Meet Muhammad, Method's Software Engineer

Muhammad is a software engineer for Method, based in DC. Prior to Method, he was building the first iteration of AI Chat and Replit Teams @ Replit and working on an internal ETL Tooling @ Mastercard. Below is a candid interview with Muhammad about himself and what it's like to work at Method:

Describe your role on the team. 

I’m a software engineer based in our DC office. As soon as I got to Method, I got to work on a wide range of things so I’m not pigeonholed into one product. Some months I get to work on user-facing features like the dashboard, other months I'll dive into infrastructure work, and lately I’ve been building quality-of-life improvements for our internal tooling. It's a really enjoyable mix where I can pick and choose what I focus on. There’s never a dull moment in what I can tinker with.

What is the most impactful piece of work you have done at Method?

Jose, CEO, brought up Live Transactions - API support for real-time transaction data. The concept is simple: swipe your card, and within seconds you get a notification like "You just spent $5 at Starbucks." The system is built to scale to hundreds or thousands of transactions per second, processing them and linking them to the right accounts with just a couple of extra API calls.

Customers are using it for rewards programs, merchant spend tracking, and personal finance features. We currently have several customers in testing, with more launches on the horizon! Getting to work on this from start to finish has been very impactful in building Method.

What is the most ambitious personal project you have ever completed?

I started taking boxing classes about a year and a half ago, and I really enjoy it. My gym hosts amateur competitions between local gyms, nothing professional, but still competitive.

I'm in the process of trying to compete in one, and I think it'll be really fun, though I'm a bit nervous. When you're training with people at your gym, you're still getting hit, but they're not trying to hit you hard. In a competition, though, they actually are trying to hit you hard.

It's an ambitious goal of mine. I'd really like to do at least one fight. I've talked to Artem (Finance & BizOps Lead) about it sometimes too, since I know he grew up doing a lot of martial arts.

If you weren’t working on Method what would you be working on?

I'd love to open my own cafe- a cozy little coffee shop that serves small bites like flatbreads and pastries. I always joke with people that if any startup I work at makes it big, I'm going to quit and open a cafe. I'll make really good coffee, find a tiny spot somewhere, and just work there and enjoy it. I love bread and my favorite type is this rosemary biscuit I had in DC at Baked and Wired. I’d want to serve something similar. I love to bake my own bread.

Secondly, if I wasn't working at Method or running my own cafe, I would want to be a travel influencer without the influencing and just have people pay me to travel the world, haha.

Who is one person at Method who you really admire and why?

Mustafa, our founding engineer. He's built so much of Method's core systems, so when you run into an issue, he can jump in and help debug it faster than anyone. But beyond that, he's always willing to provide guidance and feedback on designs before you even start building. It's really valuable to have someone like that on the team who has that much context and is always down to help you think through a problem.

What's been your favorite memory with the team so far?

I really enjoyed go-karting. I think it was during my first week I joined the company offsite in Austin at the end of 2024. It was great to meet everyone, but go-karting was especially fun because I'd never done it at that level before. It felt super legit at COTA, not like a kiddie go-kart track. These things actually went fast, and we were out there in bad weather, which made it even more memorable. I didn’t get on podium but I also didn’t crash - so I call that a win. Favorite memory and I can’t wait to run it back on the track!