Lean Technologies

About Lean Technologies

Lean Technologies is transforming the financial landscape by delivering open banking solutions across the MENA region. Our products have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from both developers and customers, and our recent $33 million Series A round, led by Sequoia, marks our commitment to further expansion and innovation in the GCC. We're dedicated to enabling the next generation of financial innovation and are constantly looking for driven, entrepreneurial individuals to join us on this exciting journey.

About the Role:

As a Senior SDET, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and high performance of our open banking systems. This position involves extensive collaboration with development teams to guarantee the delivery of top-quality products. You will be responsible for creating and executing comprehensive test plans, contributing to the development and maintenance of our in-house automation framework, and analyzing test results to identify potential issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement, maintain, and adapt automation frameworks for open banking solutions.
• Collaborate closely with all stakeholders to understand the full context of deliveries and translate complex functional and non-functional requirements into actionable tasks.
• Ensure Quality Guidelines are met during the development cycle.
• Monitor and report on test results, identifying potential performance issues.
• Identify and recommend improvements to optimize the performance and scalability of open banking systems.
• Participate in code reviews.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the testing domain, with a focus on automation.
• Proven experience as an Automation Engineer or SDET, with a track record of building and maintaining scalable, reliable test frameworks.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., WebdriverIO, Selenium).
• A passion for testing, innovation, and a demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools such as Grafana and Kibana is a plus.

Why Join Us?

Lean is at the forefront of financial innovation, and this is just the beginning. We are committed to expanding our impact across the region and are always on the lookout for talented individuals passionate about solving complex problems. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer:

• Private healthcare
• Flexible office hours
• Meaningful equity stakes

About Lean Technologies

Lean is on a mission to revolutionize the fintech industry by providing developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We’re breaking down infrastructure barriers and empowering the growth of the fintech industry. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, Lean is poised to expand its coverage across the region while continuing to deliver unparalleled value to developers and stakeholders.

Join us and be part of a journey to enable the next generation of financial innovation. We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes to ensure long-term alignment. At Lean, you'll work on solving complex problems, build a lasting legacy, and be part of a diverse, inclusive, and equal opportunity workplace.

About the role:

Are you a highly motivated and experienced software engineer looking to take your career to the next level? Our team at Lean is seeking a talented engineer to help us build the distributed systems that allow our engineering teams to deploy our platform in multiple geographies across various deployment solutions. You will work closely with functional heads across software, QA, and product teams to deliver scalable and customizable release pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Distributed systems architecture – understand and manage the most complex systems
• Continual reliability and performance optimization – enhancing observability stack to improve proactive detection and resolution of issues
• Employing cutting-edge methods and technologies, continually refining existing tools to enhance performance and drive advancements
• Problem-solving capabilities – troubleshooting complex issues and proactively reducing toil through automation
• Experience in technical leadership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Collaboration skills – working across teams to drive change and provide guidance
• Technical expertise – depth skills and ability to act as subject matter expert in one or more of: IAAC, observability, coding, reliability, debugging, system design
• Capacity planning – effectively forecasting demand and reacting to changes
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Incident response – rapidly detecting and resolving critical incidents. Minimizing customer impact through effective collaboration, escalation (including periodic on-call shifts) and postmortems

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles running large-scale infrastructure, cloud, or web services
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and networking concepts
• We work on OCI but would accept candidates with solid GCP/AWS or other cloud providers’ knowledge and experience
• 3+ years of experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, Helm, Docker
• Experience in operating CI/CD pipelines that build and deliver services on the cloud and on-premise
• Work with CI/CD tools/services like Jenkins/GitHub-Actions/ArgoCD etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools either Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform
• Experience in production environments with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Coding with one or more of the following: Java, Python, and/or Go

Bonus

• MultiCloud or Hybrid Cloud experience
• OCI and GCP

Why Join Us?

At Lean, we value talent, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit. We are constantly on the lookout for individuals who identify with our mission and values, even if they don’t meet every requirement. If you're passionate about solving hard problems and building a legacy, Lean is the right place for you. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Lean provides developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We recognized that infrastructure barriers were hindering fintech growth in our home markets and set out to build a solution. With Lean, developers at any level can now create advanced financial solutions without grappling with infrastructure complexities, allowing them to focus squarely on customer needs.

Why Join Us?

Our products have garnered enthusiastic feedback from both developers and customers. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, our debut in the GCC marks just the beginning. We're committed to expanding regionally and enhancing stakeholder value. If you thrive on solving challenges and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and ensure every team member holds meaningful equity. Join us on our journey of enabling the next wave of financial innovation!

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing the infrastructure that supports the future of the financial ecosystem. We seek a motivated problem-solver who thrives on challenges and delivers compelling solutions. You'll lead knowledge sharing across our engineering team, mentor individuals, and contribute to complex feature design and development.

Requirements

- 8+ years of professional experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices

- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Kafka, Scripting, and REST

- Experience as a Squad/Tech Lead, adept at designing and developing complex features

- Worked in distributed teams and with open-source APIs

- Eagerness to learn and implement new technologies

- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps systems and processes

- Self-motivated with a preference for autonomy and ownership

- Startup experience and interest in the fintech industry, particularly Open Banking

Bonus

- Experience in developing payment solutions (p2p, B2C, B2B)

- Previous work in the financial sector

Join us and shape the future of fintech with Lean!