Android Engineer

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.

• 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

• 2+ 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

• Golden Visa: The Golden Visa system allows foreign nationals to live, work, and conduct business in the UAE without requiring a national sponsor. The visas will be issued for 10 years and will automatically be renewed.
• 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.
• Insurance: We offer competitive medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependents through our provider, Allianz.
• Office Hours: We’ve set up recurring office hours with early employees and executives at the top technology companies globally to advise us across company functions: engineering, product, design, and growth (see above for some of our advisors).
• Educational Stipend: We cover the costs of whatever courses, books, or programs any team member chooses to take in pursuit of leveling up.
• Prime Office Location and Amenities: Our HQ is located in the heart of Dubai’s financial district (DIFC). The office space offers various amenities, including ergonomic workstations, phone booths, and meeting rooms. Employees also enjoy access to a pantry with coffee and snacks.