Android Engineer

About the role

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.