Manager Engineering

About this role:

Were looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams building the talabat consumer experience on iOS and Android. Youll own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily from discovery and ordering to real-time tracking and payments.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You wont be writing code daily but youll be close enough to the codebase to make informed architectural decisions unblock your engineers and maintain high technical standards. Youll lead a team of 610 mobile engineers and partner closely with product design and backend teams.

We practice eXtreme Programming (XP) principles including pair programming TDD and continuous delivery. If you havent worked in an XP environment before thats fine what matters is that you believe quality enables speed and youre excited to lead in this way.

What youll do:

• Lead a team of 610 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning building and shipping customer-facing features
• Own mobile release quality drive testing strategy monitor crash rates and performance metrics and maintain release cadence
• Partner with product managers and designers to shape what gets built balancing user impact with technical feasibility
• Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularisation dependency injection reactive patterns navigation architecture)
• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s pairing sessions and career development conversations
• Manage cross-team dependencies with backend platform and infrastructure teams
• Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across talabat

What success looks like:

By 90 days: You understand the mobile codebase the teams delivery rhythm and key stakeholder relationships. Youve completed 1:1s with every team member and have a clear picture of strengths and growth areas.
By 6 months: Your team is shipping incremental value consistently. Youve measurably improved at least one dimension of team health whether thats cycle time test coverage onboarding speed or engineer satisfaction.
By 12 months: Youve shaped the technical roadmap for your area developed at least one engineer toward their next career milestone and established yourself as a trusted partner to product and design leadership.

Qualifications :

You must have

• 6 years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS Android or cross-platform)
• 2 years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring performance career development)
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture you can evaluate trade-offs between native vs cross-platform modular vs monolithic and different state management approaches
• Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K DAU) with a focus on performance reliability and user experience
• Strong automated testing mindset you believe in CI/CD for mobile and have driven testing culture in a team
• Experience with mobile release management feature flagging and gradual rollouts
• Comfort working in a fast-paced iterative environment where priorities shift based on customer data

Bonus if you have:

• Experience with XP practices (TDD pair/mob programming trunk-based development)
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture
• Experience with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose specifically
• Background in e-commerce delivery or marketplace mobile apps
• AWS or cloud platform experience
• Experience working across time zones or with distributed teams

This role is for you if...

• You get energy from growing engineers not just shipping code
• You care about mobile craft  smooth animations fast launch times accessible interfaces
• Youre comfortable making technical calls even when the data is incomplete
• You want to lead at a company where mobile IS the product not an afterthought

This role is NOT for you if...

• You want a pure people-management role with no technical depth
• You prefer stable slow-moving environments with long planning cycles
• Youre not comfortable with pair programming or collaborative coding practices

Additional Information :

Your career growth path:

Talabat operates a structured career framework with clearly defined levels for engineering leaders. As a Mobile Engineering Manager youll enter an established progression that rewards growing impact strategic ownership and people leadership:

Engineering Manager You lead a single team own delivery and people development and build the engineering culture within your squad. Your direct impact is at the squad and domain level.
Senior Engineering Manager   You lead multiple teams or a full domain. You set technical direction across squads grow the next generation of managers and own domain-level strategy with a longer planning horizon.
Engineering Director You lead engineering across a tribe or multiple domains. You define technical vision partner with senior business leaders and are accountable for quality and delivery at scale.
Senior Engineering Director You lead engineering across multiple tribes or an entire product line. You shape company-wide technical strategy build director-level talent and represent engineering at the executive level.
 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time