Staff DevOps Engineer

This role is critical to our team as it ensures the seamless deployment of our platform across multiple geographies and deployment solutions. By collaborating closely with our software, QA, and product leaders, this position will drive the development of scalable and customizable release pipelines, enabling our engineering teams to deliver solutions efficiently and effectively.

About the Job

This role would help build the distributed system that allows our engineering teams to deploy our platform in multiple geographies across various deployment solutions. The position will closely work with our functional Heads within the software, QA and product teams to deliver scalable and customisable release pipelines.

Who are we

Lean enables companies to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve their account information. Our products have garnered the trust of leading companies and enabled them to deliver powerful experiences when connected with a user’s bank account, allowing users to perform prudent financial planning, get better rates on loans, transfer money to friends, and more, without compromising on privacy or security.

Some of Lean’s clients include the likes of Binance, Etisalat Group, Careem, Sarwa, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed hundreds of millions of dollars, and its products are also connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Lean envisions a fully inclusive financial ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live in the MENAP region.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize complex distributed systems to ensure scalability and reliability.

• Continuously enhance observability and monitoring systems to proactively detect and resolve issues, ensuring high performance.

• Troubleshoot complex issues, reduce operational toil, and automate repetitive tasks to streamline operations.

• Provide leadership and set technical direction for engineering projects, acting as a subject matter expert in areas such as IaC, observability, automation  or system design.

• Collaboration skills – working across teams to drive change and provide guidance

• Lead incident response efforts, quickly resolve critical issues, and conduct post-incident reviews to minimize future impact.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or similar roles, with at least 8+ years in IT overall, demonstrating progressive responsibility.

• Proven experience in senior or lead DevOps/SRE roles including leading teams or  mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement complex, scalable, and reliable DevOps solutions that meet business needs.Proven experience in  lead DevOps/SRE or similar roles, including leading teams and mentoring junior engineers.

• Excellent ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering collaboration across teams.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Ruby) with strong scripting skills in Bash for automation.

• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI), including their services and architecture.

• Extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and deployment.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or Pulumi, with a strong focus on automating infrastructure management and provisioning.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm charts for container orchestration and deployment in cloud environments.

Desired Qualifications

• MultiCloud/Hybrid Cloud experience

• Experience with implementing and working within security frameworks, such as Zero Trust architecture, SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), or compliance standards relevant to FinTech and other regulated industries (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC 2, CIS, GDPR).

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us?

Lean is the first regulated open banking and open finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.  Since 2019 we've been on a mission to become the pre-eminent A2A payments company in the Middle East - enabling our clients to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve account information. Our products have garnered the trust of some of the leading companies in the region, including the likes of Etisalat Group, Careem, Binance, Tabby, Tamara, Tawuniya, and more.

To date, Lean has processed billions of dollars, and our products have connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts across the region. We've recently announced our $67.5 million Series B funding round led by General Catalyst, following earlier investment from Sequoia Capital. This funding marks a major milestone for Lean and the financial ecosystem across the MENA region. At Lean, we’re committed to driving the next generation of financial innovation by making financial data and payments more accessible and transparent for businesses and consumers alike.

To that end, we're always on the lookout for talented, driven, and entrepreneurial candidates to join us in our mission of enabling the next generation of financial innovation. If you're motivated by solving hard problems and leaving a lasting legacy while you're at it, Lean's where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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