Principal Engineer (Berlin, Germany)

The Company

Payrails is an innovative technology company with a team that has many years of experience in the payment industry and a real-life understanding of the merchants’ needs. We have seen the complexity firsthand and we have learned from all the challenges we've faced. Now we want to help leading technology companies around the world to accept payments and build financial services with minimal upfront investments.

Our vision at Payrails is to reimagine payments. We do this by removing heavy reliance on Engineering efforts using composable building blocks that put the control firmly in the hands of our customers. We exist to help our customers become more productive and flexible, impacting directly on their ability to grow.

We are joined in our mission by top-tier investors Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT and General Catalyst alongside a great cast of knowledgeable angel investors to enable us to solve the growing complexity of payments.

At Payrails, we are committed to building a team full of the most talented people. Excellence is part of our values and we understand that in order to achieve this, we need to build an environment where skilled people can work openly, collaboratively, and with the utmost trust in one another. We believe people thrive the most when they are fully aware of what the business is trying to achieve, why it is important to the market, and what challenges lie in the way to reaching our goals. In such an environment we believe people can truly excel, grow and enjoy working together. We try hard to be a company where everyone is inspired and feels a sense of responsibility to do the right thing to help us bring our vision to life. Succeeding with us is about finding solutions to the most pressing problems and executing them effectively.

Your Team

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

In our Tech team you will work alongside a group of highly ambitious and knowledgeable Engineers, while being faced with complex problems that affect customers on a global scale.

What You will be doing

Architect, design, and oversee the development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality software in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Set strategic priorities for critical projects, driving impactful deliverables while fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams.

Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, ensuring alignment with long-term product and business goals.

Partner with cross-functional teams to uphold and enhance the highest technical standards across the product lifecycle, providing mentorship and guidance to elevate engineering excellence.

Leverage deep expertise in technologies such as Temporal, AWS, and OpenTelemetry to design scalable, resilient systems and drive observability, ensuring reliable performance and operational excellence across services.

You'll be great for this role if

You have 7+ years of experience developing software for high-traffic systems

You show a vast experience in developing software (Golang preferred, but any one of Java, Kotlin, Scala, C#, .Net, ...) in large-scale production systems

You possess expertise in the development and upkeep of microservices that have high observability and alerting mechanisms, experience with event-driven architecture, and the ability to sustain and uphold best practices for clean code.

You are comfortable with relational databases and capable of analyzing query plans and finding bottlenecks

You have a proven track record working in agile and cross-functional teams with a strong focus on quality and delivery

You strive to join a high performance engineering culture based on strong cooperation and innovation

You are proficient in English

An experience in FinTech or in the payments domain will be a plus

Why You should join Payrails

You can truly create your own path by taking responsibility and implementing your own ideas

You will receive a Learning & Development budget for attending external conferences, trainings or buying books

We offer visa and relocation support to you and your family for a smooth relocation to Cairo

We offer flexible working hours and remote working conditions

You have 27 annual vacation days + 1 day of paid birthday leave for you to have fun and party without any worries!

You will receive top-of-the-market range compensation

We get together regularly for lunch, team events and sports (remotely & in person)

You help us shape the future of Payments <3