The Role

Ziina is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our team. We have laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build engaging new features, who is obsessive about delivering high quality products and can shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright young minds from across the region aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well.

As a Senior iOS Engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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 our users.
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress.
• Design and build a modern architecture that enables our team to build, test, and ship new features quickly.
• Improve mobile developer experience to reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.

To succeed in this role, you likely: 

• Have 5+ years of experience building iOS applications
• A strong background in Swift and/or Swift UI
• Demonstrate high integrity and a team-first mindset
• Take ownership and show initiative, with a strong bias toward action
• Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems
• Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn and grow
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
• Can define and articulate technical and design requirements
• Write clean, high-quality, testable, and well-documented code
• Think analytically, with strong data-driven decision-making and customer focus
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us

• A track record of working on apps that process financial transactions
• Experience with MVVM architectures
• Proven ability to ship and maintain apps at scale
• Confidence in tackling tough bugs, concurrency issues, and persistence challenges

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD.

The Role

Ziina is looking for an iOS Engineer to join our team. We have laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build engaging new features, who is obsessive about delivering high quality products and can shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright young minds from across the region aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well.

As an iOS engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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 our users.
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress.
• Design and build a modern architecture that enables our team to build, test, and ship new features quickly.
• Improve mobile developer experience to reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.

To succeed in this role, you likely: 

• Have 2+ years of experience building iOS applications
• Have a strong background in Swift and/or Swift UI.
• Demonstrate high integrity and a team-first mindset
• Take ownership and show initiative, with a strong bias toward action
• Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems
• Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn and grow
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
• Can define and articulate technical and design requirements
• Write clean, high-quality, testable, and well-documented code
• Think analytically, with strong data-driven decision-making and customer focus
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us

• A track record of working on apps that process financial transactions
• Experience with MVVM architectures
• Proven ability to ship and maintain apps at scale
• Confidence in tackling tough bugs, concurrency issues, and persistence challenges

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD.

The Role:

Ziina is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Experience to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity to shape the foundation that every Ziina engineer builds on: the infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability systems that keep our rapidly growing fintech platform fast, reliable, and easy to develop. We're at a major inflection point in our growth, with real multi-region and low-latency challenges at scale, and we're looking for the right person to drive the technical excellence that makes scaling possible.

As part of a small, agile team, our ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with the vision to build from the ground up and the skill to own systems end-to-end. You'll thrive in our fast-paced environment by making tradeoffs and focusing on high-impact solutions. We're looking for someone who is as ambitious as we are to deliver high-quality products to our users. In short, we want owners who are ready to build big things with us.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Experience at Ziina you will:

• Build and own scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports high-performance applications across multiple regions
• Own and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines and release workflows so that shipping is fast, safe, and predictable
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation across all environments to ensure consistency and reduce manual toil
• Improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response so problems are caught early and resolved quickly
• Reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability as we scale
• Enable engineering teams through reliable, efficient platform systems and self-service tooling

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Have 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with a strong focus on infrastructure and developer experience
• Have deep expertise with cloud services (ideally AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Are proficient with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes — and understand microservices architecture
• Have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar)
• Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and have a track record of improving incident response practices
• Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us:

• Proven experience building infrastructure for fintech or other high-reliability, high-throughput platforms
• A track record of tackling real scaling problems — reducing latency, improving resilience, or operating multi-region systems
• History of building platform and developer experience tooling that measurably boosted engineering velocity
• Successful leadership in major infrastructure evolution, including architectural transitions, migrations, or multi-region rollouts
• Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing

Our tech stack:

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC.
• Github Actions for CI/CD.

The Role:

Ziina is looking for a Platform Engineer, Backend Enablement & Tooling to join our team. This is a foundational role with the opportunity to define how internal tooling, developer experience, and backend quality are built at Ziina from the ground up. You'll have direct impact on how every engineer builds, tests, and ships software — shaping the golden paths, shared libraries, and quality systems that scale across the entire engineering organization. We're at a major inflection point in our growth, and we're looking for the right person to set the standard for how backend software is built here as we scale.

As part of a small, agile team, our ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with the vision to build from the ground up and the skill to own systems end-to-end. You'll thrive in our fast-paced environment by making sound tradeoffs and focusing on high-impact solutions. We're looking for someone who is as ambitious as we are to deliver high-quality products to our users. In short, we want owners who are ready to build big things with us.

