Advanced Solution Engineer

Keka Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Seer Solutions in Dubai, UAE is seeking an Advanced Solution Engineer to build and grow the Payments Product Team on-site. You will lead onboarding, document flows, and design scalable payment systems with secure architectures and PCI DSS alignment.

Collaborating with vendor, security, infrastructure, and PMO teams, you will implement microservices, ISO 8583 channels, and gateway connections, while mentoring engineers and driving internal product ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related field.
• 7–10 years software development experience.
• 3–5 years in payment systems/fintech or financial services.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, scalable payment services and transaction processing.
• Lead payment channel integrations (ISO 8583, HTTP/REST, gateways).
• Document workflows, routing, settlement, reconciliation.
• Ensure PCI DSS compliance and secure coding practices.
• Mentor engineers and drive internal product ownership.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical mindset

Troubleshooting

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Node.js

Java

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

ISO 8583

PCI DSS

HSM integration

Kafka / RabbitMQ

Job description

Seer Solutions provides advanced and comprehensive digital solutions for financial institutions, enabling them to offer their products in a fast, easy, convenient, and cost-effective manner. By digitalizing processes, Seer Solutions helps financial partners adapt to the rapidly changing industry landscape. With strong research and development capabilities, the company ensures that its partners remain competitive. Seer Solution's dedicated team is committed to exceeding the expectations of its financial institution partners.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for an Advanced Solution Engineer position with the below requirement and qualification. The position is based in Dubai, JLT.

Advanced Solution Engineer

The Advanced Solution Engineer plays a critical role in establishing and growing the internal Payments Product Team to progressively shadow and transition responsibilities from the existing vendor team. The role is responsible for leading technical onboarding, reverse engineering product flows, understanding payment architecture, and enabling long-term internal ownership of the product lifecycle.

The candidate is expected to possess strong experience in fintech/payment systems, secure transaction processing, payment switch integrations, and enterprise-grade backend engineering. This role requires close collaboration with vendor teams, business stakeholders, infrastructure, security, and PMO teams to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available payment systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA:

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable payment services and transaction processing systems.
• Lead the design, development, and optimization of payment channel integrations including ISO 8583 socket channels, HTTP/REST APIs, and payment gateway connections with acquiring banks and settlement institutions
• Work closely with vendor teams to understand and document existing payment workflows, transaction routing, settlement processes, reconciliation flows, and operational procedures.
• Implement secure transaction processing mechanisms including encryption (3DES, AES), message signing, DUKPT key management, tokenization, HSM integrations, and certificate/token-based authentication.
• Design scalable microservices and backend APIs to support payment applications, POS/Terminal Management, vPOS, and Pay-by-Link capabilities.
• Improve system reliability, transaction throughput, fault tolerance, and payment success rates.
• Participate in architecture discussions for high-availability systems, disaster recovery, and production scalability.
• Establish secure coding practices and ensure alignment with PCI DSS and enterprise security standards.

CONTROL OF TASKS:

• Review and validate technical deliverables, APIs, transaction flows, and system architecture documentation.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for transaction failures, timeout issues, integration bottlenecks, and production incidents.
• Ensure all deliverables comply with coding standards, security controls, and operational best practices.
• Coordinate with PMO, QA, Security, Infrastructure, and UAT teams during deployment, testing, and release cycles.
• Monitor production system health, transaction integrity, and SLA compliance.

STRATEGIC & LEADERSHIP TASKS:

• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers within the Payments Product Team.
• Define technical learning roadmaps and knowledge transfer objectives for long-term vendor independence.
• Contribute to technical strategy, scalability planning, and modernization initiatives.
• Participate in roadmap planning, technical estimation, and architecture governance discussions.
• Support management in building long-term internal product ownership strategy and reducing vendor dependency
• Promote engineering best practices including clean architecture, SOLID principles, observability, and CI/CD automation.

MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEES:

• Lead and coordinate the activities of internal product engineering resources across development and support functions.
• Assign technical tasks, learning objectives, and documentation responsibilities.
• Support continuous learning and domain understanding within the payments ecosystem.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between internal teams and vendor resources.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 7 - 10 years of software development experience
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of hands-on experience in payment systems, fintech platforms, or financial services

Core Technical Skills

• Expert-level proficiency in Node.js and Java (JDK 8+) with microservices architecture
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures
• Deep experience with ISO 8583 message processing and payment switch integration
• Proven experience integrating third party payment gateways and acquiring banks
• Strong knowledge of POS/Terminal Management Systems and transaction lifecycle management
• Hands-on experience with HSM integration, DUKPT, key injection, and cryptographic operations
• Understanding of tokenization, vPOS, Pay by Link, and secure payment methods
• Working knowledge of PCI DSS requirements, secure coding practices, and encryption standards (3DES, AES, RSA)

Databases & Messaging:

• Hands-on experience with SQL databases (MSSQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (Redis, Firebase)
• Strong SQL skills including query optimization and transaction management
• Hands-on experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ) for transaction processing

Infrastructure & DevOps:

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment switch platforms (IRIS, Postilion, Base24, or similar)
• Knowledge of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, UnionPay, or local scheme (1LINK, mada) certifications and integration
• Familiarity with EMV standards, contactless payments, and card-present transactions
• Experience with fraud detection systems and transaction monitoring
• PCI DSS, EMV, or ISO 20022 certifications are highly valued

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Strong analytical mindset with ability to understand complex payment ecosystems and reverse-engineer legacy systems
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience mentoring junior engineers and managing cross-functional technical initiatives
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in high-pressure, production-critical environments with strict SLA requirements
• Strong ownership mentality focused on long-term product sustainability and reducing technical debt
• Effective communication skills with ability to coordinate between technical teams, business stakeholders, and vendor partners
• Experience in knowledge transfer programs and building internal technical capabilities from vendor-managed systems