Senior Backend Engineer (Wallets & Payments)

Role Overview

Senior Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities Backend Platform Development

• Design and build
• secure, scalable backend services
• for digital wallet and payment systems.
• Develop
• microservices-based architecture
• supporting high-volume financial transactions.
• Build and maintain
• ledger systems
• ensuring transaction accuracy and reconciliation.

Wallet & Financial Infrastructure

• Implement
• wallet services, balance tracking, and transaction processing logic
• .
• Design systems for
• double-entry ledger accounting, settlement flows, and reconciliation pipelines
• .
• Ensure compliance with
• fintech best practices for financial transaction integrity
• .

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Develop backend services using
• .NET and Azure Cloud services
• .
• Build scalable APIs and services deployed through
• containerized or microservice environments
• .
• Optimize systems for
• performance, reliability, and fault tolerance
• .

Fintech System Architecture

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design
• financial product architecture
• .
• Implement integrations with
• payment gateways, banking APIs, and financial partners
• .
• Ensure systems align with
• regional fintech regulatory requirements
• , particularly within the
• UAE ecosystem
• .

Required Experience Mandatory Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with
• .NET / C#
• Experience building systems on

Microsoft Azure Cloud

• Proven experience designing
• microservices-based architectures
• Prior experience working in
• fintech products
• Direct experience building
• digital wallets or payment systems
• Experience working with
• ledger systems or transaction accounting models
• Strong understanding of
• financial data integrity, reconciliation, and transactional systems

Preferred Experience

• Experience with
• payments infrastructure or PayFac systems
• Experience integrating
• banking APIs, card networks, or payment gateways
• Experience with
• high-availability financial systems
• Exposure to
• compliance-driven fintech architecture
• Previous experience in
• startup or high-growth fintech environments

Tech Stack

• Backend:
• .NET / C#
• Cloud:

Microsoft Azure

• Architecture:

Microservices

• Financial Systems:
• Wallet infrastructure, ledger systems, payments processing
• APIs:
• RESTful services, financial integrations

What We Are Looking For

• A backend engineer who thinks like a
• financial systems architect
• .
• Someone comfortable designing
• mission-critical transaction systems
• .
• A builder who understands that
• fintech infrastructure must be precise, secure, and compliant
• .
• This role will form part of the
• core engineering team responsible for building the wallet and payments infrastructure
• for AHOY Money.