Frontend Platform 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 Platform Engineer , you’ll play a foundational role in shaping and scaling Alaan’s frontend ecosystem. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to architect frameworks, libraries, and tooling that enable our frontend teams to move faster, deliver better performance, and maintain consistency across products.

You’ll focus on building scalable design systems, improving developer experience , and leading technical initiatives that directly influence how we build user-facing experiences across our platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who loves solving platform-level problems and creating systems that empower other engineers to do their best work.

What you'll do

• Partner with the product and frontend teams to architect core features and shared components that power multiple products.
• Design and evolve the frontend platform - build and maintain scalable UI frameworks, component libraries, and tooling for developer productivity.
• Refactor and improve existing systems based on evolving product needs, performance goals, and QA feedback.
• Review code and guide peers to ensure clean, maintainable, and extensible architecture .
• Drive consistency in design, accessibility, and performance standards across frontend applications.
• Collaborate with the design team to enhance our design-to-code workflows and elevate user experience.
• Stay up-to-date on modern frontend patterns and platform tooling to continuously improve our ecosystem.

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