Backend Engineer

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Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Hybrid
Junior
Software • Financial Services
The Role
The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain microservices, improve existing Golang services, and collaborate with product managers on backend solutions.
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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 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 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 2 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

Top Skills

AWS
Cassandra
Elasticsearch
Go
Linux
NoSQL
SQL
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
191 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Wahed Inc. (“Wahed”, “Wahed Invest”), is an Ethical and values driven digital investment platform. The platform provides access to diversified portfolios to residents of the US, UK and Malaysia.

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