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Shamaazi is a fintech-for-good company dedicated to creating innovative technologies that empower people to make meaningful financial decisions. 
Specialising in products that channel funds for charitable causes, Shamaazi has helped facilitate over £17 million in donations to date.&nbsp; Founded in 2015, Shamaazi has experienced rapid growth, including a 153% increase in donations during the pandemic. As we expand globally, we are committed to building cutting-edge solutions that maximise charitable impact.&nbsp;<br><br>Don't see a job that matches your exact skills, but want to find out more, share your CV to talent@shaamazi.com<br>

About Us

You will embark on the most meaningful journey of your career. It’s a place where you’ll build meaningful connections with those who share your passion for building meaningful things.

Meaning Matters

You will work the hardest you ever have for an elevated mission that you care for; enriching connections around the world. Your connections at home sit sacredly at the heart of that mission for us, so go hard and then please go home.

Go Hard and Go Home

We don’t just build products; we obsess on building great people, and great people build great products. You will go further here than you ever have - take the company with you

Grow Faster than the Company

So whilst we champion collaborative and cross-functional teamwork, we take extreme ownership over our mission. If you see the floor needs to be mopped, it’s your responsibility.

Mop the Floor

The real boss is our customers. We consistently work closely together, with our users as our guiding star, to build a more connected world.

What boss?

Our Values

Shamaazi has a dynamic, remote-first culture, with a focus on making work work for you. We give generous budgets for home set-ups. Flexible work environment with remote work options, allowing for autonomy and work-life

Remote-First Culture

Annual Learning & Development budget as well 3 paid leaves for courses or trainings

Learning & Development

25 days annual leave plus the usual public holidays

Holiday

Health Care

Flexible and remote working - aside from core meetings, you can choose when you start and end your day. Quarterly team meetings in London based on job requirements / team structure

Team Meetups

Benefits&nbsp;

MyTenNights automates donations across the last ten nights of Ramadan; the most important nights for giving in the Muslim calendar

MyTenNights

MyTenDays automates donations across the ten days of Hajj; the most rewarding days for charity giving in the Muslim calendar

MyTenDays

MyFridays automated donations for the Muslim community every Friday during "The Last Hour" between Asr and Maghrib

