Remote Staff Software Architect, Payments Platform

Paymentology; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Paymentology Ltd. is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive technical strategy across significant engineering domains. You will shape architectures, evaluate trade-offs and lead cross-team initiatives in a global, distributed team.

You will mentor senior engineers, raise the quality bar, and contribute hands-on where needed to advance critical systems while ensuring reliability and scalability in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating complex backend or distributed systems.
• Led significant technical initiatives involving multiple teams or systems.
• Strong architectural judgement balancing delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Experience with microservices, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Familiar with cloud environments, preferably AWS, and containerization concepts.
• Proficient in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and observability practices.
• Strong automated testing mindset and software quality focus.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers across levels.
• Professional fluency in English; able to communicate complex topics clearly.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy for a significant engineering domain or cross-team initiative.
• Translate ambiguous problems into a clear technical direction and delivery approach.
• Shape architectures that support long-term product and business needs.
• Evaluate complex trade-offs and communicate evidence-based recommendations.
• Create architectural patterns and engineering standards for adoption across teams.
• Identify and mitigate long-term risks related to reliability and scalability.
• Ensure dependencies and technical decisions are understood across teams.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations to inform roadmaps and delivery decisions.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop their leadership and design capabilities.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve engineering capability.
• Raise testing, observability, code quality and incident readiness standards.
• Contribute hands-on to critical systems when most effective.
• Help teams navigate complex situations with clarity and accountability.

Skills

Backend design

Leading multi-team initiatives

Architectural judgement

Microservices & APIs

Event-driven architectures

Cloud environments (AWS)

CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

Automated testing

Mentoring engineers

English fluency

Tools

Java

Job description

Paymentology Ltd. is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive technical strategy across significant engineering domains. You will shape architectures, evaluate trade-offs and lead cross-team initiatives in a global, distributed team.

You will mentor senior engineers, raise the quality bar, and contribute hands-on where needed to advance critical systems while ensuring reliability and scalability in a cloud-native environment.