Job Description

About Tap

Tap Payments is revolutionizing online payments across the MENA region by connecting businesses with simple, unified payment experiences. We need exceptional talent to help us on this journey.

The Technology Team

Our Technology team builds reliable, secure, and easy-to-use payment experiences for businesses across the region. As a Plugins Expert, you will help merchants integrate Tap Payments with leading e-commerce platforms by supporting plugin development, testing, documentation, and technical troubleshooting.

As a Tapster you will:

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize Tap Payments plugins and integrations for e-commerce platforms.

• Build and maintain PHP-based payment gateway plugins, ensuring they are secure, scalable, reliable, and easy for merchants to implement.

• Develop and maintain Shopify integrations/apps and ensure compatibility with Shopify APIs and platform updates.

• Integrate Tap Payments APIs, SDKs, webhooks, and payment flows into e-commerce platforms.

• Implement and support key payment flows including authorization, capture, refunds, voids, payment status updates, and asynchronous webhook notifications.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical integration issues raised by merchants, partners, and internal teams.

• Work closely with Backend Engineering, Product, QA, Payment Operations, and Partner teams to deliver robust payment integrations.

• Ensure plugins follow secure coding practices and payment industry standards.

• Develop automated tests and ensure high-quality releases across supported platforms.

• Maintain compatibility with new versions and changes across e-commerce platforms.

• Improve the developer and merchant integration experience through better documentation, tooling, and technical solutions.

• Monitor and improve plugin performance, reliability, and overall integration quality.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Stay up to date with developments in e-commerce platforms, payment technologies, APIs, and developer ecosystems.

What you will bring to the party:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.

• Mandatory experience working with a payment gateway, PSP, fintech, acquiring, or payment technology provider.

• Strong hands-on experience with PHP.

• Mandatory hands-on experience developing for Shopify, including Shopify APIs, apps/integrations, and webhooks.

• Strong understanding of payment gateway integrations and online payment flows.

• Solid experience working with REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, authentication, and third-party integrations.

• Experience developing and maintaining e-commerce plugins, extensions, modules, or apps.

• Strong knowledge of Git and software development best practices.

• Experience troubleshooting production integrations and resolving complex technical issues.

• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases.

• Strong understanding of HTTP and API-based architectures.

• Knowledge of payment concepts such as authorization, capture, refunds, tokenization, recurring payments, 3DS, and webhooks.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced fintech environment.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

Are you ready to shape the future of payments in MENA?