Company DescriptionAs the regions leading local tech organization, were proud to say that we have been delivering for millions of people right across MENA for the past 18 years.
We were founded in Kuwait in 2004, and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015. This gives us a unique outlook - local knowledge with global expertise. It also allows us to innovate, create, and bring new technologies for the betterment of the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, autonomous delivery vehicles, robots, and drones.
We deliver across 9 countries with more than 4,500+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches.
Our q-commerce concept, talabat mart (121 Stores), now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the worlds leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide Summary
As Senior Engineering Manager, you will work on our next generation ordering platform to create a smooth and easy ordering experience for our customers. If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you.Core Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire talented engineers and create an environment where a cross-functional, self-organized team can thrive, working in an agile software development environment to 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 an end to end solution to a problem, taking into account non-functional 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
• Understand and lead your business domain and work with product as well as the business stakeholders to drive desired outcomes on the team and domain level.
• Contribute to the wider tech organization by leading strategic initiatives

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• 4+ years of hands-on technical leadership, people management experience
• Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers
• Align with other teams on initiative scope, domain and boundaries
• Analyze and identify possible initiative delays and ensure appropriate communication with team stakeholders
• Successfully transfer knowledge through teaching, mentoring and coaching
• Drive for clarity to ensure that the right customer/business 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
• Experience building iOS and Android mobile apps
• Experience working with agile practices and good understanding of lean/agile values & principles
• Experience 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

Additional InformationBenefits
Working within talabat means access to perks and benefits that are adjusted to your circumstances:

• Dynamic & innovative environment where youre not constrained by the boundaries of your role
• 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 50+ nationalities
• Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Relocation package
• Competitive remuneration

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