Rapyd — the global FinTech platform that has unified payments, payouts, and fintech on one worldwide platform, with offices across Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Hong Kong, and Dubai — is seeking a senior Domain Owner / Expert (Product and Engineering) for their Scale R&D team in Dubai. This role is uniquely designed for an engineer-first professional who combines strong TypeScript/Node.js/React engineering capability with sharp product instinct — able to define the problem, write the spec, build the solution, and own the outcome end to end. Requiring 8+ years of R&D or Product Management experience and 2+ years of LLM and AI workflow expertise, this is one of the most compelling senior FinTech engineering roles available in Dubai in 2026.
About Rapyd — Liberating Global Commerce Through Unified FinTech
Platform: Unified payments, payouts, and fintech — one worldwide platform powering global commerce
Offices: Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Singapore, Iceland, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
Values: Straight talk, quick decisions, strong execution, and elegant solutions — always
Culture: Hard work pays off, careers take off — high trust, high accountability, small senior teams
Team: Scale R&D Dubai — a lean, senior engineering team building the future of global fintech
The Engineering Environment — How Rapyd Works
Spec-Driven Development: Every piece of work starts with a written spec — no code before clarity
AI-Augmented Workflows: AI tooling used aggressively across the team — you’re expected to as well
LLM Orchestration: 2+ years of hands-on LLM and AI workflow experience is a hard requirement
Small Senior Teams: Limited process, high trust, high accountability — no hand-holding
Full Ownership: You define, spec, build, ship, and monitor — the outcome is yours to own
Position Overview
The Domain Owner / Expert (Product and Engineering) at Rapyd Dubai is a rare hybrid role that genuinely blends product thinking and hands-on engineering — not as a description of two separate jobs stitched together, but as a single integrated way of working that Rapyd has built its Scale R&D function around. You will identify high-impact problems using data, partner feedback, and business analysis — then translate business requirements into clear, testable specs before a line of code is written, build the solution yourself, own the quality bar of everything that ships under your name, and monitor and iterate post-launch with the discipline of someone who knows they will be accountable for what happens next.
This is an explicitly engineer-first role — Rapyd is looking for someone with strong technical roots who has developed sharp product instinct and genuine curiosity about the “why” behind the “what.” You are not a product manager who occasionally reviews pull requests, and you are not an engineer who occasionally attends strategy meetings. You are a full-stack technical professional who can hold both dimensions simultaneously — writing specs that are clear enough to build from, and writing code that is production-quality enough to ship without someone else cleaning it up. If that is how you actually work, Rapyd Dubai in 2026 is where you belong.
Why This Role Matters: Rapyd processes payments and manages financial flows for businesses across the globe — and the systems that make that possible need to be designed, owned, and operated by people who understand both why they exist and how they work. As a Domain Owner at Rapyd, you are not working on features in isolation. You are owning a domain — the problem space, the solution, the code quality, the commercial relationship with stakeholders, and the results that follow. That level of end-to-end ownership in a global payments platform that is actively liberating commerce worldwide is what makes this role genuinely extraordinary for the right professional.
What You’ll Do — Key Responsibilities
Problem Identification & Spec-Driven Development
- Identify high-impact problems using data, partner feedback, and business analysis — developing a deeply informed view of your domain’s highest-value improvement opportunities and building the evidence base that justifies prioritisation decisions with commercial and technical rigour
- Translate business requirements into clear, testable specifications before a line of code is written — producing written specs that are precise enough to build from, testable enough to validate against, and clear enough that a non-technical stakeholder can understand what is being built and why
- Own the spec-driven development process end to end — ensuring that every piece of engineering work your domain delivers starts from a well-understood problem, is scoped clearly in writing, and is built against defined success criteria that can be objectively measured post-launch
- Apply commercial-first thinking — using data actively and honestly to challenge your own assumptions, validate or invalidate your problem hypotheses, and ensure that every engineering investment your domain makes is traceable to a genuine business outcome worth the cost of building it
Hands-On Engineering & Solution Building
- Build the solution yourself using TypeScript, Node.js, React, SQL, Redux, and Jest — taking full engineering responsibility for the code, architecture decisions, test coverage, and production readiness of the solutions you define, not just the specification that precedes them
- Design and implement AI workflows, LLM orchestration, and automation tooling that accelerate domain delivery and product capability — applying 2+ years of hands-on LLM experience to build AI-augmented solutions that go beyond experimentation into reliable, production-grade implementation
- Own the quality bar for everything that ships to production under your name — setting and upholding the technical standards that determine what gets deployed, how it performs, and how it behaves when real users and real money are involved in the system
