Payments Backend Engineer at Playtomic

JobFluent; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance stipend

Gympass discounts

Flexible vacation policy

Birthday/Wellness days

Job summary

Playtomic is seeking a Payments Backend Engineer to build robust, scalable payment solutions and APIs. You will integrate gateways, ensure secure processing, and collaborate with product and frontend teams to deliver high-quality features.

Located in Madrid or remote, you will contribute to a fast-paced, multicultural engineering team, using Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, and Kubernetes. Excellent English communication is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with payment gateway integrations and secure transaction processing.
• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and ability to translate complex technical concepts for stakeholders.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain payments APIs and services for robust, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and design teams to deliver features on time.
• Integrate third-party payment gateways and ensure secure, compliant processing.
• Optimize backend performance via profiling, code reviews, and best practices.

Skills

Spring Boot 3

Java 17

MongoDB

MySQL Aurora

Kubernetes

API design

Payment gateways

Secure payments

Backend engineering

Web stack

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Payments Backend Engineer in Madrid or Remote

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Payments team at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable payments solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.

Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations to enhance the overall functionality of the payments services.

Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers and frontend/mobile engineers, to devise innovative solutions.

Collaborate with third-party payment gateways to integrate and optimize secure payment processing, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend

Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling, and implementing best practices and company's standards.

Who you’ll be playing with

You will be part of the engineering team (+50 people) reporting directly to an Engineering Manager, working in the Payments team in daily collaboration with Product and other engineers.

Experience with payment gateway integrations and secure transaction processing is a must.

Proven experience as a Backend Engineer. Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques. In particular, experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, MySQL (aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.

Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.

Strong communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.

Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions within specified timelines.

Located in Madrid or able to travel to Madrid when needed

Excellent spoken and written English is a must

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Proven track record in designing and implementing payment systems or financial platforms.

Experience working with remote and partially remote and multicultural teams.

Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups

What’s in it for you

Social benefits (63 € a month in one of these: health insurance/tickets restaurant), flexible salary in training and kindergarten.

Gympass discounts in several plans that include gyms, personal classes, access to free apps of wellbeing, nutrition etc.

Opportunity to work in a top international team

23 days of vacation + day off on your birthday + 2 days off for Wellness days in August.

1 additional day off per year worked.

1st interview with People Team

2nd Tech assessment & Tech interview

3rd interview with Engineering Managers.

4rd interview with our Product team.

We are world’s largest racket sports App for players and clubs. Our goal is to socialize sports practice: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing.

Since 2017, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization. You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and offices in Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico.