Senior Full Stack Payments Engineer (AWS)

Senior Full Stack Payments Engineer (AWS | AI-Native Development)

The Challenge

This is a senior engineering role where you’ll contribute across the full software lifecycle-from architecture and solution design through implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement. You’ll help shape technical direction, mentor fellow engineers, and build resilient cloud-native solutions within a highly regulated banking and payments environment.

The team embraces modern engineering practices, leveraging AWS, GitHub, and AI-assisted software development as part of everyday delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve highly available payment services and platforms.
• Architect scalable microservices for mission-critical payment processing.
• Deliver full-stack solutions across backend services and frontend applications.
• Drive technical decision-making and influence engineering standards.
• Build secure, resilient cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Improve system performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Embed AI-assisted development into engineering workflows to improve quality and delivery speed.

Essential Experience

• Extensive senior-level software engineering experience building large-scale digital products or platforms.
• Strong experience within the payments domain, including:
  • Payment processing
  • Transaction flows
  • PSD2
  • Payment gateways
  • Acquiring
  • Digital wallets
• Proven experience designing and implementing production-grade microservices architectures.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including:
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • CloudFormation
• Strong development experience with:
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS CDK
• Experience working with AI-native or Agentic Engineering practices.
• Daily professional experience using GitHub Copilot (or similar AI coding assistants).
• Experience with GitHub Actions and AI-assisted CI/CD workflows.
• Previous experience within banking, fintech, or regulated financial services.