As a Backend Platform Engineer (Developer Enablement) at Ziina you will:

• Build internal tools, service templates, and shared libraries that define the golden paths for how backend services are built at Ziina
• Improve backend developer workflows — local development, debugging, and testing — so engineers can iterate quickly and confidently
• Design and maintain testing frameworks and CI-integrated quality systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy signals on their changes
• Develop self-service capabilities for common engineering workflows so teams can move independently without platform bottlenecks
• Improve visibility into system quality and release confidence across the engineering organization
• Partner directly with engineering teams to identify friction in their day-to-day and solve it through better tooling

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Bring 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, or Developer Experience roles
• Have strong backend engineering skills, ideally in Typescript/Node.js, and a deep understanding of microservices and service-to-service communication patterns
• Have hands-on experience building internal tooling, shared libraries, or service templates that other engineers actively use
• Are experienced with testing frameworks, CI integration, and building quality signals that engineers trust
• Have a product mindset when it comes to internal tools — you think about your colleagues as users and measure success by their productivity
• Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us

• Proven experience building developer platforms or tooling at fintech or other high-scale engineering organizations
• A track record of creating golden paths, service templates, or shared libraries that were widely adopted across an engineering org
• History of measurably improving engineering velocity, release confidence, or code quality through tooling investments
• Experience shaping engineering standards, testing practices, or quality frameworks in a fast-growing environment
• Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC.
• Github Actions for CI/CD.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Actively ship production code to the web products
• Work closely with your dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
• Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, Typescript

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Ziina is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. We laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build out innovative new features, prepare our technology to scale, and help shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright minds from across the region and the world aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems and to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well. In short, we are looking for owners.

As a Backend Engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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 our users
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress
• Design and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing

Key skills and characteristics

• 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

What would amaze us

• 3+ 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

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD

• Tip of the Spear: Lead the deployment of WorkOS in the field. You will be responsible for understanding a customer's operational "chaos" and architecting an AI-driven solution that fixes it in weeks, not months.
• Rapid-Fire Execution: Build, iterate, and ship. You will write high-quality, full-stack code to create bespoke integrations and augment our platform’s core capabilities and create custom agents. This goes beyond context engineering; you’ll build the connective tissue - integrating bespoke APIs, setting up RAGs and Evals, tuning the E2E system and performance, and architecting multi-agent handoffs.
• Feedback Loop Mastery: You are the eyes and ears of the product team. You will translate field-tested insights into core product requirements, ensuring WorkOS remains grounded in real-world utility.
• Winning Stakeholders: Act as the technical face of WorkOS. You’ll need to win the trust of stakeholders, navigate complex enterprise hierarchies, and persuade skeptics by shipping results that speak for themselves.
• Technical Versatility: One day you’re setting up a RAG pipeline; the next, you’re debugging a legacy enterprise API or designing a custom dashboard. You do whatever is necessary to make the solution land.

• 5–8+ years of high-octane engineering experience. You are likely a senior-level engineer who is "hungrier" than your peers and bored by traditional, slow-moving dev cycles.
• The FDE Pedigree: Experience in forward-deployed, mission-driven environments (e.g., Palantir, high-growth startups, or specialized consultancy) where you worked directly with customers.
• Full-Stack Polyglot: Mastery of the modern stack (React/TS, Python/Node) with the ability to jump into any codebase and be productive on day one.
• AI Fluidity: Strong working knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks. You don't just know the theory; you know how to make AI work in production.
• Excellent Communication: You are a "social engineer." You can explain complex AI logic to a CEO and then pivot to a deep-dive session with an infrastructure lead without missing a beat.
• Relentless Bias for Action: You are a builder who values shipping over perfection. You have a "founder-level" sense of ownership and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty.
• Willingness to work on-site full time in UAE, with occasional travel to be embedded with regional partners.

• A Blank Canvas and Live Ammunition: The rare opportunity to build a "0-to-1" product while immediately deploying it into the real-world operations of a regional giant. No "sandbox" projects here, you’ll be shipping code that moves people and goods on day one. This is a huge opportunity to create impact in our region.
• A Special Ops Mission: We’re a lean, impact-obsessed team operating with total autonomy. You’ll be free from corporate bureaucracy and legacy baggage, focused entirely on winning the customer and solving "unsolvable" problems.
• Direct Collaboration with Leadership: Direct engagement with Careem and enterprise client leadership, in addition to working side-by-side with the WorkOS founding team including Magnus Olsson (Careem’s original Co-founder).

The Role

Ziina is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity for you to shape the future of Fintech in the region by enabling engineering excellence and scalability at Ziina. We’re at a major inflection point in our growth, and we’re looking for the right person to drive technical and organizational excellence, helping us create an engineering culture that attracts top talent from around the world.

As part of a small, agile team, our ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with the vision to build from the ground up and the skill to own features end-to-end. You’ll thrive in our fast-paced environment by making sound tradeoffs and focusing on high-impact solutions. We’re looking for someone who is as ambitious as we are to deliver high-quality products to our users. In short, we want owners who are ready to build big things with us.

