Staff Backend Engineer (Ledger & Settlement)

Bridge Intelligence; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,674,000 - 3,348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

High-spec equipment

Learning budget

Equity options

Job summary

Bridge Intelligence is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in Lahore to establish and develop core custody ledger and settlement services. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in backend systems, with expertise in designing reliable and high-integrity transaction flows. This full-time role emphasizes performance, operational ownership, and security practices, offering a market-competitive salary and benefits, including comprehensive health coverage and equity options.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building backend systems, ideally in payments or ledger applications.
• Strong architecture skills with a focus on auditability and performance.
• Operational ownership with experience in metrics and post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Build core custody ledger and settlement services.
• Implement high-integrity transaction flows and audit trails.
• Ensure reliability engineering and incident-resilient design.

Skills

Backend system development

API design

Event-driven architecture

Data modeling

Security practices

Job description

# Staff Backend Engineer (Ledger & Settlement)DEPARTMENTEngineeringLOCATIONOn-Site (Lahore)TYPEFull-time## The RoleWe are looking for a **Staff Backend Engineer** to build the core custody ledger and settlement services that everything else depends on. You will implement high-integrity transaction flows, audit trails, and integrations that can survive regulator and bank scrutiny.## What You'll DoREQ\_XX**Build the Core Ledger**: account model, balances, postings, reconciliation hooks, idempotency, and audit logs.REQ\_XX**Settlement & Transfer Flows**: custody movements, brokerage execution records, and rail-ready primitives.REQ\_XX**Integrations**: banks/PSPs, KYT/screening providers, and internal services via clean APIs.REQ\_XX**Reliability Engineering**: timeouts, retries, backpressure, observability, and incident-resilient design.REQ\_XX**Data Model Discipline**: canonical vs projection layers, outbox/eventing patterns, strong migrations.REQ\_XX**Security-by-Default**: access control, encryption, key management integration, and least privilege.## What We're Looking ForREQ\_XX**Experience**: 8+ Years Experience building backend systems (payments/ledger/high-integrity systems preferred).REQ\_XX**Strong Architecture Skills**: event-driven patterns, consistency tradeoffs, and auditability.REQ\_XX**Performance Mindset**: low-latency APIs with high throughput and safe failure modes.REQ\_XX**Operational Ownership**: on-call maturity, logging, metrics, and post-mortems.REQ\_XX**Strong Engineering Taste**: simple designs that scale and stay maintainable.## Compensation and BenefitsREQ\_XX**Salary**: Market-competitive (PKR or USD pegged).BEN\_XX**Equity**: Meaningful early equity.REQ\_XX**Health**: Comprehensive medical coverage.REQ\_XX**Perks**: High-spec equipment and learning budget.### HIRING\_PROTOCOL // MEET\_THE\_TEAM#### Hamza DastagirFounder CEO"Founder at Bridge Intelligence. Building regulated custody and settlement infrastructure. I’m looking for people who can turn ambiguity into simple, auditable systems that scale."ConnectFuture CoworkerThis could be you. If you care about shipping high-trust fintech products with real-world impact, we should talk.### Ready to build?Help us engineer the next generation of financial rails. We review applications on a rolling basis.