Software Developer, Payments

Karachi Data employs 770 people across engineering hubs in Karachi and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Software Developer, Payments. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You can work from home anywhere in Pakistan. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

What you'll do:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

What you need:

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Preferred:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Compensation: PKR 210,000 - PKR 270,000 per month

Perks and benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Two bonuses a year
• Fuel allowance
• Life insurance

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Karachi Data.