Software Engineer II - Backend Shopping Tribe - Delivery Hero

A little bit about our engineering culture

Shorten Feedback Loops: we optimize for flow of value in small batches so that we can learn faster and minimize waste. This applies to how we build systems communicate with each other etc

Quality enables Speed: we adhere to XP Lean and Continuous Delivery practices to deliver value with the highest quality/security in a sustainable way

Productminded Engineers: we all have a good understanding of our business & customer problems to minimize costly handovers and ensure we solve problems more effectively and faster

Role summary

• Alongside your crossfunctional team (engineering product data) participate in continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes

• Design write and release software as a solution to an endtoend problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards

• Understand scalability & complexity of your services and own & innovate the entire SDLC

• Support optimization of your teams practices to develop it into a selforganized continuously improving unit

• Critically question and simplify our tech org systems/processes and solutions

Note:

On top of very good technical skills this role requires someone willing to assume endtoend ownership of a specific area/initiative and thrives on emphasizing with their user pains/desires/needs. You are keen to explore alternative ways of working that optimize for cocreation and continuous improvement.

The following experience is relevant to us

• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Humble curious and openminded with a growth mindset thriving on continuous feedback

• Understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices

• 3 years of software engineering experience preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD Pair Programming Simple Design and Continuous Refactoring) with predominant languages being .NET Golang and C#

• Experience in testing with focus on automated end to end quality

• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices EventDriven and RESTful Services)

• 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

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