3 months ago
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMid Level
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with operations, compliance, risk, customer support, product, and engineering teams to understand workflows and identify tooling and automation opportunities.
- Improve and extend workflows in the existing third-party back-office solution, including its integrations and supporting services.
- Help define and incrementally build Ziina’s in-house back-office platform from discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Translate complex operational processes into intuitive, reliable experiences with appropriate permissions, safeguards, and auditability.
- Establish patterns for internal interfaces and service integrations while ensuring critical workflows are tested, monitored, and resilient to failure.
- Independently own features and communicate tradeoffs clearly from discovery through production.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of full-stack development experience across web applications, APIs, backend services, and relational databases.
- Experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Nest.js.
- Experience building internal tools, administrative platforms, operational dashboards, or workflow-management systems is preferred.
- Experience designing permissions, approval workflows, audit logs, and controls for sensitive operations is preferred.
- Experience with GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and event-driven or asynchronous workflows is preferred.
- Ability to understand operational workflows, structure ambiguous requirements, work independently, and balance delivery speed with security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical collaborators and a team-first mindset.
- Based in or willing to relocate to the UAE.
Benefits
- The role is based in or requires openness to relocating to the UAE.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSElasticsearchGitHub ActionsKubernetesNestJSNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLReactRedisTerraformTypeScript
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About Ziina
Ziina builds a mobile payments app and money transfer platform for consumers and small businesses in the UAE, enabling instant peer-to-peer transfers and business payments. It monetizes through payment processing and related financial services and is licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dubai, it focuses on the Middle East market.