Remote Staff Software Engineer - Cloud-Native Payments

Paymentology; Województwo mazowieckie; Remote; PLN 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global collaboration

Principal Engineer career path

Job summary

Paymentology is building a new strategic card issuing platform and seeks a Staff Engineer to lead architectural direction across teams. You will translate complex problems into clear technical plans and mentor engineers as they move towards Java 21 and cloud-native patterns.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations worldwide, shaping scalable, reliable systems in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating complex backend or distributed systems.
• A record of leading significant technical initiatives involving multiple teams or systems.
• The ability to establish technical direction without relying on formal authority.
• Strong architectural judgement and the ability to balance immediate delivery with longer-term sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy for a significant engineering domain or cross-team initiative.
• Shape architectures that support Paymentology’s long-term product and business needs.
• Mentor senior engineers and help them develop their technical leadership, decision-making and system-design capabilities.
• Lead working groups and cross-team initiatives that improve Paymentology’s wider engineering capability.
• Raise the standard of testing, observability, code quality, incident response and operational readiness.

Skills

Backend architecture

Java

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Leadership

Mentoring

Job description

Paymentology is building a new strategic card issuing platform and seeks a Staff Engineer to lead architectural direction across teams. You will translate complex problems into clear technical plans and mentor engineers as they move towards Java 21 and cloud-native patterns.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations worldwide, shaping scalable, reliable systems in a fast-growing fintech environment.