Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features
• Own mobile release quality by driving testing strategy, monitoring performance metrics, and maintaining release cadence
• Partner with product managers and designers to shape product roadmaps and balance user impact with technical feasibility
• Make architectural decisions regarding mobile patterns, including modularization, dependency injection, and reactive patterns
• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations
• Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross-platform)
• 2+ years of experience leading and managing mobile engineering teams, including hiring and performance management
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture and the ability to evaluate technical trade-offs
• Proven experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on reliability and performance
• Strong automated testing mindset and experience with CI/CD for mobile
• Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with eXtreme Programming (XP) practices such as TDD and pair programming
• Familiarity with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture
• Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile applications
• Experience working with distributed teams across different time zones

About the Company

talabat is the leading food and grocery delivery platform across the MENA region, serving customers in 9 countries. Our mobile apps are the primary interface for hundreds of thousands of daily orders, and the engineering behind them directly shapes how millions of people eat, shop, and experience convenience. We are part of the Delivery Hero network, which spans over 50 countries.