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.

The Following experience is relevant to us:

• Great product sense for selecting the opportunities which deliver impact to our engineers

• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships (Stakeholder & Dependency Management)

• Able to balance between continuous product discovery and delivery

• 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

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating compelling written narratives to get the key stakeholders engaged

• Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback

• Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)

• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience

• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)

• Experience building, maintaining & improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery

• Solid experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and scaling of web apps and APIs

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

• Strong familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech