Hybrid Head of Engineering

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About the role

  • Build and lead a world-class engineering team based in Egypt
  • Oversee a hybrid team of in-house, contract, and outsourced developers globally
  • Deliver on dopay’s product roadmap across payroll, cards, Earned Wage Access, and future fintech products
  • Ensure code quality, security, and regulatory compliance
  • Implement scalable engineering practices, agile workflows, and QA processes
  • Own system performance, infrastructure reliability, and uptime
  • Drive architectural decisions that support scale, speed, and new feature delivery
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align technology with business priorities

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ in leadership roles
  • Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams, ideally from scratch
  • Strong background working with distributed or hybrid teams, including external vendors
  • Hands-on experience delivering secure, high-availability platforms
  • Familiarity with or openness to learning our stack (Ruby on Rails is our primary backend framework) is strongly preferred
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Fluent in English and Arabic
  • Experience in fintech, SaaS, or regulated environments is preferred
  • **Nice to Have**
  • Familiarity with the Egyptian and global fintech landscape and with compliance requirements
  • Experience with payroll, payments, or card infrastructure

Benefits

  • **Why Join Us?**
  • Work on a mission-driven product that is changing lives by providing financial access to underserved populations.
  • The chance to build a team and tech culture from the ground up
  • Build and lead a high-caliber, international team and shape the future of payroll and financial services in emerging markets.
  • Competitive compensation and the opportunity to drive real impact at scale.
  • If you’re a strategic and heads-on engineering leader looking for your next challenge in a fast-growing fintech company, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to join dopay as our **Head of Engineering**.

Job title

Head of Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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