Sr. Engineering Manager

What youll own

As Senior Engineering Manager youll lead multiple engineering teams (typically 4 squads 20 engineers) across a single technical domain. Youre accountable for:

• Domain-level technical strategy  Work with product leadership and your teams to define a 1218 month technical vision for your domain
• Team health and growth  Build an environment where engineers thrive: hiring developing ICs mentoring junior managers and creating psychological safety
• Delivery excellence  Guide your teams through discovery planning and execution using small-batch delivery and continuous feedback loops
• Business impact  Translate product objectives into technical solutions; quantify and communicate the impact of your domains work
• Cross-functional leadership  Work closely with product design and business partners to resolve ambiguity and drive alignment
• Technical decision-making  Guide your teams on system design architecture and engineering practices while maintaining talabats standards for scalability security and performance

90-day 6-month and 12-month outcomes

90 days: Youve onboarded your teams understood their technical roadmap and pain points and delivered your first feedback to your manager on domain health and near-term priorities.

6 months: Your teams are shipping value consistently; youve identified one emerging technical leader and started mentoring them; youve coached your teams through at least one cross-domain initiative; code quality and shipping velocity are on track or improving.

12 months: Your domain has a clear technical vision communicated across the org; youve grown at least one engineer significantly (either toward IC4/Staff or toward management); your teams ship with confidence; youre contributing to 12 strategic initiatives beyond your domain; youre mentoring or developing a potential future manager.

Qualifications :

What youll bring

Leadership & people management

• 4 years of hands-on technical leadership experience managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to hire mentor and grow engineers we care about your track record of developing people not just technical skills
• Comfort with cross-functional leadership: working with product design business partners and other engineering teams
• Emotional intelligence: you navigate ambiguity handle conflict constructively and create psychological safety for your teams

Technical depth

• 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience in production systems
• Deep understanding of at least one of: distributed systems backend systems data platforms mobile platforms or web-scale infrastructure
• Proven ability to work across diverse technology stacks  we care that youve made architecture decisions that matter not that youve used every specific tool
• Hands-on understanding of XP practices: TDD pair programming continuous refactoring and trunk-based development (or strong willingness to learn and lead talabats approach)

Engineering sense

• You think about non-functional requirements: scalability reliability latency cost efficiency and security not just feature delivery
• Youve navigated the tradeoffs between speed and technical debt; you know when to optimize and when to simplify
• Youve led or been part of domain-level decisions (tech stack migrations architectural changes platform initiatives)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading multiple teams or a domain in a high-growth environment
• Exposure to eXtreme Programming practices (XP culture is learnable but experience is valuable)
• Background in marketplace delivery or logistics optimization
• Experience mentoring or developing other engineering managers
• Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure)

Additional Information :

Why this role why talabat

• Scale with purpose: Youll impact millions of daily orders across MENA while building a technical foundation thats proven to scale
• Engineering culture that works: We practice XP genuinely TDD pair programming continuous delivery not as Agile theater. Our engineers ship faster because we focus on quality
• Autonomous teams: Your teams own their roadmap and their quality. Youre not a bottleneck; youre an enabler
• Mentoring and growth: If you want to grow into a Director role we have a clear path: multi-domain scope tribe leadership org strategy
• Real problems: Food delivery in MENA is complex. Youll solve problems that matter: serving millions operating across 8 countries balancing fast delivery with sustainability

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1