Software Development Engineer

Overview

is a technology leader with a simple mission: to be the best place to buy and sell things. In doing this, we hope to accelerate the digital economy of the Middle East, empowering regional talent and businesses to meet the full range of consumers' online needs.

noon operates without boundaries; we are aggressively and voraciously ambitious. Starting in 2017 with , the region’s homegrown e-commerce platform and leading online shopping destination, noon is now a digital ecosystem of products and services.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture:
  Leading the architectural vision for noon’s mobile applications, ensuring performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability of our systems.
• Cultivating Product Engineers:
  Moving beyond task delegation to mentor and grow "Product Engineers"—developers who understand the why behind the features and contribute to the product's success beyond just the code.
• Bench Building:
  Proactively identifying, hiring, and developing talent to build a strong "bench." You will be responsible for succession planning and ensuring the team has the depth to handle aggressive growth.
• Agile Excellence:
  Operating as a cornerstone in a high-velocity Agile/Scrum environment. You will lead technical grooming, assist in sprint planning, and ensure that the team delivers high-quality increments consistently.
• Performance Engineering:
  Championing the optimization of app vitals, specifically TTR (Time to Render), FPS stability, and bundle size to ensure a "liquid" user experience across all device tiers.
• Security Standards:
  Promoting and implementing mobile security best practices. You will ensure the team is aligned with industry standards such as OWASP MASVS, implementing measures like SSL Pinning, secure storage, and code obfuscation.
• Engineering Excellence:
  Establishing "guardrail" systems, such as automated performance regression testing and static analysis to identify potential security vulnerabilities early in the SDLC.
• REST Strategy:
  Collaborating with Backend Architects to design mobile-optimized RESTful interfaces that prioritize payload efficiency, caching, and offline-first capabilities.

• Experience:
  
  6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 5 years specializing in high-scale React Native applications.
• Leadership & Growth Mindset: A proven track record of growing engineers from SDE-1/2. You have a passion for building teams and creating a pipeline of future technical leaders.
• Agile Mastery:
  Deep experience with Scrum methodologies, including a strong understanding of how to manage technical debt within a fast-paced sprint cycle.
• Product Sense:
  An ability to think like a Product Manager. You advocate for the user and can translate business requirements into robust technical architectures.
• Native Expertise:
  Deep, "under-the-hood" knowledge of iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java) to bridge the gap between React Native and the hardware.
• Security Awareness:
  Deep understanding of mobile-specific threats and security frameworks (e.g., OWASP). Experience with biometric authentication, secure token handling (JWT/OAuth2), and data encryption.
• Performance Engineering:
  Proficiency in profiling tools (Flipper, Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler) to identify memory leaks, over-rendering, and bridge bottlenecks.
• Tooling & Dev Ops:
  Expertise in build tools (Metro, Gradle, Xcodebuild) and CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane, Bitrise, or Git Hub Actions) for automated mobile deployments.

We are looking for an Engineering Leader who is "Better Everyday." You are someone who finds as much joy in a junior engineer's promotion as you do in a successful feature launch. You don’t just solve the problem in front of you; you build the people and the systems that prevent those problems from occurring for millions of users. If you are bold, original, and obsessed with growing both products and people, come join us on our mission.