Backend Engineer, Payments Platform — Own & Scale Features

Ziina Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Ziina Ltd is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and scale backend services that power financial features for users. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment, monitoring and iteration, collaborating with product, design, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes clean, maintainable code, data-driven decisions, and strong communication to shape a growing engineering organization. Ideal candidates are owners who can move quickly, articulate trade-offs, and relocate to the

Qualifications

• Own and ship end-to-end backend features with reliability and scalability.
• Be able to articulate technical and design requirements clearly.
• Write clean, well-documented, testable code.
• Strong data-driven thinking and customer focus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willing to relocate to the UAE.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering to deliver high-value features.
• Own features from design to shipping, including monitoring and measurement.
• Design and build a cloud-native platform with monitoring, security, and scalability.
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market.
• Shape engineering culture through knowledge-sharing practices.

Skills

Owner mindset

Curious

Define requirements

Clean code

Data-driven thinking

Excellent communication

Willing to relocate to UAE

Tools

Node.js

GraphQL

Postgres

ElasticSearch

Kafka

React

Redis

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Ziina Ltd is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and scale backend services that power financial features for users. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment, monitoring and iteration, collaborating with product, design, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes clean, maintainable code, data-driven decisions, and strong communication to shape a growing engineering organization. Ideal candidates are owners who can move quickly, articulate trade-offs, and relocate to the