Staff Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 24, 2026. Delivery Hero scores B on the Alion truth index.
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.
We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.
Here at talabat, we are building a high performance culture through engaged workforce and growing talent density. We're all about keeping it real and making a difference. Our 6,000+ strong talabaty are on an awesome mission to spread positive vibes. We are proud to be a multi great place to work award winner.
A little bit about our engineering culture
We love finding new ways to shorten the feedback loops, create together and make an impact. To do so, our engineering culture and practices are based on eXtreme Programming (XP), Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Continuous Delivery.
We believe that the assumption behind the “Speed vs Quality” mindset is flawed and that you can both have your cake and eat it too. For us, quality enables speed. Not in 2 years, but now.
Co-creating together with others through Pair and Mob programming helps us deliver more value sooner and find joy in our work by seeking productive human connections with others.
We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand the context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and find more purpose in their work.
Role Summary
As a Staff Software Engineer at talabat, you operate across multiple levels, including a team, domain as well as your chapter and the wider Tech org.
On a team level, you are the voice of your chapter, helping teams understand the Chapter direction and providing hands-on technical mentorship. You also might drive critical, complex initiatives impacting multiple teams.
On a domain level, you establish yourself as a partner to your Engineering, Product and Data counterparts (senior managers or directors, other senior engineers). You drive the improvement of systems and processes, simplifying what’s complex and removing bottlenecks. You drive the RFC review process to foster a broad insight into our overall app architecture.
On a chapter level, you are a key contributor to the evolution of your Chapter Vision & Strategy. You sponsor and drive the key Chapter initiatives and orchestrate mentorship efforts across the wider tech org.
On a tech org level, you contribute to the improvement of overall developer experience, from branding initiatives/hiring to helping individuals and teams be more effective. You critically question and drive improvement across the org.
Note:
On top of being the industry leader when it comes to your craft, this role requires someone willing to assume end-to-end ownership of a specific area of our system, willing to amplify your knowledge and support others to explore better ways of developing products.
- Empathetic and able to easily build relationships
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback
- Great understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
- Solid experience building large-scale applications using modern programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, Go, etc.).
- Proven ability to mentor other engineers
- 8+ years of software engineering experience of which 2+ years should be within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
- Expert in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, RESTful Services)
- Familiarity with the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends/emerging tech
- Proficient in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
- Experience working with relational and nonrelational databases
- Exposed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Experience building, maintaining and improving with Trunk Based Development and Continuous Delivery