Job Overview

Senior Fintech Platform Engineer – Autonomous Payment Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Financial Systems

📍 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

🌐 Work Model: Hybrid (Regional Fintech Engineering Hub + Distributed Infrastructure Collaboration)

Strategic Industry Context

The financial industry is entering a new technological era where fintech platforms are expected to process millions of transactions instantly while maintaining exceptional scalability, resilience, and operational intelligence.

Across the Gulf region, financial institutions are aggressively modernizing their infrastructures to support digital banking, embedded finance, AI-driven payments, and real-time transaction ecosystems.

This role is designed for a high-impact fintech engineer capable of building the technological backbone powering next-generation financial ecosystems.

Mission Objective

To architect and optimize enterprise-grade fintech infrastructures supporting:

• Autonomous payment orchestration
• Cloud-native banking platforms
• Real-time transaction processing systems
• Intelligent API ecosystems
• Scalable distributed financial architectures

Primary Responsibilities

1. Fintech Platform Engineering

• Design and develop scalable fintech infrastructures supporting high-volume financial operations
• Build resilient transaction-processing services for payments, transfers, and settlement workflows
• Architect microservices ecosystems optimized for low-latency financial performance

2. Cloud-Native Financial Systems

• Build containerized fintech environments leveraging Kubernetes and distributed cloud infrastructure
• Develop automated deployment pipelines supporting continuous integration and rapid product delivery
• Optimize infrastructure scalability across multi-region financial operations

3. API & Payment Ecosystem Development

• Engineer secure financial APIs connecting digital wallets, banking systems, and payment networks
• Build event-driven transaction orchestration systems supporting real-time financial interactions
• Ensure interoperability across fintech products and external financial ecosystems

4. Infrastructure Reliability & Operational Resilience

• Implement observability, monitoring, and operational analytics systems for financial infrastructure environments
• Design fault-tolerant systems minimizing service interruption during high-volume transaction periods
• Improve backend efficiency, system reliability, and operational automation

5. Cross-Functional Technical Collaboration

• Collaborate with product teams, security engineers, frontend developers, and treasury operations specialists
• Participate in architecture reviews and engineering modernization initiatives
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical governance standards

Technical Requirements

• 5–10 years in fintech engineering, backend systems, or enterprise financial infrastructure development
• Strong expertise in:
  • Java / Go / Node.js / Python
  • Kubernetes & Docker
  • PostgreSQL / MySQL / Redis
  • Kafka / RabbitMQ
  • REST APIs & gRPC
  • AWS / Azure / Google Cloud
• Experience building:
  • Payment systems
  • Banking APIs
  • Digital financial platforms
  • Distributed microservices architectures

Preferred Expertise

• Familiarity with PCI-DSS and fintech security frameworks
• Experience with event streaming and asynchronous systems
• Knowledge of real-time settlement infrastructures
• Understanding of scalable fintech observability systems

Strategic Impact

You will help engineer the intelligent financial infrastructure powering the future of Gulf fintech transformation.

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