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Backend Engineer

Wahed

Job Location:

Mumbai - India

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 17 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 8 October 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Wahed:

The global financial system wasnt built for everyone. For millions of people its reliance on interest (riba) creates a barrier to managing money and building wealth without compromising their values.

At Wahed were changing that. We are a global fintech company on a mission to build a new financial systemone that is ethical accessible and entirely interest-free. From our offices across the globe our team is building products that were once deemed impossible from pioneering Shariah-compliant equity ETFs creating true riba-free alternatives to high yield savings accounts to creating no-leverage real estate investments for truly interest-free income producing assets. If youre driven to solve complex problems and believe finance should empower not exclude join us in building a more equitable financial future.

Job Brief:

We are looking for Backend Engineers to join our Engineering 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 5 years commercial 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
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

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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