Engineering Manager

HungerStation.com is the leading online food ordering platform connecting thousands of restaurants with their customers across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & Bahrain. Through its state-of-the-art tech and advanced logistics HungerStation has partnered with more than 30k + restaurants: enabling our customers with a greater choice and supporting the food delivery ecosystem. As well as fast food delivery, you can also order Groceries, Pharmacies, Flowers, Electronics and more creating a seamless experience of convenience for our customers.

We’re all about bringing on the smartest minds as we continue to grow in a fast-moving and agile environment; and hire those who can thrive in an e-commerce culture.

We are looking for a highly talented Engineering Manager to join our team in Dubai. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create direct impact, then this may be the place for you! The ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player, comfortable working as a leader, supporting a team, and working closely with the management teams to drive strategic initiatives forward across the region.

Responsibilities

• Defining the strategic direction of your team and you will contribute to the technical strategy for the entire Hungerstation consumer products.
• You will guide and coach an exceptional team of engineers, mentoring them in technical and non-technical aspects and lead them to build stable, scalable and reliable features and services.
• You will help them to shape their individual careers and grow the team to become more self organised, more agile and more autonomous.
• You establish and grow the right Engineering Practices with your team (e.g. TDD, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies, etc.) in order to improve the engagement of your team, the speed of delivery and the quality of the features and services you own.
• Together with a product manager you will lead the projects your team owns, this includes stakeholder and dependency management, creating roadmaps, alignment, and cost management
• You’ll play an active role in evolving our overall architecture, especially for those systems and products owned by your team.
• Scaling different processes of the organization such as engineering hiring and onboarding.

Requirements

• You have more than 8 years of overall experience with no less than 2 years of experience leading a team.
• You work hand in hand with your team to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change
• You know how to coach or mentor your team, how to evolve the team structure and processes using Agile methodologies and you have a track record of hiring the best international talent for your team.
• Good understanding of product and business KPIs and how to translate those into goals using the OKR framework. You are good in managing project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• You know the right frameworks, practices and approaches for solving complex problems on a technical and organizational level
• You’ve played a major role building complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
• You’re expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of databases and their tradeoffs, like Postgresql, MySQL and NoSQL
• As a manager of software engineers you have hands-on programming experience (using Golang, Java, RoR, Swift, or Kotlin) as well as a solid knowledge of designing and creating cloud based, distributed and scalable system architectures.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills

What Hungerstation Offers

• We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
• Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community.
• Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
• Access our e-learning platform MyAcademy and participate in our various inhouse training, including German learning options.
• And much more…