The Role:
Ziina is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Experience to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity to shape the foundation that every Ziina engineer builds on: the infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability systems that keep our rapidly growing fintech platform fast, reliable, and easy to develop. We're at a major inflection point in our growth, with real multi-region and low-latency challenges at scale, and we're looking for the right person to drive the technical excellence that makes scaling possible.
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 systems end-to-end. You'll thrive in our fast-paced environment by making 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, Infrastructure & Developer Experience at Ziina you will:
- Build and own scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports high-performance applications across multiple regions
- Own and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines and release workflows so that shipping is fast, safe, and predictable
- Implement infrastructure as code and automation across all environments to ensure consistency and reduce manual toil
- Improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response so problems are caught early and resolved quickly
- Reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability as we scale
- Enable engineering teams through reliable, efficient platform systems and self-service tooling
To succeed in this role, you likely:
- Have 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with a strong focus on infrastructure and developer experience
- Have deep expertise with cloud services (ideally AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- Are proficient with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes — and understand microservices architecture
- Have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar)
- Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and have a track record of improving 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 infrastructure for fintech or other high-reliability, high-throughput platforms
- A track record of tackling real scaling problems — reducing latency, improving resilience, or operating multi-region systems
- History of building platform and developer experience tooling that measurably boosted engineering velocity
- Successful leadership in major infrastructure evolution, including architectural transitions, migrations, or multi-region rollouts
- 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.