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Backend Engineer

Wahed· Engineering
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Hybrid (Mumbai)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Backend Engineer position at Wahed (Mumbai, Hybrid, Full Time) focused on building and maintaining Golang microservices, improving backend architecture, and collaborating with product and engineering teams in a global fintech context.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:GolangSQLLinuxAWS
Nice to have:NoSQL (ElasticSearch, Cassandra)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Wahed

Halal investing made simple

Wahed is an digital Halal investing platform that’s making investing in line with your values more accessible, easy and affordable to everyone.

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