Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Job Description

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 , , and 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 workRole 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 whats 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.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
• Solid experience building large-scale applications using modern programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Go, etc.).
• 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
• Solid experience building large-scale applications using modern programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Go, etc.)
• 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 Continuous Delivery

BenefitsWorking within talabat means access to perks and benefits that are adjusted to your circumstances:

• Dynamic & innovative environment where youre not constrained by the boundaries of your role
• Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of online food ordering services in the world
• Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 50+ nationalities
• Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Relocation package
• Competitive remuneration

Keyskills :
Java Microservices Testing Restful Services Continuous Delivery Go Relational Databases

About Company

Talabat (Arabic: طلبات, Ṭalabāt) is an online food ordering company founded in Kuwait in 2004. As of April 2021, Talabat operates in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. A subsidiary of Delivery Hero since 2016, Talabat became the largest online food ordering company in the Middle East.