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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$110M
1 round on record
Latest round
$110M
Series A · Apr 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
27
+11 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Endeavor, Coatue
The money's age
Long since its last round
65 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
41/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 3 First executive search Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) - Saudi National Apr 22, 2021 Raised a round Series A $110M · led by Checkout.com · MENAbytes Mar 21, 2021 Released an app Tamara | Own your Dream · App Store 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.7 ★
59k ratings
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Apr 2021 $110M Checkout.com lead MENAbytes
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How Tamara hires

Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
106 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
15%
Reposted roles
0%

Tamara scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 15% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 106 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Tamara is a Saudi buy now pay later and shopping platform that lets customers split purchases into instalments. It is integrated with thousands of online and in store merchants across the Gulf and reached unicorn valuation in 2023. The company is regulated by the Saudi Central Bank and has expanded into broader consumer financial products.

News

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News DailyArt Magazine 7 months ago
A 1920s Art Party with Tamara de Lempicka
The twenties are coming and we don't know what to expect, but we can make a short trip to the 1920s with the unique Tamara de Lempicka.
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News DailyArt Magazine 7 months ago
10 Things You Must Know About Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka was many things: a successful artist, a society darling, an expat. Here are 10 facts you must about her
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News YosysHQ Blog 1 year ago
TaMaRa: Towards a Triple Modular Redundancy Pass for Yosys
This is a guest blog post by Matt Youngn# Foreword Although I'm a computer scientist by education, I've always been interested in space since I was a kid. For a long time, I had simply forgotten about this interest, as I got more in-depth into FPGAs, then
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News The Hollywood Reporter 1 year ago
Tamara de Lempicka Is Finally Having Her Moment
20th Century Artist Tamara de Lempicka Is About to Have Her Moment
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Tamara over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
60
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL32%
Java24%
Python20%
JavaScript12%
Frameworks & libraries
Appium4%
Detox4%
Flink4%
Flutter4%
Databases
BigQuery12%
Google BigQuery12%
MySQL8%
Snowflake8%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes32%
Tableau16%
Power BI16%
AWS8%
AI & ML
LLM4%
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Full Tamara tech stack 60 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
27
11 opened / 13 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
80 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
21% ▲
Analytics
18% ▼
HR
14%
Leadership
7% ▲
Operations
7% ▼
Customer Success
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Finance (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Vue.js to stack Oct 2026
Added RabbitMQ to stack Oct 2026
Added Docker to stack Oct 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack Oct 2026
New location: India Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Superset to stack Sep 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack Sep 2026
Added Kanban to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
Riyadh
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Riyadh Saudi Arabia
HQ
Can I provide feedback or suggest stores to Tamara?
11 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Analytics, Finance, Customer Success
King Abdullah Branch Road, King Salman Dist. Building No. 2907, Postal Code 12444, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
seen since Jul 2025 company site, careers board, job postings
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Corporate office
United Arab Emirates
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance, HR, Data Science
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Cairo Egypt
Support & operations
Egypt
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Analytics, Finance, HR
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
New Cairo Egypt
Egypt
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
Berlin Germany
Regional office
Germany
careers board

Jobs

≈ $25k – $72k per year (Estimated) • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Riyadh
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≈ $27k – $64k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • Riyadh
Python
SQL
ETL/ELT
Apply
≈ $44k – $127k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • Riyadh
Java
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Management
Outlook
Agile
Apply
≈ $27k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • India
Java
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Management
Outlook
Agile
Apply
≈ $22k – $44k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • India
Druid
ClickHouse
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Apache Hudi
Redpanda
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
dbt
Flink
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Loki
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
SLI/SLO/SLA
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≈ $16k – $38k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • India
JavaScript
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Frontend
Vue.js
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
Outlook
Agile
Scrum
Apply
In office • 2+ years exp • Dubai
SQL
Braze
Analytics
A/B Testing
Apply
In office • 4+ years exp • India
JavaScript
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
State Management
DevOps
CI/CD
Management
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $27k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • India
Java
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Management
Outlook
Agile
Apply
In office • Nationals only • Part-Time • 2+ years exp • Dubai
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
Scikit-learn
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Git
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
A/B Testing
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Financials

Total raised
$110M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2021 $110M Details