Back-End Engineer
Dopay · Cairo, Egypt ·
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 3+ years
Key responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain Ruby on Rails services and RESTful APIs supporting payroll processing, EWA disbursements, and financial reporting.
Build and maintain integrations with banking partners, payment gateways, and third-party financial data providers in compliance with CBE regulations.
Collaborate with product and frontend teams to deliver features end-to-end, from requirements to production deployment.
Manage background job pipelines with Sidekiq and Redis for payroll batch processing, wage disbursements, and async notifications.
Own service reliability, write RSpec unit and integration tests, set up monitoring, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure 99.9%+ uptime.
Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and the definition of Rails engineering best practices across the team.
Optimise ActiveRecord queries and database performance to handle high-throughput financial transaction loads.
Champion security-first development practices in line with PCI-DSS and financial data protection standards.
Requirements
Benefits
Why join dopay?
You’ll be part of a fast-growing fintech company revolutionizing payroll disbursement in Egypt and work closely with senior leadership on one of the most important milestones in the company’s journey. This role offers long-term ownership beyond licensing and the opportunity to help shape how a fintech operates under regulation at scale.