# Sr. Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero > Open job at Delivery Hero in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Workplace: On-site. Source: Gulf Dev Jobs, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/delivery-hero-sr-engineering-manager-cjknu1z Posted 13 June 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 11 November 2026. ## Facts - Company: [Delivery Hero](https://gulfdevjobs.com/companies/delivery-hero) - Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Workplace: On-site - Employment type: Full-time - Arabic: Not required - Skills: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud - Not mentioned in the job post: salary, housing, flights, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from ## Job description #### Company Description talabat is the leading on-demand food and non-food delivery platform in MENA, operating across 8 countries and processing hundreds of millions of orders annually. We're part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce, and we're engineering-first. Our teams operate under **eXtreme Programming (XP) principles** — TDD, pair programming, continuous refactoring, and trunk-based development. We believe **quality enables speed**, and our hiring reflects that. Our engineering culture is a key competitive advantage, and we're looking for leaders who embody it. #### Job Description **What you'll own** As **Senior Engineering Manager**, you'll lead multiple engineering teams (typically 4 squads, ~20 engineers) across a single technical domain. You're accountable for: - **Domain-level technical strategy** — Work with product leadership and your teams to define a 12–18 month technical vision for your domain - **Team health and growth** — Build an environment where engineers thrive: hiring, developing ICs, mentoring junior managers, and creating psychological safety - **Delivery excellence** — Guide your teams through discovery, planning, and execution using small-batch delivery and continuous feedback loops - **Business impact** — Translate product objectives into technical solutions; quantify and communicate the impact of your domain's work - **Cross-functional leadership** — Work closely with product, design, and business partners to resolve ambiguity and drive alignment - **Technical decision-making** — Guide your teams on system design, architecture, and engineering practices while maintaining talabat's standards for scalability, security, and performance **90-day, 6-month, and 12-month outcomes** **90 days:** You've onboarded your teams, understood their technical roadmap and pain points, and delivered your first feedback to your manager on domain health and near-term priorities. **6 months:** Your teams are shipping value consistently; you've identified one emerging technical leader and started mentoring them; you've coached your teams through at least one cross-domain initiative; code quality and shipping velocity are on track or improving. **12 months:** Your domain has a clear technical vision communicated across the org; you've grown at least one engineer significantly (either toward IC4/Staff or toward management); your teams ship with confidence; you're contributing to 1–2 strategic initiatives beyond your domain; you're mentoring or developing a potential future manager. #### Qualifications **What you'll bring** **Leadership & people management** - 4+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience managing engineering teams - Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineers — we care about your track record of developing people, not just technical skills - Comfort with cross-functional leadership: working with product, design, business partners, and other engineering teams - Emotional intelligence: you navigate ambiguity, handle conflict constructively, and create psychological safety for your teams **Technical depth** - 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in production systems - Deep understanding of **at least one** of: distributed systems, backend systems, data platforms, mobile platforms, or web-scale infrastructure - Proven ability to work **across diverse technology stacks** — we care that you've made architecture decisions that matter, not that you've used every specific tool - Hands-on understanding of XP practices: TDD, pair programming, continuous refactoring, and trunk-based development (or strong willingness to learn and lead talabat's approach) **Engineering sense** - You think about non-functional requirements: scalability, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and security — not just feature delivery - You've navigated the tradeoffs between speed and technical debt; you know when to optimize and when to simplify - You've led or been part of domain-level decisions (tech stack migrations, architectural changes, platform initiatives) **Nice-to-haves** - Experience leading multiple teams or a domain in a high-growth environment - Exposure to eXtreme Programming practices (XP culture is learnable but experience is valuable) - Background in marketplace, delivery, or logistics optimization - Experience mentoring or developing other engineering managers - Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) #### Additional Information **Why this role, why talabat** - **Scale with purpose:** You'll impact millions of daily orders across MENA while building a technical foundation that's proven to scale - **Engineering culture that works:** We practice XP genuinely — TDD, pair programming, continuous delivery — not as Agile theater. Our engineers ship faster _because_ we focus on quality - **Autonomous teams:** Your teams own their roadmap and their quality. You're not a bottleneck; you're an enabler - **Mentoring and growth:** If you want to grow into a Director role, we have a clear path: multi-domain scope → tribe leadership → org strategy - **Real problems:** Food delivery in MENA is complex. You'll solve problems that matter: serving millions, operating across 8 countries, balancing fast delivery with sustainability ## How to apply Apply on the job page, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/delivery-hero-sr-engineering-manager-cjknu1z: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page. ## More jobs from Delivery Hero - [Engineering Manager - Applied AI](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/delivery-hero-engineering-manager-applied-ai-ecthdgi): Delivery Hero, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On-site. 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