results. If you're passionate about technology and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity awaits you to make a significant difference in shaping the future of software engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, ideally in Extreme Programming.
• 4+ years in technical leadership and people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a team of engineers to deliver software solutions.
• Guide teams in creating software that meets business needs.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Empathy

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Problem-Solving

Continuous Delivery

Distributed Systems Architecture

Mobile Development

Tools

AWS

DevOps Tools

Job description

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 the 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.

Lead a specific domain of our product.

Contribute to the wider tech organization by leading strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

The following experience is relevant to us:

1. Great product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our engineers.
2. Empathetic and able to easily build relationships (Stakeholder & Dependency Management).
3. Able to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery.
4. Able to help others understand the value of continuous flow of value and the role of technical practices to enable it.
5. Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
6. Able to transfer knowledge via mentoring and coaching.
7. Strong Stakeholder and Dependency management via proactive communication.
8. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating compelling written narratives to get the key stakeholders engaged.
9. Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
10. Good understanding of lean / agile values & principles and associated practices.
11. 8+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within an Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring).
12. 4+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
13. Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services).
14. Experience building, maintaining & improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery.
15. Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and scaling of web apps and APIs.
16. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
17. Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends / emerging tech.
18. Proficient in testing with a focus on automated end-to-end quality.
19. Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
20. Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, and security standards.
21. Wide experience in different technology stacks, tools, and practices such as DevOps.