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Lean Technologies is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the MENA region, enabling businesses to access financial data and initiate payments instantly. Since its founding in 2019, Lean has supported over 400 companies, processed more than $4 billion in transaction volume, connected over 2 million accounts, and verified more than 4 million accounts. The company is licensed by the Saudi Central Bank and aims to drive financial innovation across the region.

Lean Technologies is a Saudi Arabian fintech company that provides open banking infrastructure and financial data solutions to businesses and financial institutions.The People Operations Associate role at Lean Technologies in Riyadh is a full-time HR operations position focused on employee lifecycle management, compliance, and HR administration across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.Job descriptionKey responsibilities include:Managing employee onboarding and offboarding (contracts, IDs, system access).Maintaining accurate employee records in the HRIS.Supporting visa, immigration, and relocation processes for KSA and UAE.Responding to employee questions about leave, benefits, and HR documentation.Assisting with payroll data preparation and accuracy checks.Preparing HR reports and headcount dashboards.Tracking visa expirations, compliance deadlines, and other regulatory requirements.Improving HR processes through automation and documentation.RequirementsWe is looking for candidates with:At least 2 years of experience in HR Administration or People Operations.Experience with Saudi and UAE visa/immigration processes (preferred).Knowledge of HRIS systems and Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets.Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.Good written communication skills.Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment is a plus.Pay: From ﷼8,000.00 per monthWork Location: In person

People Operations Associate

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 Lean is expanding our footprint by opening an office in Egypt this summer, and the Engineering Manager, DevOps role is one of our first engineering leadership hires in market.
 
 
 
 
 
 We're a Series B fintech (backed by General Catalyst and Sequoia), and over the last few years we've grown from a category-defining open banking company into a multi-rail financial infrastructure platform powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.
 
 
 
 
 
 Cairo is a long-term investment in a market we deeply believe in, and the people who join now will shape what Lean looks like there for years to come. You'll work alongside a team representing 30+ nationalities, with experience from some of the world's leading fintechs and technology companies. The work is ambitious, the standards are high, and ownership is real.
 
 
 
 
 
 If you're excited about building high-performing teams and world-class infrastructure from the ground up, this is the right moment to join.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About Lean
 
 
 
 Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.
 
 
 What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform quickly became the market leader in account aggregation and payment initiation. Today, Lean is evolving into a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.
 
 
 We've processed billions of dollars in transactions, serve more than 350 customers&mdash;including Binance, Careem, and e&amp;&mdash;and are backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Following our $67.5M Series B, we're expanding into new markets, opening new offices, acquiring businesses, and building financial infrastructure that has never existed in the region before.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About the Role
 
 
 
 
 
 
 We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps and Platform Engineering function You'll be responsible for building and growing a high-performing team that owns the infrastructure, developer platform, cloud architecture, and operational excellence behind Lean's products.
 
 
 This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical depth with people leadership, partnering closely with Engineering, Security, Product, and Compliance teams to build a scalable, secure, and reliable platform capable of supporting the next stage of Lean's growth.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 What You'll Do
 
 
 
 
 
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 Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing DevOps and Platform Engineering team in Cairo.
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 Define and execute the platform engineering roadmap, balancing developer productivity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
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 Own Lean's cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
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 Drive reliability through SRE best practices, incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
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 Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service developer tooling.
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 Improve deployment velocity while maintaining security and operational excellence.
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 Partner with Security and Compliance teams to meet regulatory and audit requirements across multiple markets.
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 Collaborate with engineering leaders to improve software delivery, platform adoption, and engineering productivity.
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 Establish operational metrics, SLOs, and KPIs that measure platform health and engineering effectiveness.
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 Help shape Lean's engineering culture by hiring exceptional talent and raising the bar across the organization.
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 What You'll Bring
 
 
 
 
 
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 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with at least 3 years leading engineering teams.
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 Strong technical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
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 Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed production systems at scale.
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 Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and modern deployment strategies.
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 Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
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 Strong understanding of security best practices and cloud infrastructure governance.
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 Proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams.
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 Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams.
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 Experience in fintech, payments, regulated environments, or high-growth startups is highly desirable.
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 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we&rsquo;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?
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact.
 
 
 Since 2019, we&rsquo;ve become the first regulated Open Banking and Open Finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. We&rsquo;ve processed billions of dollars. We connect millions of accounts. We enable companies like Binance, Careem, and Etisalat to build products that were previously impossible in this region.
 
 
 Our recent $67.5M Series B from General Catalyst and Sequoia isn&rsquo;t just validation: it&rsquo;s fuel. We&rsquo;re expanding into new markets, launching new products, and setting the pace for what financial innovation looks like in MENA.
 
 
 We solve hard problems. We move fast. We hold ourselves to a high standard. And we&rsquo;re looking for people who&rsquo;ve done this before to help us do it right.
 
 
 If you&rsquo;re motivated by building something that lasts, not just something that scales, Lean is 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 When applying for a job at Lean Technologies, we will need to collect, use and share Personal Data about you with different members of our team during the application process. This may mean transferring your data to members of the team in one of our office locations worldwide outside of the country you are in. Please refer to our Privacy Notice on our website for more information about how we may use and store your Personal Data
 
 
 
 
 
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DevOps Engineering Manager

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 Lean is expanding our footprint by opening an office in Egypt this summer, and the Staff DevOps Engineer role is one of our first hires in the market.
 
