Backend Engineer (Payments Platform) - Own Scalable Features

MoneyLion; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Ziina is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our team and help build innovative features while scaling our technology. The role emphasizes owning features end-to-end, shipping high-quality backends, and ensuring funds safety.

You will work with product, design, and operations to deliver valuable solutions and maintainability. The ideal candidate is a creative thinker who communicates trade-offs clearly and takes ownership of significant components, helping shape our engineering culture and

Qualifications

• 3+ years developing software.
• Experience with systems that handle money.
• Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine valuable features and the best user experience.
• Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable software that keeps users' funds safe and maintainable from design to monitoring.
• Design and build a cloud-native platform with monitoring, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing in mind.
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Help shape our engineering culture by promoting good practices and knowledge-sharing.

Skills

Owner mindset

Team player

Curious

Strong communicator

Tools

Node.js

GraphQL

Postgres

Elasticsearch

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Ziina is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our team and help build innovative features while scaling our technology. The role emphasizes owning features end-to-end, shipping high-quality backends, and ensuring funds safety.

You will work with product, design, and operations to deliver valuable solutions and maintainability. The ideal candidate is a creative thinker who communicates trade-offs clearly and takes ownership of significant components, helping shape our engineering culture and