Job Overview
Lead Systems Engineer – Large-Scale Digital Payments Platforms & Transaction Resilience (Saudi Arabia)
Global Context
Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving fintech environment demands payment infrastructures capable of operating at national and cross-border scale, processing high transaction volumes with uncompromising resilience, observability, and regulatory accountability. This role is positioned at the engineering core of mission-critical financial transaction systems.
Role Mandate
The Lead Systems Engineer will assume responsibility for engineering and evolving real-time digital payment platforms, focusing on performance optimization, fault tolerance, and architectural durability. The role requires deep system-level thinking, delivered within a fully remote, globally distributed engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
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Engineer high-throughput payment processing systems supporting real-time authorization, clearing, and settlement.
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Design resilient architectures emphasizing redundancy, graceful degradation, and rapid recovery.
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Build transaction orchestration layers integrating routing logic, reconciliation, and exception handling.
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Implement observability frameworks enabling real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and audit traceability.
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Collaborate with compliance and governance specialists to embed regulatory controls into core system design.
Professional Profile
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10+ years engineering large-scale fintech, payments, or transaction-intensive platforms.
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Advanced expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-availability design.
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Experience operating systems under strict regulatory and operational requirements.
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Strong leadership capability within globally distributed engineering teams.
Engagement Model
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Fully remote with strategic alignment to Saudi financial sector operations.
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Long-term engineering leadership role with platform-wide responsibility.
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