
Muhammad Mairaj
Sr. Backend Engineer
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Salary / Daily rate
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Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Backend Engineer building the infrastructure where traditional finance and crypto intersect. Currently engineering a fintech platform that runs on-chain stablecoin accounts, yield-bearing vaults, and DEX integrations on one side — and ACH transfers, bank account linking, KYC pipelines, and state-by-state compliance on the other. I've shipped fraud detection systems, multi-layer compliance gating, outbox-pattern messaging, smart contract integrations, and token swap routing across both. Before that, I was at NayaPay (a Lakson Group fintech), where I built the onboarding experience for individual and merchant users, engineered a secure payment link system, and worked in close partnership with product, QA, and business stakeholders in an Agile/XP environment. That's where I developed a sharp sense for how compliance-heavy financial products need to work end-to-end: from the UI a user sees to the systems underneath. My background also spans high-throughput data infrastructure: ETL pipelines, Kafka, Debezium, event-driven microservices, replication and sharding. I bring that rigor to every layer I work in. I translate complex technical tradeoffs into language stakeholders can act on. I care about the details: correct error boundaries, audit-safe data models, queries that don't break at scale. Fintech. Blockchain. Systems design. DeFi.
Work experience
Sr. Software Engineer
Funavry Technologies
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
● Built NestJS monorepo (Turborepo) for fintech platform combining on-chain USDC (Base) with Plaid/Stripe banking ● Designed PostgreSQL schemas with Drizzle ORM; managed complex migrations across dev/staging/production environments ● Implemented deBridge token swap flows (same-chain + cross-chain) with idempotency, gas sponsorship via Privy ● Built unified crypto transaction tracking across deposits, withdrawals, and swaps with source/destination tagging ● Developed secure single-use payment link system with atomic consumption and rate-limited public endpoints ● Integrated blockchain infrastructure: ethers.js contract calls, tx receipt polling, multi-RPC fallback providers ● Built admin CRUD APIs with S3 uploads, RBAC guards, Swagger docs, and input sanitization.
Sr. Backend Engineer
Normies
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Hybrid
Building the next big crypto fintech!!!
Senior Software Engineer
NayaPay
Jul 2024 - May 2025
11 months
Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
NayaPay is a fintech company under the prestigious Lakson Group, focusing on innovative financial solutions. - Developed an Onboarding module in React 18 for multiple user types, including individuals and merchants, ensuring a seamless registration process. - Translated complex Figma designs into pixel-perfect, responsive layouts using Material UI, enhancing user experience and accessibility. - Optimized error-handling mechanisms and custom Formik components to improve system resilience and scalability. - Collaborated closely with the product and QA teams to deliver a smooth user experience in NayaPay ARC. - Designed and implemented a secure payment link system using Formik v2.2, custom React hooks, and TypeScript - Improved code reusability by 40% through the development of custom components for input elements using FormIk and Material UI. - Collaborated closely with business stakeholders in an Agile/Extreme Programming environment to define user stories, estimate tasks, and plan sprints.
Software Engineer
Softstribe Solutions
Jul 2020 - Jul 2024
4 years 1 month
Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan
- Maintenance: Maintained website's hosting and managed to keep it online and up-to-date - Scraping: Scraped thousands of apps from third-party sources, and stored them in an SQL database - Troubleshooting: Maintained and fixed hundreds of bugs of a PHP-based website - Migrations: Migrated a database of 50K records from a PHP site to a custom Django CMS - Database: Migrated a database of 8000+ posts from WP to custom Django CMS - Automation: Wrote automated Selenium-based scraping scripts
Wordpress Developer
Super Stars Bio
May 2018 - Jul 2020
2 years 3 months
Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan
– SEO: Leveraged the power of SEO, and ranked keywords resulting in an 18% revenue increase – Maintenance: Maintained the web experience through various outages
Freelancing as a WordPress Developer
Fiverr, Envato Studio, Direct ClientsFreelance
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 11 months
Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan
- Strong profiles: Had quite strong profiles at Fiverr and Envato Studio - Offerings: Worked on hundreds of websites, provided services like Page Speed Optimization, Technical SEO, WordPress troubleshooting, database migrations and recovered hacked websites - Experience: Worked on all range of websites from static websites to highly functional eCommerce/membership based websites. - All-rounder: Extensive hands-on experience of SQL, PHP, technical skills and troubleshooting on LAMP stack.
Education
Amal Academy
Amal Career-Prep Fellow
2022 - 2022
5 months
The 3-month long Amal Career-Prep Fellowship is a professional development program to help our youth develop the resilience, positive attitude, and skills needed for a successful career and life. We follow a blended learning mode which combines online courses (Teachable), project works (Google Classroom), and activity based online sessions.
National Institute of Leather Technology
FSc, Pre Engineering
2013 - 2015
2 years 1 month
Faran High School
SSC, Science
2011 - 2012
1 year 1 month
Karachi University
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General
Licenses & certifications
0-100 Full Stack Web Development
Issued: Jun 2024
Java Tutorial for Beginners
Issued: Oct 2023
NDG Linux Unhatched
Issued: Jun 2023
Webflow 101
Issued: Jun 2023
SQL (Basic) Certificate
Issued: Jun 2022
Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Issued: Dec 2021
Foundations of Project Management
Issued: Dec 2021
Intro to DFIR: The Divide and Conquer Process (3 hours)
Issued: Nov 2021
ES6 for Everyone
Issued: Aug 2017