Software Engineer - Backend

About Talabat

Talabat is the leading online food and groceries ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries. Founded in 2004 by a small group of entrepreneurs in Kuwait, talabat’s success expanded to the rest of the GCC region, Egypt & Jordan, making it the largest and most popular food ordering app. With over 2,000+ employees and millions of users, we deliver hundreds of thousands of orders every day.

We are part of the Delivery Hero network building the next generation of online delivery platforms across the globe. Our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13 countries and operations in 40+ countries.

We love finding new ways to shorten the feedback loops, create together and make an impact. Our engineering culture and practices are based on eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain‑Driven Design, Lean and Continuous Delivery. 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. 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.

Alongside other engineers and members of your team (product, data), you will:

• Participate in continuous discovery of customer/business needs, desires and problems to drive desired outcomes.
• With guidance from other engineers, design, write and release software as a solution to an end‑to‑end problem in your business domain and deliver value in small batches in accordance with our engineering standards.
• Understand scalability and complexity of your services.
• Participate in optimization of your team’s practices to develop it into a self‑organized, continuously improving unit.
• Seek mentorship to become a product engineer capable of solving a business problem, end‑to‑end.

• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships with other engineers.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Humble, curious and open‑minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
• Good knowledge of foundational software engineering with experience in .NET, Golang or C# programming languages.
• Exposed to testing with focus on automated end‑to‑end quality.
• Understands basics of Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event‑Driven and RESTful Services).
• Understands basics of relational and nonrelational databases as well as cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Preferred:
  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.

Role Level: Mid‑Level;
Work Type:
Full‑Time;
Country:
United Arab Emirates;
City:
Dubai;
Company Website: