Manager Engineering
On-site · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Summary
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.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or Flutter)
- 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring, performance, career development)
- Deep understanding of mobile app architecture — able to 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 — CI/CD for mobile and driving 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: 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
- Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile apps
- AWS or cloud platform experience
- Experience working across time zones or with distributed teams
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