Trainee Software Engineer (Backend)

Contract Duration: 3-6 Months (Extendable)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Compensation: Generous monthly allowance
Location: Doha, Qatar

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About Us
KARTY is a Qatar Central Bank licensed digital payments and money management app offering physical and virtual Visa cards, smart spending insights, subscription tracking, and saving tools — all designed to give users greater visibility and control over their payments.

The Role
We're seeking motivated fresh graduates to join our backend engineering team through our trainee hiring program. You'll work on building and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs that power our fintech platform. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced startup environment while working on real-world financial technology. We'll provide training on the specific technologies we use — what matters most is your strong foundation in computer science fundamentals.

What You'll Do
You'll develop and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services, work with databases to ensure data integrity and security, collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements, write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions, help troubleshoot and debug issues in development and production environments, and learn and implement best practices for security, especially crucial in fintech applications.

What We're Looking For
You should have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming concepts, database concepts and SQL, operating systems and computer networks, software design principles, and understanding of time and space complexity. We're looking for excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills, ability to write clean, logical code, strong attention to detail, eagerness to learn new technologies and frameworks, good communication and teamwork abilities, and passion for building quality software.

Nice to Have
Any programming experience through coursework, personal projects, or internships, familiarity with version control systems like Git, participation in competitive programming or hackathons, understanding of API design concepts, and interest in financial technology would be beneficial.

What We Offer
Structured training and mentorship program, competitive salary for fresh graduates, opportunity to work on a licensed fintech platform, hands-on experience with modern backend technologies, exposure to the full product lifecycle, flexible work environment, and opportunity to grow your career as the company scales.

Job Types: Full-time, New grad

Application Question(s):

• What programming languages are you most comfortable with?
• Rate your programming experience level (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced/Expert)?
• Have you completed any full software development projects
• Have you worked on frontend frameworks or mobile development?
• Have you used version control systems?
• Which track will you be interested in (Backend or Frontend Development, Mobile Development, DevOps, QA)?
• GitHub/Portfolio Link (if available)
• Graduated from a university in Qatar?

Work Location: In person