Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Experience

Job description

Ziina is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer on its Payments Experience team in Dubai. The engineer collaborates with product, design, operations and engineering teams to decide what to build, then owns and ships reliable, scalable and maintainable software for Ziina's users.

The role suits an owner and team player who writes clean, testable, well-documented code, communicates technical and design requirements clearly, and works with a data-driven and customer-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• Backend Engineering
• Node.js
• Payments
• Software Design
• TypeScript