Frontend Engineer

Alaan is an AI-powered expense management platform designed to simplify finance for businesses in the Middle East, helping them save both time and money. Our platform offers everything businesses need to manage and control their expenses in one place, including smart corporate cards, AI-powered automation and insights, streamlined accounting, and centralised dashboards.

Since 2022, over 800 businesses in the UAE—from startups to enterprises like Al Barari, Rove, Rivoli, Punjab National Bank, and CarSwitch—have used Alaan to control their spending and reduce costs. Together, our customers have saved over AED 100 million using Alaan.

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Our FE stack

• Next.js
• Tailwind, Radix ui, Shadcn UI
• React-query
• Playwright

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Responsibilities

• Working closely with the product and backend team to implement new features according to design specifications.
• Writing e2e tests using Playwright.
• 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

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Requirements

• 2+ years of frontend experience with React.
• Solid TypeScript knowledge would be great, but at least fundamental knowledge is required.
• Experience with our FE stack is a bonus
• Ability to turn hi-fi designs into pixel-perfect UI.
• Passion for creating delightful user experiences.
• Good communication (Fluency in English, bonus: experience with remote teams)

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Why work at Alaan

• Hybrid culture with a seriously high degree of flexibility.
• Alaan is a tested model, but in a new market, it is a chance to be a part of a rocket ship just waiting to take off.
• Equity compensation for all employees to bring a high degree of ownership into your work. So as the company grows, you grow with it.
• Alaan is part of the Y Combinator W23 cohort and is backed by a fantastic set of investors who helped build some of the world's largest companies.
• Frequent company off-sites to keep the remotely distributed team closely knit together.
• A MacBook to make your life easier!