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title: 'Backend Engineer at Wahed'
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# Backend Engineer at Wahed

- **Company:** Wahed
- **Location:** Mumbai, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wahed.com/fd6b94b5-62a4-4b3a-a157-a8631528500d

## Job description

About Wahed: The global financial system wasn't 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, we're changing that. We are a global fintech company on a mission to build a new financial system—one 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 you're 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

## About Wahed

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wahed is a digital Halal investing platform that makes Shariah-compliant, ethical investing accessible and affordable for a global audience.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Mohsin Siddiqui (CEO) and co‑founders (not publicly detailed)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Financial Services – Digital Investment / Islamic Finance
- **Target Customers**: B2C – individual investors seeking Shariah‑compliant portfolios; also serves B2B through ETF products.
- **Mission**: “Create a Riba‑free society” by providing easy, values‑aligned investing tools.

## Products & Services
- **Wahed Invest Platform**: A robo‑advisory service that builds and manages diversified, Shariah‑compliant portfolios based on risk tolerance and time horizon. (SaaS/Fintech)
- **HLAL ETF** (NASDAQ): The first Halal equity ETF listed on NASDAQ, offering diversified U.S. large‑cap exposure compliant with Islamic principles. (ETF)
- **SPUS ETF** (NASDAQ): An ESG‑aware and Shariah‑compliant ETF tracking U.S. companies with strong environmental, social, and governance practices. (ETF)
- **KWIN ETF** (launched 2025): A thematic ETF focused on halal‑compliant investments in emerging markets. (ETF)
- **Zakat Calculator & Purification Reporting**: Tools to help users calculate Zakat and simplify purification of non‑compliant income. (Feature)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **400,000+ customers** globally (as of 2025) | Total funding of ~$34M+ (Seed £6M, Series A $25M, Venture round, Debt $3M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Specific investor names are not publicly detailed in available sources; the company is backed by a mix of venture and debt investors. Shariah Committee of senior Islamic finance scholars oversees product compliance.
- **Growth Signals**: 13.8% headcount growth YoY (137 employees); expansion into Nigeria, South Africa, and UAE; launch of KWIN ETF; 43,784 LinkedIn followers (+18% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First‑mover** in digital Halal robo‑advisory with a global footprint (US, UK, Malaysia, UAE, Nigeria, India, South Africa).
- **Independent Shariah Committee** provides continuous certification and oversight – a key trust differentiator.
- **NASDAQ‑listed ETFs** (HLAL, SPUS) offer institutional‑grade access to Shariah‑compliant investing.
- **Integrated Zakat & purification tools** reduce friction for observant investors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion** into high‑potential Muslim‑majority markets (Nigeria, South Africa, UAE).
- **Product innovation** through thematic ETFs (KWIN) and ESG‑aligned offerings.
- **Scaling the customer base** beyond 400k by simplifying onboarding and increasing financial literacy content.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven environment** – employees report feeling empowered by the company’s goal of creating a Riba‑free society.
- **Global, diverse team** – workforce spans 15 countries, with offices in New York, London, Kuala Lumpur, Sharjah, Abuja, Mumbai, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg.
- **Hybrid/remote‑friendly** – roles listed as “Hybrid” or “Remote” on the careers page; flexible work arrangements.
- **Growth opportunities** – 13.8% headcount growth and expanding product lines offer career advancement.
- **Culture quotes**: “Wahed is a wonderful place to work… innovative and inspiring environment, backed by incredible leadership” and “empowered me to accomplish heights in my career at a pace that I wouldn’t have achieved elsewhere.”

## Sources
1. [wahed.com](https://www.wahed.com/)
2. [wahed.com/who-are-we](https://www.wahed.com/who-are-we)
3. [wahed.com/global/career](https://www.wahed.com/global/career)
4. [jobs.lever.co/wahed.com](https://jobs.lever.co/wahed.com/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/wahedinvest](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/wahedinvest)

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