Senior Backend Engineer

Wahed


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Sharjah
Contract type: Full time

About Wahed:

We have a passion to reduce financial inequality and exclusion by building world leading financial products and services aimed at giving access to all. We are a New York headquartered Financial Technology (FinTech) company focused on serving values-based (shariah compliant) digital financial services to retail clients globally, starting with wealth management. We have an impressive global team aligned with this purpose and are looking for trail blazers in their fields that will take our customer delivery to new levels. We can promise you a digital first and truly international culture, as well as a fascinating immersion into the world of FinTech and Islamic finance.


Job Brief:

We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers to join our team. As a team member, you will play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new microservices and improving our existing Golang services. Along with product development and improving the infrastructure, engineers are given the opportunity to innovate, experiment and try out new technologies.

Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self-motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.


Job Description:

  • Work closely with product managers and engineers to build backend solutions.
  • Swiftly tackle defects and solve them for good, reducing tech debt along the way.
  • Proactively make improvements to the backend architecture in terms of robustness, security and performance.
  • Leverage APIs for integrations with other platforms.
  • Contribute to automated testing efforts and increasing test coverage.


Job Specification:

  • At least 7+ years of relevant experience in backend software development.
  • Server side coding experience preferably in Golang and writing maintainable, testable code with unit tests.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases preferably ElasticSearch and Cassandra.
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
  • Looking for senior candidates with excellent design skills, taking initiatives like improve architecture, better developer experience, observability, etc.
  • Experience working with AWS features and tools.
  • Product minded: committed to building the best user experience with experience working closely with product managers and other engineers.
  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.
  • Eager and open to learning.


This position is open to candidates based in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, UAE, and the UK, as it will be a fully remote role.

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