Backend Engineer, Payments Platform — Own & Scale Features

Ziina Ltd

Dubai

On-site

AED 180,000 - 320,000

Full time

14 days+
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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

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