Role 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 what s 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.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 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)
• 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