Engineering Manager - Cairo

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we'd be pretty surprised
if talabat didn't pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order
in Kuwait in ‎2004, we've grown quite a lot over the past ‎17 years.
Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other
products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region
with more than ‎3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over
‎27,000 brands and almost ‎50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept,
talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan,
Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in ‎30 minutes or less!
Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our
customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which
we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and
convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through
donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus
on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in ‎2020, we have
facilitated the donation of well over ‎1 million meals to those in need, as
well as donated over $‎1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and
customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food
delivery and q-commerce.
As 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 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
* Understand your business domain and work with product as well as the business stakeholders to drive desired outcomes

The following experience is relevant to us
* ‎6+ years of experience in software engineering
* ‎2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and 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
* Proficient 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
Benefits

Working within talabat means access to perks and benefits that are adjusted to
your circumstances:
*
Dynamic & innovative environment where you're 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