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# Product Engineer II - Web at Tamara

- **Company:** Tamara
- **Location:** India
- **Posted:** 2025-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara/jobs/4680072101

## Job description

## About Us

Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses.

Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, [Checkout.com](http://checkout.com/), amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.

## Your role

We're seeking a Web Engineer II for our team. As a Web Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and enhancing our Frontend applications.

Drawing on your strong background in backend development and web technology, you will be tasked with building and maintaining sophisticated backend APIs and services. Your efforts will be vital to providing unmatched and unique advertising experiences, setting a standard in user engagement that distinguishes Tamara.

With a solid track record of crafting complex backend systems, you will integrate into our Agile team to develop robust and scalable backend services. These services are crucial in supporting our dynamic frontend and mobile applications and our comprehensive financing solutions, ultimately transforming how millions of users worldwide interact with shopping, payment, and banking platforms.

## Your responsibilities

- Lead and drive Agile methodologies within the team, ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework. Mentor team members through all phases of the software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance.
- Collaborate closely with the Product team to deeply understand requirements and translate them into functional, efficient, and high-quality frontend code.
- Partner with Backend, Mobile, and QA engineers to ensure seamless backend integration and functionality with other software ecosystem components. This includes coordinating development efforts, troubleshooting, and supporting each other to meet project timelines.
- Actively participate in Frontend Chapter meetings and initiatives, contributing to the development of best practices, sharing knowledge, and staying updated with the latest Frontend technologies and trends.
- Work in tandem with QA engineers to define comprehensive test cases, support both automated and manual testing processes, and ensure that releases meet the highest quality standards before deployment.
- Lead and participate in code review sessions to uphold high code quality. Share knowledge, provide and incorporate constructive feedback, and help improve overall codebase health and architecture
- Work with CI/CD tools to automate testing and deployment processes, ensuring that changes are released efficiently to the production environment with minimal downtime.
- Take a proactive role in leading daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint grooming, and retrospective meetings. Utilize these activities to monitor progress, anticipate challenges, and drive improvements in the development process and team efficiency.
- Oversee and produce comprehensive documentation for development processes, architectural designs, and code changes. Ensure documentation is detailed and accessible to support current team operations and facilitate future project maintenance and onboarding..

Your expertise:

- 4+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, with a focus on Frontend development.
- Framework Knowledge: Familiarity with major Javascript frameworks; experience with React JS is preferred.
- Solid understanding of modern JavaScript features, including ES2023 updates, asynchronous programming, and concurrent rendering concepts for building efficient and scalable applications.
- Experience in Software Development, Design, and Architecture, with security in mind
- Good practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles
- Experience with Agile practices: Pairing, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
- Expertise in optimizing web performance and Web Vitals (e.g., Core Web Vitals) to ensure fast load times and smooth user experiences, including metrics like Time to First Byte (TTFB), Time to Interactive (TTI), and First Contentful Paint (FCP).
- Experience in web application design and state management solutions
- Experience with Unit and Integration testing
- Understanding common security vulnerabilities and performance issues in web applications, and knowing how to debug them
- ​​​​​​​Strong customer focus, you build accessible applications with a great UX
- Knowledge of web accessibility standards and best practices to create inclusive and accessible web applications
- Superb communication skills, and ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Next.js 15 and its latest features, such as improved server components, streaming, and advanced static site generation, is a plus.

To learn more about how we protect your privacy, please visit our [Candidate privacy notice](https://tamara.co/en-SA/candidate-privacy-notice).

## About Tamara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region, offering Sharia-compliant buy now, pay later (BNPL) and payment solutions through a customer-centric financial super-app.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series? – Unicorn stage, backed by top investors)
- **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah Branch Road, King Salman District)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company was founded in 2020 by a team; individual founder names not disclosed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Fintech (BNPL, payments, consumer finance)
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers) and B2B (merchants, from SMBs to global brands)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth” (from Greenhouse careers page) / “Empower people in their daily lives and revolutionize how they shop, pay, and bank” (from docs.tamara.co)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Tamara Bundle**: Includes Pay in Full and Split in 2/3/4 payment products – flexible, transparent, no hidden fees or interest.
- **Split in Installments**: Allows customers to split purchase amounts into multiple installments (varies by retail category and ticket size).
- **Pay in Full**: Customers pay the total order value upfront via Tamara, with no added fees or interest.
- **Online & In-store Solutions**: Tamara’s payment methods work both for e-commerce and physical retail.
- **Merchant Services**: Boost conversion and AOV, reduce fraud/credit risk, receive upfront payment while customers pay over time, and manage transactions/returns via a dashboard.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.107 billion (as of latest funding round – CB Insights lists valuation at $2.107B, making Tamara Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised = $2.107 billion (includes equity and lines of credit; latest round was a Line of Credit - II of $1.4B about 9 months ago)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sanabil Investments (wholly owned by PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, Goldman Sachs, Citi Alternative Investments, Apollo Global Management, W2 Investments, Shorooq Partners (22+ investors total). Key merchant partners: SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, Amazon.
- **Growth Signals**: Serves millions of users across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain; expanding globally with offices in Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, Vietnam, India, Germany, and remote; strong headcount growth visible in open roles across engineering, data, risk, product, and care.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & unicorn status** in Saudi Arabia’s fintech space.
- **100% Sharia-compliant** certification by Shariyah Review Bureau – a key differentiator in the region.
- **Strong backing** from PIF-linked investors and global financial institutions.
- **Deep merchant integrations** with top regional and global brands (SHEIN, IKEA, Amazon, etc.).
- **Customer-centric super-app vision** combining payments, shopping, and banking in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- Build the most comprehensive financial super-app in the GCC, expanding product offerings beyond BNPL (e.g., banking, credit).
- Scale across the region (already in Saudi, UAE, Bahrain) and enter new markets.
- Invest in data, AI, and engineering talent to enhance risk management, personalization, and customer experience.
- Maintain Sharia compliance while innovating payment flexibility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Customer Obsessed”, “Ownership”, “Resilience”, “Curiosity”, “One Team, One Mission” – strong emphasis on trust, simplicity, and being “everywhere people need us.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote options available – offices in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Vietnam, India, Germany, plus fully remote roles (per Greenhouse careers page).
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: “We hire for human qualities, not just skills”; focus on continuous learning, data-informed decision-making, and building scalable systems; global team with diverse backgrounds; roles in engineering (backend, Flutter, QA), data science, risk, product design, and more.
- **Growth opportunity**: As a fast-growing unicorn, employees can have high impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Tamara](https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara)
2. [Tamara – Life at Tamara](https://tamara.co/en-kw/life-at-tamara)
3. [CB Insights – Tamara Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tamara)
4. [Tamara Docs – Introduction to Tamara](https://docs.tamara.co/docs/introduction-to-tamara)
5. [Tamara Careers Page](https://tamara.co/en-sa/careers)

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