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 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 c 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 other We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand t context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and fi more purpose in their work.
Role summary
- Alongside other engineers and members of your team (product, data), participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes
- With guidance from other engineers, 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
- Participate in optimization of your team’s practices to develop it into a self-organized, continuously improving unit
- Seek mentorship to become a product engineer capable of solving a business problem, end-to-end
Qualifications
- Empathetic and able to easily build relationships with other engineers
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback Good knowledge of foundational software engineering with some software development experience, preferably with .NET, Golang or C# programming languages
- Exposed to testing with focus on automated end to end quality
- Understands basics of Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services)
- Understands basics of relational and nonrelational databases as well as cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field
Top Skills
What We Do
As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you’re from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero
