Manager Engineering

Company Description** **About Us

What You'Ll Do

• Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features
• Own mobile release quality — drive testing strategy, monitor crash rates and performance metrics, and maintain release cadence
• Partner with product managers and designers to shape what gets built, balancing user impact with technical feasibility
• Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularisation, dependency injection, reactive patterns, navigation architecture)
• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations
• Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams
• Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across talabat
• What success looks like:
• **By 90 days**: You understand the mobile codebase, the team's delivery rhythm, and key stakeholder relationships.
• You've completed 1:1s with every team member and have a clear picture of strengths and growth areas.
• **By 6 months**: Your team is shipping incremental value consistently.
• You've measurably improved at least one dimension of team health — whether that's cycle time, test coverage, onboarding speed, or engineer satisfaction.
• **By 12 months**: You've shaped the technical roadmap for your area, developed at least one engineer toward their next career milestone, and established yourself as a trusted partner to product and design leadership.
• **Qualifications** **You must have**
• 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross-platform)
• 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring, performance, career development)
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture — you can evaluate trade-offs between native vs cross-platform, modular vs monolithic, and different state management approaches
• Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience
• Strong automated testing mindset — you believe in CI/CD for mobile and have driven testing culture in a team
• Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative environment where priorities shift based on customer data
• **Bonus if you have**:
• Experience with XP practices (TDD, pair/mob programming, trunk-based development)
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture
• Experience with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose specifically
• Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile apps
• AWS or cloud platform experience
• Experience working across time zones or with distributed teams
• This role is for you if...
• You get energy from growing engineers, not just shipping code
• You care about mobile craft — smooth animations, fast launch times, accessible interfaces
• You're comfortable making technical calls even when the data is incomplete
• You want to lead at a company where mobile IS the product, not an afterthought
• This role is NOT for you if...
• You want a pure people-management role with no technical depth
• You prefer stable, slow-moving environments with long planning cycles
• You're not comfortable with pair programming or collaborative coding practices
• **Additional Information** **Your career growth path:**
• Talabat operates a structured career framework with clearly defined levels for engineering leaders.
• As a Mobile Engineering Manager, you'll enter an established progression that rewards growing impact, strategic ownership, and people leadership:
• **Engineering Manager** — You lead a single team, own delivery and people development, and build the engineering culture within your squad.
• Your direct impact is at the squad and domain level.
• **Senior Engineering Manager** — You lead multiple teams or a full domain.
• You set technical direction across squads, grow the next generation of managers, and own domain-level strategy with a longer planning horizon.
• **Engineering Director** — You lead engineering across a tribe or multiple domains.
• You define technical vision, partner with senior business leaders, and are accountable for quality and delivery at scale.
• **Senior Engineering Director** — You lead engineering across multiple tribes or an entire product line.
• You shape company-wide technical strategy, build director-level talent, and represent engineering at the executive level.