Software Engineer II - Flutter

About talabat

Founded in Kuwait in 2004, talabat has become the premier on-demand food and quick-commerce platform serving eight countries in the Middle East. With deep local roots, talabat understands the community's needs and simplifies everyday life by leveraging advanced technology. The company supports restaurants, local shops, and riders by providing optimized operations and reliable earning opportunities. With a workforce of over 6,000 employees, talabat fosters a high-performance culture dedicated to making a positive impact and has earned multiple Great Place to Work awards.

Engineering Culture

• Emphasizes rapid feedback loops to accelerate learning and reduce waste through delivering small batches of value.
• Ensures quality facilitates speed by adhering to Extreme Programming (XP), Lean methodologies, and Continuous Delivery to sustainably deliver secure and valuable software.
• Encourages a product-minded approach where engineers deeply understand business and customer issues to minimize handoffs and speed problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and data to continuously uncover customer and business needs, driving targeted outcomes.
• Design, develop, and deploy software solutions addressing end-to-end business problems while delivering incremental value following engineering standards.
• Own the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), understanding the scalability and complexity of services and driving innovation.
• Mentor peers and continually enhance team practices to foster a self-organizing and progressively improving team environment.
• Question existing technical systems and processes critically to simplify and optimize solutions within the technology organization.

Note

The role demands strong technical expertise combined with the willingness to take complete ownership of assigned initiatives. Success depends on empathy for user challenges and a commitment to experimenting with collaborative and continuous improvement methodologies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates empathy and easily establishes interpersonal connections.
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Exhibits humility, curiosity, and openness with a growth mindset, actively embracing ongoing feedback.
• Understands lean and agile principles and effectively applies them in daily practices.
• Has a minimum of 3 years' experience in software engineering, ideally in Extreme Programming environments involving Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring.
• At least 1 year of experience developing software with Flutter and Dart.
• Strong familiarity with the Flutter ecosystem including state management, dependency injection, and testing frameworks covering unit, widget, and integration tests.
• Basic knowledge of native mobile app development lifecycles for iOS and Android, including experience with Kotlin/Java and Swift/Objective-C frameworks.
• Proficient in automated testing with a strong focus on end-to-end quality assurance.
• Awareness of current mobile industry architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience using analytics and A/B testing tools.
• Skilled with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to maintain a stable, releasable codebase.