Backend Engineer – FinTech (Cairo preferred)

About the role

nsave is a London‑based fintech building a global platform for trusted USD accounts, payments and investments. As a Backend Engineer you will design, build and scale the core infrastructure that powers these financial services for users in high‑inflation, unstable banking environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and own critical backend infrastructure, including service architecture, reliability, build and release pipelines, and integration with compliance and banking services.
• Identify weak spots in code and infrastructure, prioritize fixes and proactively improve system health.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and operations teams to ship features across multiple markets.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, code quality and process improvements as the platform scales.

Required profile

• Strong engineering fundamentals with knowledge of clean architecture, layered abstractions and complexity trade‑offs.
• Broad platform knowledge across backend architecture, databases, site reliability, infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Security‑mindset capable of designing robust financial systems that meet high compliance standards.
• Business‑oriented decision making, balancing speed with quality.

Required skills

• Backend development experience in languages and frameworks suitable for scalable financial systems.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation.
• CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance.