The role

We are seeking a customer-obsessed Solutions Architect to lead technical engagement with Nebius customers across the UAE and the broader region. This role is focused on presales excellence, strong technical storytelling, and driving adoption of Nebius AI Cloud across a wide range of industry segments.

As a Solutions Architect, you will act as a trusted technical partner to customers, helping them understand, evaluate, and adopt Nebius for their AI/ML and high-performance computing workloads. You will combine deep technical expertise with strong communication skills to clearly articulate Nebius’ value proposition and differentiate our platform in a competitive market.

You’re welcome to work remotely from the UAE.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own end-to-end technical presales engagements, from discovery through solution design, PoC execution, and production readiness
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders, including CTOs, Heads of AI/ML, and platform engineering teams
• Deliver compelling technical presentations, demos, and workshops that clearly communicate the value of Nebius across different customer segments
• Execute demos and PoCs to demonstrate performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of Nebius solutions
• Translate customer requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures and best practices
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering to align customer needs with Nebius capabilities and roadmap
• Act as a technical advocate for customers internally, ensuring feedback is incorporated into product and go-to-market strategy
• Support regional go-to-market efforts, including events, meetups, webinars, and technical content creation
• Contribute to building repeatable technical playbooks and assets for the MEA market

We expect you to have:

• 2–5+ years of experience in technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar, with strong customer-facing exposure
• Proven experience in presales or customer-facing technical roles, including discovery, solution design, and PoC execution
• Strong ability to deliver technical pitches and clearly explain complex infrastructure and AI/ML concepts to both technical and business audiences
• Experience positioning cloud or infrastructure solutions and articulating value propositions in competitive environments
• Solid understanding of ML/AI workloads, including training and inference, and the underlying infrastructure requirements
• Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and scripting/programming (Python preferred)
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt messaging across different customer segments
• Deep understanding of the MEA market, including customer expectations, buying behaviors, and local ecosystem
• Fluency in Arabic and English preferred (both written and spoken), with the ability to engage confidently with local customers and stakeholders
• A highly customer-centric mindset, with the ability to balance technical depth and business value

It will be an added bonus if you have:

• Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads and AI infrastructure (NVIDIA ecosystem, CUDA, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with MLOps tools and frameworks (Kubeflow, MLflow, etc.)
• Familiarity with HPC environments and schedulers (e.g., Slurm)
• Experience contributing to regional go-to-market or developer/community initiatives

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 Role:

Ziina is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity to build the foundations of our data platform from the ground up — the pipelines, warehouse, and tooling that will power decision-making, analytics, and future ML/AI capabilities across the company. We're at a major inflection point in our growth, and we're looking for the right person to shape how data is ingested, modeled, and consumed at Ziina 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 Senior Data Platform Engineer at Ziina you will:

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and processing systems that ingest data from transactional databases, object storage, and external APIs
• Design and evolve our data warehouse architecture and data models to support analytics, reporting, and ML/AI use cases
• Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of our data systems
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure trusted, accurate data across the company
• Enable self-service data access and analytics so product, engineering, and business teams can make data-driven decisions independently
• Support the foundational capabilities that will power our ML and AI use cases as they grow

To succeed in this role, you likely:

• Bring 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform, or Analytics Engineering
• Have strong expertise building and maintaining data pipelines with orchestration tools like Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect, and writing ETL/ELT workflows in Python
• Are proficient with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) and transformation frameworks like dbt
• Have hands-on experience ingesting data from a mix of sources — PostgreSQL, S3, external APIs — supporting both transactional and event-driven use cases
• Are familiar with data quality, observability, and monitoring practices for production data systems
• 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 data platforms at fintech or other high-scale, high-reliability companies
• A track record of designing data warehouse architectures and models that scaled cleanly as the company grew
• History of building self-service analytics tooling that meaningfully expanded who in the company could work with data
• Experience enabling ML/AI workloads on top of a data platform — feature stores, ML pipelines, or serving infrastructure
• Active engagement in the data community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing

Our tech stack:

The data platform is a core investment area at Ziina. Our current stack is:

• Snowflake as our data warehouse, with dbt for data transformation and modeling
• Dagster for orchestrating data pipelines, with Python for building ETL/ELT workflows
• Data ingestion from PostgreSQL, S3, and external APIs, supporting both transactional and event-driven use cases
• Metabase for analytics and internal reporting

The broader Ziina engineering stack that the data platform integrates with:

• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application's backend
• 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

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

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 a leading DeFi protocol with high Total Value Locked (TVL) as a DevOps Engineer, ensuring 24/7 uptime and seamless operations. This role involves designing CI/CD pipelines and managing cloud security to support a robust and secure infrastructure within the fintech industry.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Manage and enhance cloud security measures to protect against potential threats.
• Ensure 24/7 system uptime and reliability for a major DeFi protocol.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement best practices in DevOps and security.
• Monitor and optimize system performance and cost-efficiency.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform.

Required Skills:

• Mastery of Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Terraform.
• Proven experience in a fintech environment with high security standards.
• Strong expertise in cloud security and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a high-paced, 24/7 operational environment.

Summary: Join as a Backend Developer at a leading decentralized middleware protocol company. Your role will focus on managing distributed validator sets and automating infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Web3 developers. You will play a vital part in automating and streamlining processes, enhancing the efficiency and scalability of our operations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Go programming language.
• Manage distributed validator sets to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and management using Kubernetes (K8s), Terraform, and AWS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy scalable Web3 solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance and security issues.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions to optimize technology stack and processes.

Required skills:

• Strong proficiency in the Go programming language.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration and management.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of AWS cloud services and infrastructure management.
• Experience in managing distributed systems and validator sets.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

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

The role

As a Senior Python Developer, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining infrastructure and data processing services that complement our C++ trading core. This is a Dubai-based role (we're happy to cover the relocation). 

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based infrastructure and data processing services.
• Collaborate with C++ developers to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python with experience in developing infrastructure and data processing services.
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-structured code.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong prioritisation skills.
• Knowledge of financial markets and trading principles.
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka.
• Experience with SQL databases, especially PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, including docker and containerisation.
• Experience with Django, Python Asyncio, Redis.
• Experience with setting up CI pipelines for Python projects.

Other Technologies we Use

Experience with any of the following technologies is considered a significant bonus:

• FastAPI
• Pydantic
• Clickhouse
• Docker
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Grafana
• Gitlab

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and a healthy work-life balance.
• Remote-first team.
• The opportunity to work in a thriving, multicultural, fun environment in one of the world’s fastest-growing industries.
• Corporate workations: we regularly go on corporate trips to unique locations all over the world to work, explore the local culture, and get to know each other better.

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.