Staff Software Engineer

**Company Description**
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
**Job Description** A little bit about our engineering culture**

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**
- As a Staff Software Engineer at talabat, you operate across multiple levels, including a team, domain as well as your chapter and the wider Tech org.
- On a team level, you are the voice of your chapter, helping teams understand the Chapter direction and providing hands-on technical mentorship. You also might drive critical, complex initiatives impacting multiple teams.
- On a domain level, you establish yourself as a partner to your Engineering, Product and Data counterparts (senior managers or directors, other senior engineers). You drive the improvement of systems and processes, simplifying what’s complex and removing bottlenecks. You drive the RFC review process to foster a broad insight into our overall app architecture.
- On a chapter level, you are a key contributor to the evolution of your Chapter Vision & Strategy. You sponsor and drive the key Chapter initiatives and orchestrate mentorship efforts across the wider tech org.
- On a tech org level, you contribute to the improvement of overall developer experience, from branding initiatives/hiring to helping individuals and teams be more effective. You critically question and drive improvement across the org.

**Note**:
On top of being the industry leader when it comes to your craft, this role requires someone willing to assume end-to-end ownership of a specific area of our system, willing to amplify your knowledge and support others to explore better ways of developing products.

**Qualifications** The following experience is relevant to us**
- Empathetic and able to easily build relationships
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback
- Great understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
- Proven ability to mentor other engineers
- 8+ years of software engineering experience of which 2+ years should be within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
- Expert in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, RESTful Services)
- Familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech
- Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
- 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 Continous Delivery