Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable backend software that keeps users’ funds safe. Collaborate closely with product, design, operations, and engineering to deliver high-value features from design through implementation, polish, shipping, and monitoring. Help grow a high-performance engineering culture by mentoring engineers and setting best practices. Work on a cloud-native platform focused on observability, security, scalability, testing, and faster CI/CD time to market.

Location: Dubai

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering to determine features and solutions that maximize business value and user experience
•Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend software from design to implementation, shipping, and monitoring
•Mentor engineers and foster a high-performance culture with best practices so engineers can thrive and grow
•Design and build a cloud-native platform leveraging monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
•Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features and introduce knowledge-sharing practices

Key Requirements

•6+ 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
•Write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code while communicating technical requirements effectively

Experience:6+ years

Skills:OwnershipTeamworkCommunicationData-driven thinkingMentoring

Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsNest.jsSwiftSwiftUIKotlinNext.jsReactGraphQL FederationKafkaPostgresSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsCI/CDIaCGraphQL

Company Brief

Ziina

Provides fast, secure mobile payments and peer-to-peer money transfers in the UAE and GCC, enabling consumers and merchants to send, receive, and pay using phone numbers and QR codes, with a focus on low fees and simplified onboarding.

Industry: Payments

Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Ziina

1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Dubai

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering to determine features and solutions that maximize business value and user experience
•Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend software from design to implementation, shipping, and monitoring
•Mentor engineers and foster a high-performance culture with best practices so engineers can thrive and grow
•Design and build a cloud-native platform leveraging monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
•Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features and introduce knowledge-sharing practices

Key Requirements

•6+ 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
•Write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code while communicating technical requirements effectively

Experience:6+ years

Skills:OwnershipTeamworkCommunicationData-driven thinkingMentoring

Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsNest.jsSwiftSwiftUIKotlinNext.jsReactGraphQL FederationKafkaPostgresSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsCI/CDIaCGraphQL

Company Brief

Ziina

Industry: Payments

Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Website