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Ziina you will:

• Work closely with engineering teams to identify pain points and build tools that streamline their workflows and enhance their productivity
• Build, operate, and maintain a reliable, scalable platform infrastructure that supports high-performance applications.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automate workflows to ensure consistency across environments
• Develop self-service tools that empower engineering teams to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot with minimal assistance
• Establish security best practices across our infrastructure and application stack
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and build productivity-enhancing tools

To succeed in this role, you likely: 

• Bring 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Have strong expertise with cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Are proficient with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and understand microservices architecture
• Have hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and monitoring systems like Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog
• Are familiar with on-call responsibilities and incident response practices
• Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us

• Proven experience building fintech platforms that drive impact
• A strong track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams
• History of creating platforms that significantly boost developer productivity
• Successful leadership in major platform evolution, including architectural transitions or migrations
• Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD.

Summary: Join our established blockchain software house, specializing in enterprise-grade private and public chain solutions. We are seeking a Senior Java Developer to enhance our backend services and contribute to the development of innovative blockchain applications.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java to support blockchain applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate APIs with React/Vue interfaces.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable blockchain solutions for enterprise clients.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to backend services.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in blockchain technology.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience in Java development, particularly in a senior role.
• Strong expertise in API integration and development.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as React or Vue.js is beneficial.
• Familiarity with blockchain concepts and technologies is preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Summary: Join a leading non-custodial wallet provider committed to bringing the next billion users into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). We are seeking a talented mobile application developer to build high-security mobile applications and implement advanced biometric authentication and secure key storage solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-security mobile applications using React Native, Swift, or Kotlin.
• Implement and enhance biometric authentication features to ensure user security.
• Design and manage secure key storage systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Troubleshoot and debug to improve application performance.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and propose enhancements to improve user experience.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in mobile application development using React Native, Swift, or Kotlin.
• Strong understanding of mobile security principles and best practices.
• Experience with implementing biometric authentication.
• Knowledge of secure key storage methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Ziina is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. We laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build out innovative new features, prepare our technology to scale, and help shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright minds from across the region and the world aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems and to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well. In short, we are looking for owners.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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 our users
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress
• Foster a high-performance culture by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and grow
• Design and build a cloud-native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing

Key skills and characteristics

• 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

What would amaze us

• 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

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD

We are partnering with a venture-backed, early-stage technology company building a programmable loyalty and rewards operating system for global consumer brands. The platform enables brands to launch white-label fan engagement and monetisation experiences—including predictions, quests, digital drops, auctions, and ticketing—without gambling mechanics.

At its core, the platform combines consumer-grade applications with a tokenised exchange and settlement layer, enabling branded tokens to be issued, traded, and distributed at scale. Initial verticals are in global sports and entertainment, with expansion planned into additional IP-driven markets.

The company is now seeking a Founding CTO to lead the architecture and build-out of its protocol, exchange infrastructure, and engineering organisation from day one.

As Founding CTO, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the full technical stack, with a particular focus on the exchange and protocol layer. You will oversee smart contract development, liquidity and market mechanics, wallet infrastructure, and the integration between on-chain systems and high-scale consumer products.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited to a senior Web3 technologist who has shipped production protocols and wants full ownership of technical strategy in a greenfield environment.

Responsibilities

• Exchange & protocol architecture
• Design and deploy a hybrid AMM / orderbook-based exchange for branded tokens
• Build liquidity pools, routing logic, and market-making infrastructure
• Define token economics, liquidity incentives, and trading mechanics
• Smart contracts
• Develop, test, and deploy core protocol contracts, including:
• Token standards
• Liquidity pools and staking
• Rewards distribution and governance
• Lead audit processes and ensure a strong on-chain security posture
• Wallet & settlement infrastructure
• Implement abstracted wallet solutions (e.g. smart accounts, MPC)
• Integrate fiat on/off-ramps and external custody providers where required
• Platform integration
• Oversee architecture connecting the protocol layer to:
• Engagement mechanics (predictions, quests, missions)
• Rewards and commerce systems (drops, auctions, ticketing, merchandise)
• Analytics and reporting dashboards
• Consumer products
• Guide development of mobile (iOS/Android) and web applications delivered under partner branding
• Leadership & strategy
• Hire, lead, and scale the engineering team across protocol, backend, and product
• Set engineering standards, development workflows, and technical roadmap
• Make strategic build-vs-buy decisions and select vendors and tooling

Qualifications

• 5+ years building blockchain or crypto infrastructure
• Proven experience shipping at least one protocol or exchange to mainnet
• Deep understanding of DeFi mechanics (AMMs, liquidity mining, tokenomics)
• Strong production smart contract experience with a clean audit track record
• Experience working with L2s, rollups, or app-chains
• Familiarity with consumer-facing systems and real-time platforms
• Comfortable operating in early-stage, resource-constrained environments
• Able to balance protocol purity with product and user experience needs
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Technical environment

