Mobile Engineering Manager
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About the Role
talabat is looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of their mobile engineering teams building the consumer experience on iOS and Android. You will own delivery of features used by millions daily, lead a team of 6-10 engineers, and partner with product, design, and backend teams.
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Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
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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.
About This Role
- We're looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams building the talabat consumer experience on iOS and Android.
- You'll own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily.
- This is a hands on leadership role.
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
Qualifications
- 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
- Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience
- Strong automated testing mindset
- Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts
- Comfort working in a fast paced, iterative environment
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
Your Career Growth Path
- Engineering Manager — You lead a single team, own delivery and people development
- Senior Engineering Manager — You lead multiple teams or a full domain
- Engineering Director — You lead engineering across a tribe or multiple domains
- Senior Engineering Director — You lead engineering across multiple tribes or an entire product line
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