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
- 3-6 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails with a solid grasp of Rails conventions, ActiveRecord, and the MVC pattern
- Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful APIs consumed by web and mobile clients
- Solid command of PostgreSQL schema design, indexing strategies, query optimisation, and migrations
- Experience with background job processing using Sidekiq and Redis for async payroll and notification workflows
- Understanding of security fundamentals: OAuth2, JWT, data encryption at rest and in transit
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams with proper Git workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
Why Join dopay
You'll be 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.
