Ziina - Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Developer Experience)
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Requirements
• 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.
Responsibilities
• Have 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with a strong focus on infrastructure and developer experience • Have deep expertise with cloud services (ideally AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi • Are proficient with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes — and understand microservices architecture • Have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar) • Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and have a track record of improving incident response practices • Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity • Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE • What would amaze us: • Proven experience building infrastructure for fintech or other high-reliability, high-throughput platforms • A track record of tackling real scaling problems — reducing latency, improving resilience, or operating multi-region systems • History of building platform and developer experience tooling that measurably boosted engineering velocity • Successful leadership in major infrastructure evolution, including architectural transitions, migrations, or multi-region rollouts • Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing
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