About Alaan
Alaan is the Middle East’s first AI-powered spend management platform, built to help businesses save time and money.
Our all-in-one solution combines smart corporate cards, real-time expense tracking, AI-powered automation, seamless accounting integrations, and deep financial insights- designed to simplify finance operations and maximize control over company spend.
Founded in 2022, Alaan is already the trusted partner of over 2,000 leading businesses across the UAE and KSA, including G42, Careem, McDonald’s, Tabby, Al Barari, Rove Hotels, Rivoli, and CarSwitch. Together, our customers have saved over AED 100 million with Alaan.
In just three years, Alaan has become the #1 expense management platform in the Middle East- and we’ve done it while becoming profitable.
Alaan is also backed by Y Combinator and top global investors, including Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), and built by a world-class team with experience from McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Careem, Rippling, and other high-growth companies. This creates an environment where employees learn from top-tier talent while building at startup speed.
We’re not just building software. We’re reimagining how finance works for modern businesses across the region.
About the roleAs a Frontend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing user interfaces that are both intuitive and visually stunning, using Next.js, React and Tailwind. You’ll collaborate closely with UX/UI designers and backend developers to bring new features to life, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience. Your expertise will be crucial in building responsive and high-performance web applications. If you have a passion for problem-solving and a keen eye for detail, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our product and its users.
What you'll do- Working closely with the product and backend team to implement new features
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional features
- Tech planning with respective technical leads
- Refactoring and improving existing features of the product based on best practices, changing requirements, and feedback from QA
- Reviewing your peers’ code to keep our code base clean and extensible
- Exchanging ideas with the design team to improve the user experience
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to innovate and enhance our frontend stack
- 2+ years of frontend experience with React
- Experience with Typescript, Next.js, Tailwind, Radix UI, ShadCN UI
- Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to turn hi-fi designs such as Figma into pixel-perfect UI
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Previous startup experience is a bonus
- Higher education degree from a tier 1 college (IITs, NITs, BITS) is a bonus
- Good communication skills
- Contribute to building the Middle East’s most beloved fintech brand from the ground up
- Benefit from a role with significant ownership and accountability
- Thrive in a flexible hybrid culture with ample work-life balance
- Participate in exciting offsite events
- Competitive salary and equity
- Enjoy additional perks like travel allowances, gym memberships, and more
Skills Required
- 2+ years of frontend experience with React
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with Next.js
- Experience with Tailwind
- Experience with Radix UI
- Experience with ShadCN UI
- Ability to turn hi-fi designs such as Figma into pixel-perfect UI
- Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Good communication skills
- Previous startup experience
- Higher education degree from a tier 1 college (IITs, NITs, BITS)
What We Do
Alaan is the SuperCard™ for businesses and the most loved fintech in the Middle East. With the SuperCard, businesses get more than just a card - they get speed, control, and intelligence built in. Our mission is to simplify finance for businesses so they can save time and money. Alaan has everything businesses need to manage and control their expenses - the SuperCard, AI-powered automation and insights, streamlined accounting, and centralised dashboards, all in one place. Over 2000+ businesses in the UAE and KSA, from startups to enterprises - G42, Lulu Exchange, Rivoli, Tabby, Foodics - use Alaan to control their spending and save costs. From 2022 to now, our customers have saved over 1.5Mn hours by using Alaan.
