Software Engineer I - Backend

A little bit about talabat
talabat is the leading online food and groceries ordering platform in MENA, operating in 9 countries
across the region. 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.


A little bit about our engineering culture
We love finding new ways to shorten the feedback loops, create together and make an impact. To do
so, 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. For us, quality enables speed. 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. We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand the context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and find
more purpose in their work

Role summary
● Alongside other engineers and members of your team (product, data), participate in
continuous discovery of your customer/business needs/desires/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 & 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

The following experience is relevant to us
● 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 some software development
experience, preferably with .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 (e.g.AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
● Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field