Ziina - Senior Backend Engineer

• 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 • What would amaze us • 6+ 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 • AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads • Terraform for IaC • Github Actions for CI/CD • Ziina’s mission is to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. We are building MENA’s consumer and SMB financial platform, starting with a peer-to-peer and merchant wallet. Our team have backgrounds from Apple, Uber, Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payments volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved by the UAE and is the recipient of 8 international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. Our last round was a $22 million Series A from top-tier investors globally including Altos Ventures, Fintech Collective, Activant, Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator. Our angel investors include early employees and executives at Revolut, Stripe, Venmo, Brex, Checkout.com, Notion, and Deel.