Automation Engineer Talabat Dubai – United Arab Emirates Full-time

This role builds and scales mobile quality infrastructure that makes quality measurable, releases automatic, and developers faster. You will execute and maintain mobile CI/CD pipelines, implement automated quality guardrails, and support release automation within 1‑day to 3‑month planning cycles. Consequently, your work directly reduces manual code review time, prevents backend changes from breaking mobile apps, and gives product squads clear visibility on regressions – all while treating product engineers as your primary customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and maintain mobile CI/CD pipelines, therefore managing PR builds, caching strategies, and the in‑house macOS device farm.
• Implement automated app quality guardrails in CI that enforce performance, stability, and screen availability thresholds before code is merged.
• Support the automation of release infrastructure, completing tasks and iterations within standard 1‑day to 3‑month planning cycles.
• Build integrations that link crash logs and test results to observability dashboards, therefore contributing to team quality objectives.
• Automate the collection of incident data across mobile releases to provide clear visibility on regressions.
• Implement API and contract testing (e.g., Postman) within the CI pipeline to proactively block backend changes that break mobile apps.
• Build automated mock servers and test data generation scripts to stabilise end‑to‑end UI testing.
• Write and maintain automated linting rules and static analysis checks to catch architectural violations early, then implement scripts and bots that reduce manual code review time for product squads.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, SDET, or Platform/DevOps Engineer, aligning with talabat’s IC2 career progression.
• Strong programming ability in at least one language: TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, or Kotlin. You must write clean, maintainable production code.
• Hands‑on experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Jenkins, etc.) and writing shell scripts (Bash).
• Experience building or contributing to automated testing frameworks such as Maestro, Appium, XCUITest, or Espresso.
• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture and how frontend apps interact with backend services.
• High empathy for developer experience (DevX), viewing product engineers as your primary customers.
• System thinking mindset with ability to build quality infrastructure – not manual test execution.

What You’ll Gain

• Opportunity to shape mobile quality infrastructure at talabat, the leading on‑demand delivery app serving eight countries across the region, backed by Delivery Hero’s global platform.
• Competitive tax‑free monthly salary (AED 18,000–25,000) plus medical insurance, annual flight allowance, and end of service gratuity.
• Build systems that directly impact developer productivity and app quality, with autonomy to implement automated guardrails and release tooling.
• Work in a high‑performance culture with over 6,000 colleagues on a mission to spread positive vibes and keep it real.