- Apply expertise in tooling, automation, and orchestration of AI workflows as an integral part of your engineering approach — treating AI augmentation not as an optional layer but as a core methodology that amplifies your personal output across the full spec-to-production cycle
Post-Launch Ownership & Domain Stakeholder Management
- Monitor, measure, and iterate post-launch — treating deployment as the beginning of a learning cycle, not the end of a project; feeding quantitative and qualitative learnings from production behaviour into the next spec iteration with discipline and intellectual honesty
- Own the relationship with your domain’s stakeholders — maintaining the commercial relationships, technical trust, and communication quality that allow business stakeholders to rely on you as the definitive technical authority and delivery partner for your domain’s outcomes
- Take accountability for the commercial results that follow from your domain’s engineering decisions — understanding that code quality, architectural choices, and product decisions in a global payments platform have direct commercial consequences that are your responsibility to anticipate, measure, and optimise
- Explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders clearly and without condescension — able to hold the technical complexity of a hard engineering problem in one hand and the business language needed to communicate it in the other, without losing either audience in the process
What Rapyd Is Looking For — Requirements
Core Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in R&D or Product Management — with a demonstrable track record of shipping products or features end to end, from problem identification and spec through engineering, launch, and post-launch iteration, in a professional product engineering environment
- 2+ years of experience with AI tools and LLM orchestration — with hands-on, production-relevant experience applying large language model capabilities and AI workflow automation in real engineering contexts, not just exploratory prototyping
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, SQL, Redux, and Jest — with the code quality, engineering discipline, and full-stack depth to build production-grade solutions independently across these technologies
- Ability to write clear, actionable specs for solutions you are ready to build end-to-end yourself — demonstrating that your specs are grounded in technical reality and represent a genuine commitment to delivery, not a handoff document for someone else to execute
Mindset & Communication
- Commercial-first thinking — consistently using data to challenge your own assumptions, evaluate the business value of proposed solutions, and make engineering investment decisions that are accountable to commercial outcomes rather than just technical elegance
- Strong proficiency in spoken and written English — with excellent communication skills across both technical and business contexts, supporting effective collaboration with Rapyd’s globally distributed teams
- Bonus: Exposure to regulated payments, reconciliation, or large-scale system migrations — directly relevant to the Rapyd platform’s core technical challenges and commercially highest-stakes engineering problems
Why Domain Owner Roles at Rapyd Dubai Are Career-Defining in 2026
The convergence of global payments infrastructure and AI-augmented engineering is one of the most technically demanding and commercially significant spaces in technology today — and Rapyd is operating directly at its centre. As a global unified FinTech platform processing transactions across dozens of countries, currencies, and payment methods, Rapyd’s engineering challenges are both deeply technical and immediately commercial, with every architectural decision carrying real consequences for real businesses and real money flows.
For a senior engineer with the TypeScript depth, LLM experience, spec-writing discipline, and commercial instincts this Domain Owner role demands, Rapyd Dubai’s Scale R&D team offers something genuinely rare: full end-to-end domain ownership, a small senior team with limited process and high trust, aggressive AI augmentation as a cultural expectation, and the global FinTech scale that makes the engineering problems actually hard. In a market where most senior engineering roles constrain their best people with layers of process and narrow scope, Rapyd is built differently — and for the right professional, that difference defines a career.
Who Should Apply?
- Senior Engineer-Product Hybrids: With 8+ years of R&D or product management experience and the genuine engineering depth to write TypeScript, Node.js, React, and SQL in production — not just review other people’s code as a technical product manager
- LLM and AI Workflow Engineers: With 2+ years of hands-on AI orchestration and LLM tooling experience in production contexts — who use AI aggressively as a core part of their engineering workflow and can build AI-augmented solutions that ship reliably
- Spec-Driven FinTech Engineers: Who have built and shipped products in regulated payment environments — familiar with the compliance, reconciliation, and system migration challenges that characterise the most complex and commercially sensitive engineering problems in global FinTech
- End-to-End Technical Owners: Who have repeatedly taken products from problem identification through spec, build, deployment, and post-launch iteration — with the data-driven discipline and commercial accountability that distinguishes genuine domain owners from feature developers
- Dubai-Based or Relocating Senior Engineers: Seeking a full-time senior role at a globally recognised FinTech platform — with the intellectual challenge, commercial stakes, and engineering culture of Rapyd’s Scale R&D team, in one of the world’s most tax-efficient and professionally rewarding cities for senior technology careers
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