Backend Engineer, PAKISTAN

Story Terrace Inc.; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 15,294,000 - 30,588,000; Full time

Job summary

nsave is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, implement, and scale infrastructure powering its fintech services. You will own critical subsystems, collaborate with CTO and engineering teams, and help ensure secure and compliant operations across markets.

You will work in an independent contractor role, contributing to architecture, reliability, and integration with banking services, while balancing speed and quality in a rapidly evolving fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
• Proficiency in backend languages and frameworks relevant to scalable financial systems.
• Ability to operate independently and execute in fast-moving environments.
• Experience in startups, fintech, or regulated environments is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and own infrastructure, service architecture, reliability, build/release, and banking/compliance integrations.
• Improve system health by identifying weak spots and prioritising fixes.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and operations to ship features across markets.
• Contribute to engineering practices, code quality, and process improvements as we scale.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

Infrastructure

Security-minded

Tools

CI/CD

Databases

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

About nsave

nsave is a fintech company headquartered in London. Founded by Amer Baroudi and Abdallah AbuHashem, our vision is to "Protect and grow the wealth of the financially excluded". We have built a global platform that provide trusted USD accounts, global payments, and investments for individuals from distressed economies, where inflation is high and banking systems are unstable. Our compliance-by-design approach and proprietary technology allow us to deliver these services securely and at scale.

To date, nsave has raised $22M from leading investors including Sequoia Capital, TQ Ventures, Y Combinator, and SV Angel. Our team has grown 200% in the last year, and with so much more ahead, we're just getting started!

Learn more at www.nsave.com.

Location: Pakistan (Lahore or Karachi preferred)

Engagement Type: Independent Contractor

About the Role

As our Backend Engineer, you will build and scale the infrastructure powering nsave's financial services. Working closely with the CTO and engineering team, you'll own critical backend subsystems — from service architecture and reliability to security and compliance integrations — serving tens of thousands of users across multiple jurisdictions.

Who You Are

• Strong engineering fundamentals: You build and optimise software systems with solid knowledge of clean architecture, layered abstractions, and complexity tradeoffs
• Broad platform knowledge: You're comfortable across backend architecture, databases, site reliability, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
• Security-minded: You can design and manage robust financial systems with high security and compliance requirements
• Business-oriented: Your technical decisions are informed by product and business context, and you know how to balance speed with quality

How You'll Make a Difference

• Design, implement, and own critical infrastructure — including service architecture, reliability, build and release, and integration with compliance and banking services
• Proactively improve system health by identifying weak spots in the codebase and infrastructure, and prioritising fixes
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to ship features across multiple markets
• Contribute to engineering best practices, code quality, and process improvements as we scale

What We're Looking For

• Experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
• Proficiency in backend languages and frameworks relevant to scalable financial systems
• Ability to operate independently and execute in fast-moving environments
• Experience in startups, fintech, or regulated environments is strongly preferred

nsave Values

Alongside professional excellence, we look for people whose values align with ours:

• Service — "Mission First": We put the mission, our customers, and our team above self.
• Urgency — "Stay focused. Move fast": We act with urgency and intention, concentrating on what matters most.
• Ownership — "Act as an Owner": We take responsibility for outcomes end-to-end.
• Standards — "Pursue Excellence": We hold ourselves to high personal standards and continuously improve.

Contractor Classification Notice

This role is offered on a freelance / independent contractor basis. Contractors are not employees of nsave and are responsible for their own taxes, insurance, and statutory obligations.

nsave is an equal opportunity organisation. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.