Senior Fintech Platform Architect: Scale Payments

Beyond ONE; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Beyond ONE is leading the charge in reshaping digital finance ecosystems with a fintech-focused architecture team based in Dubai. We design scalable backend systems for a global user base, emphasizing low latency, security, and reliability in financial services.

The candidate will mentor engineers, drive architectural standards, and collaborate with product and DevOps to deliver robust fintech platforms. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic architectural oversight.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with an architectural or staff engineer role.
• Fintech platform experience or scalable digital payments exposure is highly desirable.
• Strong proficiency in Java and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and backend design of mission-critical Fintech platforms ensuring systems are performant, scalable and secure.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to align architectural goals with business needs.
• Manage adoption of backend best practices, code quality standards, and design patterns across multiple squads.
• Drive technology selection, architectural reviews, and refactoring strategies for core financial services backend.
• Mentor backend engineers and conduct architectural workshops to upskill teams in scalable design principles.
• Own key architectural decisions in domains such as payments, risk scoring, onboarding and ledger systems.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

UML

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Beyond ONE is leading the charge in reshaping digital finance ecosystems with a fintech-focused architecture team based in Dubai. We design scalable backend systems for a global user base, emphasizing low latency, security, and reliability in financial services.

The candidate will mentor engineers, drive architectural standards, and collaborate with product and DevOps to deliver robust fintech platforms. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic architectural oversight.