About WahedWe 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 BriefWe 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.
This position is open for all locations.
Job Description Work closely with product managers and engineers to build backend solutionsSwiftly tackle defects and solve them for good, reducing tech debt along the wayProactively make improvements to the backend architecture in terms of robustness, security and performanceLeverage APIs for integrations with other platformsContribute to automated testing efforts and increasing test coverageJob Specification At least 2 years commercial experience in backend software developmentServer side coding experience preferably in Golang and writing maintainable, testable code with unit testsExperience with SQL and NoSQL databases preferably ElasticSearch and CassandraComfortable working in a Linux environmentExperience working with AWS features and toolsProduct minded: committed to building the best user experience with experience working closely with product managers and other engineersUnderstand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealismEager and open to learning #J-18808-Ljbffr