Payment Tech Lead

Job Title: Payment Tech Lead

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Payment Tech Lead to oversee the design development and maintenance of payment systems and financial technology platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in payment gateway integrations backend architecture and system scalability along with proven experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced fintech environments.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end design and development of payment processing systems APIs and integrations with banks PSPs and financial institutions.

Architect and maintain high-performance secure and scalable payment infrastructures (authorization capture settlement reconciliation).

Oversee integration with card schemes wallets and alternative payment methods.

Manage and mentor a team of software engineers (frontend backend DevOps) ensuring best practices and code quality.

Drive architecture decisions related to microservices database design event-driven systems and API management.

Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards (PCI-DSS KYC AML).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Compliance Business QA) to deliver robust payment solutions.

Optimize system reliability latency and transaction throughput through monitoring analytics and continuous improvement.

Evaluate new technologies and tools to enhance performance scalability and reliability.

Handle incident response and root cause analysis for production issues related to payments infrastructure.

Prepare and maintain technical documentation for architecture APIs and deployments.

Qualifications & Skills

Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field.

Experience: 6 years in software development with at least 2 years in a lead or senior engineering role in fintech or payment systems.

Strong proficiency in backend development using Java Go or Python.

Deep understanding of payment flows transaction lifecycles reconciliation and settlement processes.

Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs microservices and event-driven architectures.

Strong background in databases (PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis).

Experience integrating with Visa MasterCard Stripe Adyen or similar gateways.

Knowledge of PCI-DSS compliance tokenization and encryption standards.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure).

Excellent leadership communication and project management skills.

Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.

What We Offer

Competitive salary package.

Opportunity to lead innovative fintech projects with high impact.

Collaborative and technology-driven work environment.

Company transport provided.

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