Manager Engineering

Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily. Here at talabat, we are building a high performance culture through engaged workforce and growing talent density. We're all about keeping it real and making a difference. Our 6,000+ strong talabaty are on an awesome mission to spread positive vibes. We are proud to be a multi great place to work award winner.Job DescriptionA little bit about our engineering cultureWe 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 SummaryAlongside your team counterparts (product, design, data), understand your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy to drive desire outcomesLead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize and discover, innovate, implement, deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutionsDevelop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a hyper-growing, highly competitive economic environmentGuide 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 toour customers in small batchesQualificationsThe following experience is relevant to usGreat product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our customersAble to balance between continuous product discovery and deliveryExperience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineersAbility to guide & elevate talent via mentoring and coachingStrong Stakeholder and Dependency management via proactive communicationExcellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating compelling written narratives to get the key stakeholders engagedHumble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedbackGood understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within ExtremeProgramming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experienceExperience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)Experience building, maintaining & improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous DeliverySolid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIsSolid understanding of the full mobile development life cycleStrong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging techProficient in testing with focus on automated end to end qualityExperience with cloud platforms, preferably AWSStrong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and securitystandards