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About Us 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.
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About Us
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.
Were part of the Delivery Hero network spanning 50+ countries.
****Job Description****
About This Role
- Were looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams building the talabat consumer experience on iOS and Android.
- Youll own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily — from discovery and ordering to real-time tracking and payments.
- This is a hands-on leadership role.
- You wont be writing code daily, but youll be close enough to the codebase to make informed architectural decisions, unblock your engineers, and maintain high technical standards.
- Youll lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers and partner closely with product, design, and backend teams.
- We practice eXtreme Programming (XP) principles — including pair programming, TDD, and continuous delivery.
- If you havent worked in an XP environment before, thats fine — what matters is that you believe quality enables speed and youre excited to lead in this way.
- ****What Youll 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 teams delivery rhythm, and key stakeholder relationships.
- Youve 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.
- Youve measurably improved at least one dimension of team health — whether thats cycle time, test coverage, onboarding speed, or engineer satisfaction.
- By 12 months
- : Youve 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
- Youre 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
- Youre not comfortable with pair programming or collaborative coding practices
**Your Career Growth Path:**
Talabat Operates a Structured Career Framework With Clearly Defined Levels For Engineering Leaders.
As a Mobile Engineering Manager, Youll 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.
Job Details
Role Level: Mid-Level Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Company Website: http://www.talabat.com Job Function: Engineering Company Industry/
Sector: Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting
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