Backend Engineer

Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. With deep experience in the payments space and firsthand knowledge of merchants' challenges, we’ve seen how fragmented, complex, and inefficient these systems can become. Now, we are setting a new industry standard for how enterprises around the world manage and optimize payments, with more control, visibility and flexibility than ever before.

Our vision is to reimagine payments from the ground up. We are building a deeply integrated meta layer that spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture. This helps us give leading brands building blocks to craft solutions to most complex operational challenges, tailor seamless customer experiences and grow their business.

We are backed by some of the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT Ventures and General Catalyst, who share our mission to simplify payment complexity globally.

At Payrails, we’re committed to building a team of exceptional people - not just talented, but driven to build, solve, and deliver at the highest level. Excellence isn’t just a value here; it’s a way of working. We believe that great people thrive in environments where there’s trust, clarity, and shared purpose. We work openly and collaboratively, with deep respect for each other’s craft. Everyone is encouraged to understand the bigger picture - what we’re building, why it matters, and what stands in the way. When people have that context, they move faster, take ownership, and make better decisions. We care about creating a culture where people feel inspired to do their best work and a deep sense of responsibility to help us bring our vision to life. Success at Payrails means staying focused on the problems that matter most, and executing with purpose.

Payrails is a true tech company: our product is designed by engineers for engineers. We believe in quality before delivery: our mission is to provide an outstanding Payment experience with a strong eye on automation, resilience, and scalability. Our engineering culture is focused on 3 main pillars:

• We aim for operational excellence

• We promote open communication and quick feedback

• We share knowledge and learn continuously

Our tech team offers you the chance to work alongside a group of highly ambitious and knowledgeable Engineers while being faced with highly complex problems that affect customers on a global scale.

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software in a thriving environment

• Manage individual project priorities and deliverables whilst working in a team who enjoy knowledge sharing sessions

• Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology

• Work within your cross-functional team to uphold the highest technical standards right across the product

• You have 3+ years of backend engineering experience with a proven track record of delivery and end-to-end ownership

• You show vast experience in developing software in large-scale production systems, ideally using Golang

• You have strong software design intuition and clean code principles

• You have hands-on experience with distributed systems and micro-services in production environments

• You are comfortable with SQL-based systems and can troubleshoot data issues independently

• You have good knowledge of observability practices and how to use them to diagnose production issues

• You are an effective communicator, within your team and across functions

• You own a business-oriented mindset - you understand why what you build matters

• Experience in fintech or payments is a plus

• Familiarity with AI tools in your development workflow is a plus

• High impact and high velocity environment with the most talented and ambitious people you will ever work with

• A chance to shape the story of a company and a category from the ground up

• Real ownership. You’ll have the freedom and trust to build, test, and take lead

• A product used by the best brands around the world

• Hybrid working with an office in the heart of Cairo

• Regular team events, activities and off-sites

• Competitive salary

• Premium Family Medical Insurance Coverage

• 27 days of annual paid vacation