Automation Engineer

• Have 2+ years building automations, internal tools, or backend systems in a professional setting. • Write code that's production-ready and can sit alongside engineering work without hand-holding. • Have hands-on experience with at least one low-code platform such as n8n, Retool, or Zapier. • Are comfortable querying and working directly with production databases using SQL. • Have experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and stitching systems together. • Write things down so others can own what you build — clear runbooks, input/output specs, and handoff materials are second nature. • Can prioritise across competing requests from multiple teams, make decisions with incomplete information, and ship without hand-holding. • Bring a builder mentality: high integrity, clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and genuine motivation to make other people's work easier. • What would amaze us • Experience with ML in production — risk/fraud models. • Familiarity with Git workflows, code review processes, and CI/CD basics. • Background in fintech, payments, or regulated industries. • Experience building for non-technical stakeholders (compliance, finance, operations teams). • Exposure to process design or business operations — understanding how teams actually work helps you automate the right things. • 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.