Job Overview
Principal Payment Systems Architect
📍 Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
🌍 Work Model: Remote-First | International Engineering Collaboration
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🏛 Industry: Financial Technology | Payment Systems | Enterprise Software | Cloud Platforms | Digital Commerce
Design the Infrastructure Behind Billions of Secure Transactions
A globally expanding fintech enterprise is recruiting an accomplished Principal Payment Systems Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade payment infrastructures that power high-volume digital transactions across retail, commercial, and institutional financial ecosystems.
This position offers the opportunity to influence mission-critical payment technologies while collaborating with world-class engineering teams building resilient, cloud-native financial platforms.
Core Responsibilities
- Architect enterprise payment processing platforms.
- Design scalable microservices and cloud-native financial applications.
- Develop secure API ecosystems supporting digital commerce.
- Optimize transaction performance, resilience, and availability.
- Lead payment platform modernization initiatives.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and product engineering teams.
- Establish architecture governance and engineering standards.
- Mentor senior software engineers and technical architects.
- Evaluate emerging payment technologies for enterprise adoption.
- Ensure operational excellence through continuous optimization.
Professional Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of enterprise software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Java, Go, Kotlin, or C#.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, Terraform, cloud computing, and distributed systems.
- Proven background designing enterprise payment solutions within financial services.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive tax-free salary
- Annual engineering excellence bonus
- Premium healthcare insurance
- Flexible remote-first working model
- Sponsored technical certifications
- Annual global technology conference participation
- Advanced engineering equipment
- Career progression toward Enterprise Solutions Architect, Chief Architect, or Head of Engineering
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