 
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re a Series B fintech (General Catalyst and Sequoia backed), and over the last few years, we have grown from a category-defining open banking company into a multi-rail infrastructure layer powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.
 
 
 
 
 
 Cairo is a long-term bet on a market we believe in, and the people who join now will shape what Lean looks like there for years to come. You will be working alongside a very diverse team of 30+ nationalities, with backgrounds from some of the best fintechs in the region and globally. The work is hard, the standards are high, and the ownership is real. If you are a builder who wants to set the standard, this is the right moment to join.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About the Role
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lean Technologies is a fast-growing fintech company building the financial data infrastructure for the MENA region. Operating in a highly regulated, security-sensitive environment, we serve mission-critical financial services that demand robust SLAs, tight security controls, and scalable, high-performance systems.
 
 
 As a
 
 Senior DevOps
 
 Engineer, you will work at the intersection of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and SRE. You&rsquo;ll own the architecture, automation, reliability, and observability of our hybrid cloud infrastructure across multiple regions and environments. You&rsquo;ll troubleshoot complex problems across the stack from networking and Linux internals to Kubernetes and cloud-native applications, ensuring the platform remains secure, fast, and reliable.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About Lean
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region&rsquo;s largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.
 
 
 
 
 
 What started as the region&rsquo;s pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.
 
 
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;ve processed billions of dollars in transactions. We&rsquo;re trusted by 350+ clients - from Binance and Careem to Etisalat - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning. We&rsquo;re expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn&rsquo;t exist here before.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
 
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 Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across
 
 hybrid cloud environments
 
 (GCP, OCI, and on-prem).
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 Design and automate
 
 secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines
 
 for microservices and backend systems using GitHub Actions/Jenkins.
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 Implement
 
 Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
 
 across multi-region, multi-environment setups using Terraform/Ansible and GitOps practices.
 </li>
 <li>
 Build and operate
 
 monitoring, observability, and alerting stacks
 
 (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry , ELK . )
 </li>
 <li>
 Proactively identify and address
 
 reliability, latency, and availability issues
 
 to meet strict SLA objectives.
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 Participate in and lead
 
 on-call rotations and incident response
 
 , conducting detailed postmortems and RCA reports.
 </li>
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 Automate infrastructure lifecycle tasks: provisioning, scaling, configuration management, and patching.
 </li>
 <li>
 Champion
 
 security, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
 
 , and infrastructure reliability best practices.
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate with engineering teams to improve internal platforms, tooling, and developer productivity.
 </li>
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 Must-Have Technical Skills
 
 
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 6+ years of
 
 hands-on experience
 
 in
 
 DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering
 
 roles.
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 Deep understanding of:
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 Linux systems administration
 
 and internals
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 <li>
 
 Networking fundamentals
 
 (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewall policies)
 </li>
 <li>
 
 Kubernetes/Helm/Containers
 
 (Setup and day 2 operations/troubleshotting)
 </li>
 <li>
 
 Terraform
 
 for infrastructure automation
 </li>
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 Strong scripting and automation with
 
 bash/shell
 
 and at preferably at least one language:
 
 Python or Go
 
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 Cloud expertise with
 
 OCI
 
 or
 
 GCP
 
 , ideally both.
 </li>
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 Additional Technical Experience
 
 
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 CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins
 </li>
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 Docker and container lifecycle management
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 Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, OpenTelemetry)
 </li>
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 Operational experience with PostgreSQL , MongoDB, Redis
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 Security hardening and cloud compliance frameworks ( CIS level 1 , etc )
 </li>
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 Performance tuning and troubleshooting in distributed environments
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 Desired Qualifications
 
 
 
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 <li>
 Previous experience in
 
 fintech
 
 or
 
 high-compliance regulated industries
 
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 Familiarity with
 
 multi-cloud and hybrid architectures
 
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 <li>
 Exposure to
 
 Cloudflare
 
 or other edge/network security platforms
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong documentation habits and experience contributing to runbooks
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 Passion for
 
 resilient system design
 
 and cross-functional infrastructure challenges
 </li>
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 Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 
 NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we&rsquo;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?
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact.
 
 
 Since 2019, we&rsquo;ve become the first regulated Open Banking and Open Finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. We&rsquo;ve processed billions of dollars. We connect millions of accounts. We enable companies like Binance, Careem, and Etisalat to build products that were previously impossible in this region.
 
 
 Our recent $67.5M Series B from General Catalyst and Sequoia isn&rsquo;t just validation: it&rsquo;s fuel. We&rsquo;re expanding into new markets, launching new products, and setting the pace for what financial innovation looks like in MENA.
 
 
 We solve hard problems. We move fast. We hold ourselves to a high standard. And we&rsquo;re looking for people who&rsquo;ve done this before to help us do it right.
 
 
 If you&rsquo;re motivated by building something that lasts, not just something that scales, Lean is 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 When applying for a job at Lean Technologies, we will need to collect, use and share Personal Data about you with different members of our team during the application process. This may mean transferring your data to members of the team in one of our office locations worldwide outside of the country you are in. Please refer to our Privacy Notice on our website for more information about how we may use and store your Personal Data
 
 
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Senior DevOps Engineer

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