Technical Product Manager — Core Payments

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our Core Payments squad working alongside our Senior PM to build and scale the engine that moves money across the Yassir platform. This is a hands-on technical role at the heart of our financial infrastructure.

Core Payments owns the systems every transaction depends on: the payment orchestration flow the switch and PSP integrations and reconciliation and settlement. Every payment on the platform wallet-to-wallet card bill payment interbank transfer passes through the sequence of compliance limit balance and ledger checks that this squad is responsible for. Correctness resilience and traceability are non-negotiable.

You will translate complex payment and ledger requirements into clear specs work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers on the design of transaction flows and own the edge cases retries failures reversals and reconciliation that make the difference between a payment system that works and one that loses money.

A flavour of the problems this squad solves day to day:

• Payment orchestration the ordered sequence of checks (channel policy entitlement limits balance fees sanctions fraud ledger post) that every transaction runs through before money moves.
• Transaction routing across paths: internal wallet-to-wallet ledger posts interbank transfers via the national switch card payments via the scheme and biller / bill-payment flows.
• Failure handling and money safety idempotent retries suspense accounts and preventing ghost payments where an external party is paid but the customer is never debited (or vice versa).
• Switch and PSP integration working with engineers on card authorisation flows PSP failover and the messaging between Yassir and external payment networks.
• Reconciliation and settlement making sure Yassirs ledger matches the external world (billers banks schemes) and that breaks are surfaced and resolved.
• Resilience defining fallback behaviour when a downstream service is slow or down so the payment path degrades safely instead of failing entirely.

• Own a defined area of the Core Payments roadmap working closely with the Senior PM and engineering leads on your squad.
• Write clear thorough technical specifications API contracts transaction flows state transitions error codes and acceptance criteria that engineers can build from without ambiguity.
• Reason rigorously about edge cases: what happens on a timeout a retry a partial failure a crash mid-transaction and specify the correct behaviour for each.
• Collaborate daily with engineers on system design; understand the tradeoffs well enough to challenge and be challenged not just relay requirements.
• Coordinate with adjacent squads Compliance Core Banking and the channel teams whose systems connect into the payment flow.
• Partner with operations and finance on reconciliation settlement and how payment issues are detected and resolved in production.
• Use data to monitor payment success rates latency and failure modes and to prioritise what to fix or build next.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and keep your squad delivering to roadmap and quality goals.

• 35 years of product management experience with meaningful time on technical or infrastructure products (payments fintech ledger banking or a comparable backend / platform domain).
• Genuine technical depth: comfortable with APIs data models and system design discussions; able to read a spec follow a transaction through multiple systems and spot the gaps.
• Strong grasp of how payments or financial transactions work end-to-end authorisation settlement reconciliation and the failure modes in between (or the ability to demonstrate you can learn this fast backed by adjacent experience).
• A track record of writing high-quality technical specs and working closely with engineering teams to ship reliable systems.
• Precision and rigour you care about correctness edge cases and getting the details right because in payments the details are the product.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and build in a fast-moving from-scratch environment.
• Knowledge of modern development practices like agile and scrum.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to make complex technical topics clear to non-technical stakeholders.
• Based in Cairo Egypt (required).
• Fluent English and Arabic; French is an advantage.

• Direct experience with payment systems: card schemes (ISO 8583) interbank messaging (ISO 20022) switches PSPs or gateway integrations.
• Understanding of double-entry ledgers suspense accounts and reconciliation.
• Experience with idempotency distributed-system failure handling or transaction integrity patterns.
• Exposure to compliance-adjacent product work limits sanctions screening AML or fraud.
• A technical engineering or consulting background before product.

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