MyFridays

Our Products

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<html><head></head><body><h3><strong>About Shamaazi</strong></h3>
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<div>Shamaazi is a fintech-for-good company dedicated to creating innovative technologies that empower people to make meaningful financial decisions. Specialising in products that channel funds for charitable causes, Shamaazi has helped facilitate over £70 million in donations to date. Our flagship products, MyTenNights, MyTenDays, and MyFridays, are reshaping how people engage in charitable giving:</div>
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<div><strong>MyTenNights</strong>: Automates donations during Ramadan, ensuring contributions on the most spiritually significant nights.</div>
<div><br><strong>MyTenDays:</strong> Assists Muslims in automating donations during the first ten days of Dhul Hijjah, maximising blessings during this sacred time.</div>
<div><br><strong>MyFridays</strong>: Enables Muslims to give charity each Friday, emphasising spiritual benefits during the Hour of Acceptance and simplifying regular giving.</div>
<div><br>Founded in 2015, Shamaazi has experienced rapid growth, including a 153% increase in donations during the pandemic. As we expand globally, we are committed to building cutting-edge solutions that maximise charitable impact.</div>
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<h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3>
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<div>As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Shamaazi, you’ll play a key role in building and evolving the systems that power our products and support our mission. You’ll take ownership of delivering high-quality features end-to-end, working across the stack to solve meaningful, real-world problems.</div>
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<div>You'll build the platform primitives and integration layers that power our product suite; designing APIs, event flows, and shared services that enable multiple products to scale reliably. You'll work closely with product engineers to define clean contracts between backend systems and frontend experiences, making pragmatic decisions that balance delivery speed with system resilience.</div>
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<div>You’ll join a small, remote-first, product-driven team with real influence, helping strengthen core systems while supporting the platform’s continued evolution.</div>
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<h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3>
<div><br>Own outcomes end-to-end: Lead features from concept to production across backend and frontend systems, including deployment, reliability, and security considerations, ensuring they deliver measurable user and product impact.</div>
<div><br>Balance pace with quality: Make informed trade-offs between speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability, progressively evolving systems to meet future product and platform needs.</div>
<div><br>Strengthen core product journeys: Enhance key flows such as donations, identity, payments, and recurring giving, reducing friction, improving reliability, and supporting scalable growth.</div>
<div><br>Shape pragmatic architecture: Influence design decisions for APIs, event flows, and shared services across products, ensuring systems are maintainable, testable, deployable, and developer-friendly, while avoiding over-engineering.</div>
<div><br>Build for future growth: Design and implement reusable backend services, clean interfaces, and scalable architecture to support mobile experiences, personalisation, notifications, and evolving payment mechanisms.</div>
<div><br>Set the engineering bar: Uphold strong engineering practices through clean, well-tested code and thoughtful, efficient code reviews, while applying system thinking and solving complex problems effectively.</div>
<div><br>Lift the team: Mentor junior engineers, share context early, and unblock delivery through hands-on collaboration.</div>
<div><br>Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with product and design to define solutions, align on trade-offs, and deliver outcomes with clarity and speed.</div>
<div><br>Operate with autonomy: Own work independently while keeping the team aligned through clear updates, decisions, and early risk signals.</div>
<h3><br><strong>Who You Are</strong></h3>
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<li>You’re an experienced full stack engineer (4–7+ years) who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and:</li>
<li>Takes ownership of your work and delivers end-to-end impact</li>
<li>Contributes thoughtfully to technical discussions and trade-offs</li>
<li>Balances delivery speed with long-term maintainability and system reliability</li>
<li>Continuously learns new domains and technologies with a growth mindset</li>
<li>Works effectively with product, design, and remote engineering teams</li>
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<h3><br><strong>Technical Experience</strong></h3>
<div><br><strong>You’ll bring strong experience across the following areas:</strong></div>
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<li>You’ll bring 4-7+ years &nbsp;building production software with strong experience in;</li>
<li>Full Stack delivery: Building and shipping features across backend and frontend, from implementation to production<br>Backend development: Building services in TypeScript (Node.js) (or similar backend language with willingness to work primarily in TypeScript)</li>
<li>Frontend development: Building user-facing application in React and modern web patterns</li>
<li>AWS infrastructure: Operating serverless and containerized architectures in production</li>
<li>API design: Creating reliable APIs and integration layers that multiple systems depend on</li>
<li>Event-driven systems: Building asynchronous systems with queues, webhooks, scheduled jobs and background processing</li>
<li>Infrastructure as code: Using Terraform, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling</li>
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<h3>Bonus</h3>
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<li>Payments infrastructure (Stripe, tokenization, orchestration, reconciliation)</li>
<li>Notifications &amp; messaging systems (email, SMS, push)</li>
<li>Microservices and distributed systems (service mesh, API gateways, observability)</li>
<li>Identity &amp; authentication flows (OAuth, multi-tenancy)</li>
<li>Mobile-first aware backend design (offline sync, payload optimization)</li>
<li>Compliance-sensitive domains (GDPR, financial regulations)</li>
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<h3>You’ll also bring:</h3>
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<li>A delivery-first mindset, balancing execution speed with system quality</li>
<li>Curiosity and pragmatism when choosing the right architecture for the problem</li>
<li>Awareness and appetite for modern and evolving technologies, frameworks and methods across the development space</li>
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<h3>Application Process</h3>
<div><br>Recruiter Screen&nbsp;<br>Technical Task&nbsp;<br>Technical / System Design interview (virtual, 1hr)&nbsp;<br>Team fit interview (virtual, 1h)&nbsp;</div>
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<h3>Perks &amp; Benefits</h3>
<div>We know every company offers benefits. But we think ours stack up pretty well, and we care about making work better in ways that count.</div>
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<div>Here’s a flavour of what you’ll get:</div>
<div>💫 <strong>Competitive salary</strong><br>&nbsp;We believe in rewarding great work, because you deserve it.<br>🏖️ <strong>Paid time off</strong><br>&nbsp;Holiday entitlement and public holidays will align with local regulations and market standards in your country of residence.<br><strong>💪 Remote-first flexibility</strong><br>&nbsp;We focus on outcomes, not hours. Aside from core collaboration time, you have flexibility in how you structure your day.<br><strong>🌍 Team connection</strong><br>&nbsp;Regular fun virtual team days to stay connected across locations.</div>
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<h3>👥 Our Team &amp; Way We Work:</h3>
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<div>We’re a remote-first team, with regular (quarterly) meetups in London. But this role will be a fully remote opportunity. We focus on trust, flexibility, and high performance, with core hours to keep things running smoothly. It's a fast-paced environment where things change quickly, but we ensure you have the support and resources needed to thrive!</div>
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<div><strong>🧍 Your setup</strong><br>&nbsp;As a remote-first team, we expect team members to have access to a suitable home working setup and reliable internet connection.</div>
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<h3>Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion at Shamaazi</h3>
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<div>At Shamaazi, we believe that building products for good starts with building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We're committed to creating an inclusive, respectful, and empowering workplace where everyone feels they belong.</div>
<div>We actively seek out and celebrate different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences — whether rooted in culture, faith, identity, or lived experience. Our work spans global communities and causes, and we know that meaningful impact is only possible when every voice is heard.</div>
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<div>If you’re passionate about using technology to drive positive change, we encourage you to apply. We’re here for good, and we’re building a team that is too.</div>
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<h3>💝 Values&nbsp;</h3>
<div><br>1. <strong>Meaning Matters: </strong>You will embark on the most meaningful journey of your career. It’s a place where you’ll build meaningful connections with those who share your passion for building meaningful things.<br><br></div>
<div>2. <strong>Go Hard and Go Home:</strong> You will work the hardest you ever have for an elevated mission that you care for; enriching connections around the world. Your connections at home sit sacredly at the heart of that mission for us, so go hard and then please go home.<br><br></div>
<div>3.<strong> Grow Faster Than the Company</strong>: We don’t just build products; we obsess on building great people, and great people build great products. You will go further here than you ever have - take the company with you.<br><br></div>
<div>4. <strong>Mop the Floor:</strong> So whilst we champion collaborative and cross-functional teamwork, we take extreme ownership over our mission. If you see the floor needs to be mopped, it’s your responsibility.<br><br></div>
<div>5. <strong>What boss?</strong> The real boss is our customers. We consistently work closely together, with our users as our guiding star, to build a more connected world.</div></body></html>