About Dayra
Dayra is a YC-backed fintech company building a financial OS powering the business of the new economy. We enable companies of all sizes to access financial services and empower them to offer financing to their unbanked workers and customers through embedded financial solutions. Dayra’s services range from transfers and payroll management to working capital financing, inventory financing, and asset financing. The tech stack is Laravel and uses microservices and orchestrators.
About the role
As a Staff Backend Software Engineer at Dayra, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our financial services platform is robust, scalable, and efficient. Your expertise will be crucial in driving the technical direction of our backend architecture, ensuring seamless integration with our partners, and enhancing the overall performance of our services.
This is a high-level Individual Contributor (IC) position.
While leadership is encouraged at Dayra, this position has engineering at its core. You will be required to peer review and mentor your Backend Engineer colleagues but this is not a management position. We are looking for someone who enjoys being at the heart of complex backend engineering rather than managing a tech team.
Reports to: CTO (Fractional)
Location: Zamalek
Work from office: Monday to Wednesday
Work from home: Sunday and Thursday
Job Responsibilities
Architect and Scale: design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using PHP Laravel in a microservices architecture.
Code Excellence: write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while performing code reviews to ensure quality across the board.
Mentor peer engineers on best practices, peer program challenging tasks with them, and assist in identifying their learning needs.
Investigate and Compliment technical requirements from Product Management to make sure requirements are clear, consistent, and understandable for peers.
Troubleshoot technical issues, potential outages, and bugs as they arise. Resolve them permanently with scalable decisions.
Security and Compliance: implement secure coding practices and architecture. Ensure full technical compliance with regulatory requirements for deployment on the cloud and on-soil at local data centers.
Contribute to DevOps practices to improve system reliability and performance.
Optimize Performance: Identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to ensure high system availability and performance.
Who we’re looking for
Experience: At least 7 years of experience in backend development with at least 2 years in a senior engineering role.
Technical Expertise:
Strong experience with Laravel and PHP
Deep understanding of microservices architecture and service orchestration.
Proficiency in relational databases (we use MySQL).
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools.
Experience with messaging systems (we use AWS SQS) is a plus.
Proven ability to design and implement robust, scalable solutions for complex systems.
Strong understanding of DevOps practices and tools.
Bonus Points:
Experience in fintech or building financial services platforms.
Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
