Ziina is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. We laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build out innovative new features, prepare our technology to scale, and help shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright minds from across the region and the world aspire to work for.
As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems and to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well. In short, we are looking for owners.
As a Backend Engineer at Ziina you will:
Collaborate with world-class product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine which features and solutions will deliver the most value for the business and the best experience for our users
Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress
Design and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features
Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing
Be an owner and a team player
Be curious and eager to grow
Be able to define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements
Be able to write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code
Possess strong data-driven thinking and customer focus
Possess excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate
Live in, or be willing to relocate to the UAE
3+ years developing software
Experience working on systems that handle money
Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Kafka
Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends
We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:
Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend
Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app
Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications
GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication
PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching
AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads
Terraform for IaC
Github Actions for CI/CD
Skills Required
- Be an owner and a team player
- Be curious and eager to grow
- Define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements
- Write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code
- Possess strong data-driven thinking and customer focus
- Possess excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate
- Live in, or be willing to relocate to the UAE
- 3+ years developing software
- Experience working on systems that handle money
- Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Kafka
- Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends
What We Do
Ziina is the fast, secure way to send and receive money in the UAE. Whether you’re building your business or settling up with friends, Ziina helps move your money forward. We’re on a mission to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. Because access isn’t a privilege — it’s a right. Licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE.
