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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
In this fatwa:
Working as a platform engineer in a conventional bank may be permissible if the role is limited to general IT infrastructure and does not directly support interest-based transactions. If the job involves designing, maintaining, or operating systems specifically dedicated to Riba-based products, it is impermissible. When possible, working for an Islamic financial institution or another industry is the safer choice.
Responding to your question, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:
Working as a platform or software engineer in a conventional bank is impermissible if your role involves designing, maintaining, or operating systems primarily dedicated to interest-based loans or Riba transactions, as this directly supports an activity forbidden in Islam.
However, if your work falls under general IT or infrastructure support—such as maintaining servers, networks, cloud platforms, or security systems that serve various banking functions—many respected contemporary scholars deem it permissible. They view such work as technically neutral and not directly involved in any particular interest contract. Other scholars, however, adopt a more cautious stance, advising avoidance if a suitable alternative is available.
A balanced approach suggests that if your work is confined to general infrastructure and you are not directly developing or managing interest-based products, you may rely on the more lenient scholarly opinion. Nevertheless, if Allah provides an opportunity for a comparable position in an Islamic financial institution or another industry, that would be the superior and more spiritually reassuring choice.
If you remain uncertain, describe your precise duties to a trusted and knowledgeable scholar and seek their guidance. Above all, pray to Allah to bless your livelihood and guide you to what is most pleasing to Him.
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Almighty Allah knows best.
