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sətir

About us

Three engineers who left a bank’s IT department founded Sətir in 2012. Today we are 84 people in Baku and 28 in Ganja, building software for banks, retail, logistics and the public sector.

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Fourteen years

  1. 2012

    Elvin Gasimov, Narmin Hajiyeva and Rauf Aliyev leave the bank and found Sətir. The first order: a contracts system for a small leasing company.

  2. 2014

    The first banking project: an internal system for loan applications. 18 people.

  3. 2016

    The first mobile app, native on iOS and Android. The design team is formed.

  4. 2019

    The Ganja development office opens with 6 people; the first internship runs.

  5. 2021

    The information security system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001. The data team is formed.

  6. 2022

    An e-services portal for a state agency goes live. The first support plan that answers critical incidents around the clock begins.

  7. 2026

    112 people, two offices, more than 40 systems running under support contracts.

Who we are today

112 people in all on 1 October 2026: 71 developers, 14 test engineers, 9 designers, 11 project managers, 4 analysts and 3 people running the office. 63 have been with us for more than 3 years. Teams are built around clients, not projects: a bank’s team works with the same bank for years.

Leadership

  • Elvin Gasimov, co-founder and CEO

    Elvin Gasimov

    Co-founder, CEO

    Spent 7 years as a backend developer in a bank’s IT department. Founded Sətir with two colleagues in 2012; runs contracts, the budget and the largest clients.

  • Narmin Hajiyeva, co-founder and CTO

    Narmin Hajiyeva

    Co-founder, CTO

    Has written Java since 2008. Signs off every project’s architecture and owns the information security system and the ISO 27001 audit.

  • Orkhan Mammadli, Director of Delivery

    Orkhan Mammadli

    Director of Delivery

    Leads 11 project managers and 4 analysts. Sends every client the schedule and budget report every two weeks.

  • Leyla Rustamova, Head of Design

    Leyla Rustamova

    Head of Design

    Runs the work of 9 designers from interviews to the design system. Before Sətir she designed mobile banking apps at an agency in Tbilisi.

  • Tural Babayev, head of the Ganja office

    Tural Babayev

    Head of the Ganja office, mobile

    Opened the Ganja office in 2019 with 6 people; 28 work there now. Also runs the internship.

Two offices

  • A team working at computers in an open office

    Baku office

    84 people · since 2012

    86 Samad Vurgun Street, 6th floor, Nasimi district, Baku

    Management, project managers, analysts, design, the backend, mobile and data teams, DevOps

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  • A large open-plan office with desks and windows

    Ganja development office

    28 people · since 2019

    24 Javad Khan Street, 3rd floor, Ganja

    Frontend and mobile developers, test engineers, the internship

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Certificate

Our information security management system has been certified to ISO/IEC 27001 since 2021; the certificate was renewed in 2024. Certificate number IS 7318204; we send a copy on request.

Join the team

Open vacancies in Baku and Ganja, each with its salary range. A new internship starts in February 2027.

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