Sr. Software Engineer - Backend - 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.
We 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 Summary:
* Alongside your cross-functional team (engineering, product, data), participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes
* Design, write and release software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards.
* Understand scalability & complexity of your services and own & innovate the entire SDLC
* Mentor and inspire other engineers and continually optimize your team's practices to develop it into a self-organized, continuously improving unit
* Critically question and simplify our tech org systems/processes and solutions.

Note:
On top of very good technical skills, this role requires someone willing to
assume end-to-end ownership of a specific area/initiative and thrives on
emphasizing with their user pains/desires/needs. You are keen to explore
alternative ways of working that optimize for co-creation and continuous
improvement.
The following experience is relevant to us:
* Empathetic and able to easily build relationships
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback
* Understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
* Ability to mentor other engineers
* ‎5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
* Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
* Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
* Experience working with relational and nonrelational databases
* Exposed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
* Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery.

Benefits
Working within talabat means access to perks and benefits that are adjusted to
your circumstances - i.e. whether you like to work remotely or in the office.
* 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 / WFH setup package
* Competitive remuneration