Staff Backend Architect, Payments Platform Lead

Paymentology; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and domains in Dublin. You will shape strategy, guide architectural decisions, and build reliable, scalable systems powering real-time payment transactions.

As an individual contributor with organisation-wide influence, you’ll mentor senior engineers, establish standards, and partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to influence roadmaps and delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating highly available distributed backend systems.
• Proven success leading technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, relational databases, and cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, observability, and automated testing.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and mentor experienced engineers.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Java experience is highly valued; payments/fintech exposure is beneficial but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy across engineering domains and cross-team initiatives.
• Shape scalable architectures that support long-term product and business goals.
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear, practical solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices across teams.
• Identify and mitigate long-term risks around reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to influence roadmaps and delivery.
• Mentor senior engineers and strengthen technical leadership across the organisation.
• Lead initiatives that improve engineering quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Contribute hands-on to critical systems where your expertise delivers the greatest impact.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Containerisation

Observability

Automated testing

Relational databases

APIs

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and domains in Dublin. You will shape strategy, guide architectural decisions, and build reliable, scalable systems powering real-time payment transactions.

As an individual contributor with organisation-wide influence, you’ll mentor senior engineers, establish standards, and partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to influence roadmaps and delivery.