Software Engineering Manager

Hungerstation is the first Saudi Food delivery App in the region! Established in 2012. Today Hungerstation enables you to browse the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA that reach 35,000+ options.
In Hungerstation, we stand for our customers' satisfaction, partners’ loyalty and riders’ wellbeing, in addition to our expansion vision - always aiming higher and moving forward to the utmost levels of service platform. Hungerstation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

Job Description

We are looking for a highly talented Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Riyadh . If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on and team management experience and create direct impact, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player.

Responsibilities:

• Defining the strategic direction of your team and you will contribute to the technical strategy for the entire Hungerstation consumer products.

• You will guide and coach an exceptional team of engineers, mentoring them in technical and non-technical aspects and lead them to build stable, scalable and reliable features and services.

• You will help them to shape their individual careers and grow the team to become more self organised, more agile and more autonomous.

• You establish and grow the right Engineering Practices with your team (e.g. TDD, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies, etc.) in order to improve the engagement of your team, the speed of delivery and the quality of the features and services you own.

• Together with a product manager you will lead the projects your team owns, this includes stakeholder and dependency management, creating roadmaps, alignment, and cost management.

• You’ll play an active role in evolving our overall architecture, especially for those systems and products owned by your team.

• Scaling different processes of the organization such as engineering hiring and onboarding.

Qualifications

• You have more than 8 years of overall experience with no less than 2 years of experience leading a team.

• You work hand in hand with your team to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change.

• You know how to coach or mentor your team, how to evolve the team structure and processes using Agile methodologies and you have a track record of hiring the best international talent for your team.

• Good understanding of product and business KPIs and how to translate those into goals using the OKR framework. You are good in managing project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

• You know the right frameworks, practices and approaches for solving complex problems on a technical and organizational level.

• You’ve played a major role building complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.

• You’re expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms.

• Strong knowledge of databases and their tradeoffs, like Postgresql, MySQL and NoSQL.

• As a manager of software engineers you have hands-on programming experience (using Golang, Java, RoR, Swift, or Kotlin) as well as a solid knowledge of designing and creating cloud based, distributed and scalable system architectures. 

• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.

Additional Information

• We offer visa and relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
• Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech and product community.
• Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
• Access our e-learning platform LinkedIn and participate in our various in-house training programs
• And much more…