• Smart contracts: Solidity (advanced), Foundry / Hardhat, formal verification fundamentals
• Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust or Go, Python
• Infrastructure: RPC operations, indexers/subgraphs, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes
• Security: Audit coordination, attack vector mitigation (reentrancy, flash loans, oracle risk), monitoring and incident response
• Product stack exposure: React Native or Flutter, PostgreSQL, Redis, event streaming (useful for protocol-to-product integration)

We are supporting a venture-backed, early-stage technology company building a white-label consumer engagement and rewards platform for global brands. The platform enables large-scale fan and customer experiences (e.g. predictions, quests, digital rewards, ticketing and commerce) while incorporating tokenised settlement and rewards infrastructure.

This role represents a true greenfield build. The Founding CTO will define the overall system architecture, technical standards, and engineering culture from day one, while delivering a production-grade platform designed to scale to millions of users.

As Founding CTO, you will take end-to-end ownership of the technology organisation, from initial architecture and hands-on development through to team build-out and long-term technical strategy.

You will work closely with founders and commercial stakeholders, translating product vision into scalable systems and ensuring the platform can support multiple partners, brands, and regions.

Responsibilities

• Platform & architecture
• Define and build the core platform architecture supporting engagement mechanics, rewards, commerce, and analytics
• Establish system design principles covering scalability, security, and performance
• Make key build-vs-buy decisions and select vendors, tooling, and infrastructure partners
• Backend & infrastructure
• Architect and implement backend services supporting real-time event ingestion, points/wallet systems, identity, and compliance controls
• Design robust data pipelines, storage, and API layers
• Own production readiness, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response processes
• Consumer products
• Oversee development of mobile (iOS/Android) and web applications delivered under partner branding
• Ensure high-quality user experience across consumer touchpoints
• Token & rewards infrastructure
• Lead design and integration of tokenised reward systems, including smart contracts and distribution logic
• Manage wallet integrations and fiat on/off-ramps in collaboration with external providers
• Integrations
• Build and maintain APIs connecting to external data feeds, ticketing systems, commerce platforms, and sponsor tools
• Leadership & team
• Hire, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team
• Establish engineering standards, documentation practices, and development workflows
• Act as a hands-on technical leader while progressively transitioning to strategic oversight

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing technology products
• Proven experience delivering at least one 0-to-1 platform
• Track record of shipping and operating products at scale (100K+ users)
• Strong backend engineering background (distributed systems, real-time data, API design)
• Experience designing production-grade systems with high reliability requirements
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (architecture docs, technical strategy, roadmap planning)

Strongly preferred

• Experience with loyalty, gaming, or marketplace-style mechanics (e.g. rewards, auctions, prediction-style systems)
• Familiarity with blockchain or tokenised systems (smart contracts, wallets, settlement flows)
• Background in security-sensitive or compliance-aware systems
• Experience building white-label or multi-tenant platforms

Technical environment (current / planned)

• Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, Python; Go or Rust exposure is a plus
• Mobile: React Native or Flutter; native iOS (Swift) / Android (Kotlin) experience advantageous
• Infrastructure: Cloud-native (GCP), Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, event streaming (Kafka or equivalent)
• Web3 exposure: Solidity fundamentals, wallet integrations, token mechanics

The Role

Ziina is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to join our team. We have laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build engaging new features, who is obsessive about delivering high quality products and can shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright young minds from across the region aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well.

As a Full-Stack engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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 our users.
• Own, develop, and deliver end-to-end feature implementations spanning both the frontend and backend. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress.
• Actively participate in design discussions and collaborate with the product team to ensure web and mobile interfaces are user-friendly and intuitive, while integrating effectively with backend services and APIs.
• Review code and continuously level up by collaborating with other engineers on the team.
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing best practices, tools, and methods of knowledge-sharing for building best-in-class products.

To succeed in this role, you likely: 

• Have 4+ years of full-stack development experience.
• Demonstrate high integrity and a team-first mindset
• Take ownership and show initiative, with a strong bias toward action
• Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems
• Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn and grow
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
• Can define and articulate technical and design requirements
• Write clean, high-quality, testable, and well-documented code
• Think analytically, with strong data-driven decision-making and customer focus
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

What would amaze us

• Proficiency with frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, Angular, or Vue, and backend technologies like Node.js, Django, or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience with web servers, application architecture, and deployment strategies.
• A solid grasp of version control tools, preferably Git.
• Experience in integrating third-party services and APIs into a complex application ecosystem.

Our tech stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
• Terraform for IaC
• Github Actions for CI/CD.