Platform Engineer

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.

About Ziina

Ziina’s mission is to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. We are building MENA’s consumer and SMB financial platform, starting with a peer-to-peer and merchant wallet. Our team have backgrounds from Apple, Uber, Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payments volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved by the UAE and is the recipient of 8 international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. Our last round was a $22 million Series A from top-tier investors globally including Altos Ventures, Fintech Collective, Activant, Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator. Our angel investors include early employees and executives at Revolut, Stripe, Venmo, Brex, Checkout.com, Notion, and Deel.

Join us in shaping the future of financial freedom. Every role here is an opportunity to make a real impact. Let’s build something that matters together.