Overview

Payments Architect – Issuing platform

Fully remote

Our client is a young, fast-growing payments start up that was built to be different. They are seeking a Payments Architect to focus on leading technology with a customer centric mindset to disrupt the payment infrastructure across the MENA region.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for leading the software architecture, design, and development on our platform.
• We are designing, developing, and deploying a next generation payments platform in the MENA region.
• You will have demonstrated leadership and success in complex, secure, high-availability, and high-volume environments.
• You will also wear multiple hats and will be expected to eventually build a team under you. You will be expected to get your hands dirty yet also immediately start bringing on members to join.
• The focus of the job will be working on back-end infrastructure while dealing with extensive APIs yet also interacting with the clients.
• Security is the foundation of our business and must be at the heart of your mindset.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of IT Architecture experience and hands on software development experience delivering large scale projects in the payments domain
• Good team management capabilities to lead dev teams through product life cycle
• Experience in designing, maintaining high performance & high volume OLTP systems
• Experienced in topics like shared memory, queues, socket programming, multitasking & multi threading, etc.
• Experience designing and developing as per secure coding standards, PCI, PADSS
• Expertise with ISO 8583 protocol and specifications
• Familiar with payment scheme (Visa, Mastercard) switches, interfaces and delivering periodical scheme mandates
• Experience with payment processing stacks, specifically on issuing side
• Experience with Debit and Credit systems, tokenisation and 3DS
• Proficiency in Java, Node.js, Spring Framework, and MySQL
• Experience working on, designing, and developing open APIs
• Experience in designing cloud ready applications, containers and Kubernetes, working with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiar with HSM devices (ie Atalla or Thales)