Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Backend Engineer at Ziina, based in the UAE.

Role Purpose

Build innovative new features, prepare technology for scale, and help shape the engineering organization into a destination for talented engineers regionally and globally. The role combines hands-on feature delivery with mentorship and architectural leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Feature Ownership & Delivery

• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that keeps users' funds safe and stands the test of time.
• Take features from design through implementation, polish, shipping, monitoring, and measurement of progress.
• 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 users.

Engineering Culture & Mentorship

• Foster a high-performance culture by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and grow.
• Help shape engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Design and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing.
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features.

Qualifications & Experience

• 6+ years developing software.
• Experience working on systems that handle money.
• Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends.

Skills & Competencies

• Own and deliver as a team player.
• Be curious and eager to grow.
• Define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements.
• 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.
• Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or Kafka.

Additional Information

• Technology stack: Typescript, Node.js, Nest.js, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Next.js, React, GraphQL Federation, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions.
• Must live in or be willing to relocate to the UAE.