7 months ago
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build internal tools, service templates, and shared libraries that define golden paths for backend services.
- Improve local development, debugging, and testing workflows for backend engineers.
- Design and maintain testing frameworks and CI-integrated quality systems.
- Develop self-service capabilities for common engineering workflows.
- Improve visibility into system quality and release confidence across the engineering organization.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify workflow friction and solve it through better tooling.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, or Developer Experience roles.
- Strong backend engineering skills, ideally with TypeScript and Node.js, and a deep understanding of microservices and service-to-service communication patterns.
- Hands-on experience building internal tooling, shared libraries, or service templates used by other engineers.
- Experience with testing frameworks, CI integration, and trusted engineering quality signals.
- A product mindset for internal tools, treating colleagues as users and measuring success through productivity.
- Use of current AI tools and technologies to improve productivity.
- Based in or willing to relocate to the UAE.
- Preferred: experience building developer platforms or tooling at fintech or high-scale engineering organizations.
- Preferred: a record of creating widely adopted golden paths, service templates, or shared libraries.
- Preferred: measurable improvements in engineering velocity, release confidence, or code quality through tooling.
- Preferred: experience shaping engineering standards, testing practices, or quality frameworks.
- Preferred: active technology community engagement through open source, conference speaking, or technical writing.
Benefits
- The role is based in or requires openness to relocating to the UAE.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSElasticsearchGitHub ActionsKotlinKubernetesNestJSNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLReactRedisSwiftSwiftUITerraformTypeScript
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.