Job Overview
Principal Engineer – Real-Time Payment Systems
📍 Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait (Fully Remote)
💼 Employment Type: Permanent
🖥 Division: Core Payment Engineering
Build the Infrastructure Behind Every Transaction
A rapidly growing fintech organization is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer – Real-Time Payment Systems to architect and optimize high-performance payment platforms capable of processing millions of secure transactions with exceptional speed, scalability, and resilience.
This role is designed for engineering leaders passionate about creating mission-critical financial infrastructure that powers the future of digital commerce.
Core Responsibilities
- Architect real-time payment processing platforms.
- Design scalable transaction routing systems.
- Optimize payment gateway performance.
- Build highly available distributed systems.
- Lead modernization of payment infrastructure.
- Implement secure API integration strategies.
- Enhance system observability and monitoring.
- Drive automation across deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and product teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical architects.
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology.
- Minimum 10 years of enterprise software engineering experience.
- Proven expertise in payment systems or financial platforms.
- Strong background in cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
- Excellent technical leadership and problem-solving skills.
Technology Environment
- Java
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Apache Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Rewards & Benefits
- Premium international remuneration
- Annual engineering excellence bonus
- Fully remote work environment
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Annual certification and training allowance
- International technology conference sponsorship
- Leadership development programmes
- Paid annual vacation
- Long-term career progression within a high-growth Gulf fintech organization
Don’t miss the chance to make a difference in the fintech and FX industry!
Apply now by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below.
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