About The Role

Ziina is looking for a Senior 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 usersOwn 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 progressFoster a high-performance culture by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and growDesign and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testingImprove CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new featuresHelp shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharingKey skills and characteristicsBe an owner and a team playerBe curious and eager to growBe able to define and effectively communicate technical and design requirementsBe able to write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented codePossess strong data-driven thinking and customer focusPossess excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborateLive in, or be willing to relocate to the UAEWhat would amaze us4+ years developing softwareExperience working on systems that handle moneyExperience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or KafkaExperience shipping and maintaining complex backendsOur tech stackWe’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 backendSwift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android appNext.js, React and Typescript for our web applicationsGraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communicationPostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searchingAWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloadsTerraform for IaCGithub Actions for CI/CD