Job description

Rapyd is a global fintech platform unifying payments, payouts, and fintech services worldwide, with offices including Dubai, and is seeking a Software Developer – Full-Stack (Backend Focus) within the Wallet & Disbursements team. The role is responsible for designing and building scalable APIs and backend services critical to Rapyd’s digital wallet infrastructure, ensuring integrity, reliability, and security of financial operations across a global platform. The developer will build robust backend APIs for transaction processing, disbursements, and wallet services, ensure data integrity and transactional consistency across distributed systems and microservices architecture, and maintain backend infrastructure powering financial workflows at scale. The position requires strong proficiency in Node.js and MySQL, including schema design and performance tuning, and strong knowledge of RESTful API design in high-throughput environments. Responsibilities include writing comprehensive unit testing and integration testing cases, integrating with external banking systems and payment gateways, supporting frontend development using React as needed, participating in architectural discussions and design reviews, contributing within agile development processes, and monitoring and troubleshooting production systems to ensure uptime and reliability. The role values experience with digital wallets, financial systems, event-driven architecture such as Kafka and AWS EventBridge, cloud-native services including AWS, containerization using Docker, and CI/CD pipelines, along with awareness of security, compliance, and reconciliation in financial platforms.