Software Engineer Mobile Dev Enablement - Delivery Hero

Role summary:

The mission of the Product Engineering Enablement Tribe is to help reduce cognitive load and enable our Product Tribes to be successful by focusing on our biggest constraints across the engineers journey at talabat.

To spearhead this mission were looking for a passionate engineer who is keen to participate in the lived experience of our engineers to identify frictions they face in their daytoday surface those pain points to relevant teams and work with our Mobile Development Enabling Teams to remedy them.

As a Dev Enablement Engineer your primary role will be to:

• Identify & analyze the largest points of friction in the lived experience of our mobile engineers
• Provide insights & work with Mobile Development Enabling Teams in removing those frictions via solution implementation
• Enable successful adoption of solutions delivered by Mobile Development Enabling Teams

If youre a truly passionate developer advocate who enjoys surfacing & solving sociotechnical frictions across the wider tech organization this could be a perfect role for you. The role requires a combination of strong technical and social skills and provides an exciting career growth opportunity.

Focus areas:

• Maximizing flow
• Amplifying feedback loops
• Lowering cognitive load

Examples of problems to look at:

• Pipeline experience (automating the creation of new services for mobile releases)
• Observability & Performance monitoring/profiling tools (crash rates networking reliability logging)
• Improvement & scaling the app build test running flows
• PR process
• Repo documentation
• Flow state interruptions

The following experience is relevant to us

• 45 years of software engineering experience including system engineering
• Great at building relationships with key stakeholders (Enabling Teams talabat engineers)
• Great at analyzing frictions & selecting smallbatch opportunities that solve engineers problems (balancing discovery & implementation)
• Proficient in applying a datainformed approach to decisionmaking (utilizing relevant metrics to optimize processes and achieve measurable outcomes)
• Humble curious and openminded with a growth mindset

Below are technologies that we use to help us solve customer problems so it would be great if you have experience in some/all of the below:

• Solid experience in mobilespecific development (Android iOS Flutter)
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle as well as the overall landscape architectures and emerging tech. Understanding of backend life cycle is an advantage.
• Exposure to BFF GraphQL Authentication vs Authorization app versioning fragmentation
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools/techniques to always keep the development branch in a releasable state
• Knowledge of serverside languages (.Net Golang Python)
• Exposure to relational and nonrelational databases
• Experience with mobile observability tools (Sentry)

As the regions leading local tech organization were 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 qcommerce sustainable packaging cloud kitchens autonomous delivery vehicles robots and drones.
We deliver across 9 countries with more than 4500 employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27000 brands and almost 50000 branches.
Our qcommerce 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 worlds leading local delivery platform operating in 70 countries worldwide