Head of Engineering

About dopay: dopay is transforming payroll and financial services for businesses in emerging markets. Our digital payroll platform enables businesses to seamlessly pay employees and contractors, providing them with instant access to financial services via dopay prepaid cards. We are growing rapidly in Egypt, our first market, and are gearing up to scale into new regions. Our mission is to bring financial inclusion to millions of workers who are currently excluded from the traditional banking system.

dopay has been recognized as one of the most promising fintech companies worldwide, having been named to the CB Insights Fintech 100 list.

About the Role
We're looking for a seasoned and entrepreneurial Head of Engineering to lead dopay’s growing engineering function in Egypt and beyond. This is a pivotal role: you’ll be responsible for building a local engineering hub in Cairo while managing a distributed team of in-house and outsourced developers across multiple geographies.

You'll report to the CTO and work closely with Product, Operations, and Commercial leadership to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions that serve tens of thousands of workers—and soon, millions.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.