We're bringing money online for the Middle East and North Africa. We’re building a digital wallet for fast, easy, and secure peer-to-peer payments.

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 has experience from Apple, Uber, Stripe, PayPal, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payment volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved in the UAE with a 4.7 star rating in the app store 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.

Job Description

Ziina is looking for an Android Engineer to join our team. We have laid a strong foundation upon which we’ve shipped our product. We are looking for someone to help us build engaging new features, who is obsessive about delivering high quality products and can shape our engineering organization to be the kind of place that bright young minds from across the region aspire to work for.

As our team is small, our ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems to build something from the ground up. They can move quickly, clearly articulate tradeoffs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high quality products to our users. We are ambitious and excited to build big things, and we’d love to bring on someone who is as well.

As an Android engineer at Ziina you will:

• 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.
• Design and build a modern architecture that enables our team to build, test, and ship new features quickly.
• Improve mobile developer experience to reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.

Key skills and characteristics

• 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.

What would amaze us

• Experience working on apps that handle money
• Experience with Kotlin, Java, and MVVM architectures
• Experience shipping and maintaining apps at scale
• Experience handling difficult bugs, concurrency, persistence, etc.

Requirements

• 3+ years building Android apps
• High integrity and a team-first mentality
• Passion for creating order and structure out of ambiguity
• Initiative and a bias towards action
• Live in or willing to relocate to the UAE

Our Perks

• Pretty Sweet Package: We offer an above-market compensation package in the form of a base salary plus equity. Since income tax is 0% in Dubai, you get to keep every penny (or fil).
• Flexible Work: Our team is all based in Dubai, but hours at Ziina are flexible, and employees are encouraged to work whenever and wherever they feel most comfortable.
• Vacation Policy: We offer a six week vacation policy along with the statutory UAE holidays. We want you to take enough time away to come back recharged and ready to do your best work.
• Insurance: We offer competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents through our provider, Allianz.

Our Tech Stack

We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:

• Typescript and Node.js (our main application’s backend)
• Swift (for our iOS app), Kotlin (for our Android app), and React (for our web apps)
• GraphQL Federation (for our client-facing APIs) and Kafka (for our inter-service communication)
• Postgres (for consistent and durable storage), Redis (for quick fetching), Elasticsearch (for quick searching)
• Google Cloud Platform (for hosting our cloud infra) and Kubernetes (for managing our server instances)
• Github Actions (for CI/CD)

At Ziina we are building an event-driven microservices architecture on Node.js written in TypeScript. Our GraphQL API is powered by Apollo Federation. Our mobile clients are written in native iOS (with SwiftUI) and Android.