Frontend Engineer

About Alaan

Alaan is the SuperCard™ for businesses and the most loved fintech in the Middle East. Our mission is to simplify finance for businesses so they can save time and money.

Alaan provides everything businesses need to manage and control expenses, including the SuperCard™, AI-powered automation and insights, streamlined accounting, and centralized dashboards, all in one place.

Over 1500 businesses in the UAE and KSA, from startups to enterprises, use Alaan to control spending and save costs.

Backed by Y Combinator and top global investors- including founders and executives of leading startups - Alaan is built by a world-class team from McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Zomato, Careem, Rippling, and other high-growth companies.

We’re not just building software. We’re reimagining how finance works for modern businesses across the region.

About the role

As a Frontend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing user interfaces that are both intuitive and visually stunning, using Next.js, React and Tailwind. You’ll collaborate closely with UX/UI designers and backend developers to bring new features to life, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience. Your expertise will be crucial in building responsive and high-performance web applications. If you have a passion for problem-solving and a keen eye for detail, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our product and its users.

What you'll do

• Working closely with the product and backend team to implement new features
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional features
• Tech planning with respective technical leads
• Refactoring and improving existing features of the product based on best practices, changing requirements, and feedback from QA
• Reviewing your peers’ code to keep our code base clean and extensible
• Exchanging ideas with the design team to improve the user experience
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to innovate and enhance our frontend stack

What we're looking for

• 3+

  years of frontend experience with React
• Experience with Typescript, Next.js, Tailwind, Radix UI, ShadCN UI
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to turn hi-fi designs such as Figma into pixel-perfect UI
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Previous startup experience is a bonus
• Higher education degree from a tier 1 college (IITs, NITs, BITS) is a bonus
• Good communication skills

Nice-to-have

• Prior experience in

  fintech, payments, or neobanking

  environments.
• Exposure to reconciliation automation or workflow tools.
• Experience building dashboards using

  Metabase, Looker, or PowerBI

  .
• Familiarity with

  card transaction lifecycles

  and financial control processes.

• Ideal Background:

  Experience in fintech, banking operations, or payment product teams—similar roles might include

  Reconciliation Analyst, Product Ops Analyst, or Finance Ops Analyst

  in payments or card issuance.

What's in it for you

• Contribute to building the Middle East’s most beloved fintech brand from the ground up
• Benefit from a role with significant ownership and accountability
• Thrive in a flexible hybrid culture with ample work-life balance
• Participate in exciting offsite events
• Competitive salary and equity
• Enjoy additional perks like travel allowances, gym memberships, and more