Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Experience

The role

You will build innovative new features and prepare technology to scale. You will own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering teams
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software
• Take features from design to implementation, polish, shipping, monitoring and measuring progress
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices
• Design and build a cloud-native platform
• Improve CI/CD workflows
• Help shape engineering culture by introducing good practices and knowledge-sharing

Required qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

• 4+ 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

About the company

Ziina has laid a strong foundation upon which they have shipped their product. They are looking to build innovative new features and shape their engineering organization.