Head of Engineering
First seen by Alion on Sep 12, 2026. Dopay scores B on the Alion truth index.
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 theCB Insights Fintech 100 list.
About the Role
Were looking for a seasoned and entrepreneurial Head of Engineering to lead dopays growing engineering function in Egypt and beyond. This is a pivotal role: youll be responsible for building a local engineering hub in Cairo while managing a distributed team of inhouse and outsourced developers across multiple geographies.
Youll report to the CTO and work closely with Product Operations and Commercial leadership to deliver highquality secure and scalable solutions that serve tens of thousands of workersand soon millions.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a worldclass engineering team based in Egypt
- Oversee a hybrid team of inhouse contract and outsourced developers globally
- Deliver on dopays 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 crossfunctionally 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
- Handson experience delivering secure highavailability 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 missiondriven 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 highcaliber 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 youre a strategic and headson engineering leader looking for your next challenge in a fastgrowing fintech company wed love to hear from you! Apply now to join dopay as ourHead of Engineering.
Required Experience:
Director