Manager Engineering - Fintech, Lending
Delivery Hero
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
in their work.Role Summary/ Role Responsibilities
- 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 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
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
- Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
- 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Experience building & leading cross-functional, empowered and self-organized teams of multidisciplinary engineers
- Ability to transfer knowledge via mentoring and coaching
- Strong Stakeholder and Dependency management via proactive communication
- Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
- Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and continuous deployment
- Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs
- Strong understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
- Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech
- Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Strong understanding of quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security standards
- 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
As the region's leading local tech organization, we're 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 world's leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide