Sr. Software Engineer - XP

Job Description

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we?d be pretty surprised if talabat didn?t pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we?ve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years.Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region with more than 3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.About Us:The culture we aspire to build might sound opinionated, but instead of using heavily overloaded terms in our industry like Agile, Continuous Integration, DevOps, quality, we prefer to say what these things actually mean for us by sharing our preferred ways of working.And to be clear, we are not there yet, but this is what we believe in and look for people to join us in the journey to get there.

• 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 eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Continuous Delivery
• We want to be responsive to change by keeping our codebase healthy and being able to demonstrate confidence that it works as expected. To do so, we embody eXtreme Programming practices such as:
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Pair and Mob Programming
  • Trunk Based Development (and we mean pushing straight to trunk and deploying multiple times per day)
  • Continuous Refactoring
  • Simple Design
• 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 means 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 while shortening the feedback loops
• Instead of optimizing for utilization of people, we optimize for availability and limiting the number of things we started but didn?t finish (limiting WIP) while reducing the size of the work items (small batches) in order to enable sooner feedback so we can learn as soon as possible if we?re on the wrong track
• 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 work

About you:If the above makes you feel like you?ve found the environment you?ve been searching for, here are some of the things that you should know:

• We?re looking for people who are keen to build this culture with us
• We?re looking for someone who has experience with XP practices and is willing to coach & mentor people who are keen to learn these practices
• Preferably, you?re interested in collaborating with others on different parts of the stack (web, mobile, backend). Don?t worry, if you are not an expert you?ll always have someone supporting you in the pair/mob session. #continuouslearning

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

• Dynamic & innovative environment where you?re 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

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