5 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction, architecture, standards and engineering best practices for Masabi’s payments platform.
- Design and deliver scalable, secure, resilient and cost-effective payment solutions.
- Guide teams evolving toward modern distributed and microservices-based architecture while balancing delivery and long-term platform health.
- Contribute hands-on where needed through architecture reviews, design discussions and targeted technical delivery.
- Resolve complex challenges involving scalability, resilience, operational performance and system evolution.
- Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams and influence payment-domain decisions.
- Collaborate with external providers and payment partners on integrations, technical alignment and problem-solving.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps, prioritisation, scoping, documentation, technical forums and engineering standards.
Requirements
- Strong experience with payment systems, including PSPs, gateways, EMV, contactless EMV and acquirers.
- Good understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycles and system design considerations.
- Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Experience operating at Principal or Staff level and shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains.
- Strong technical judgement, communication skills and ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural outcomes.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, explain complex problems clearly and engage technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and modern infrastructure practices.
- Experience making scalability, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs and contributing to architecture patterns or platform direction.
- Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems and their production architecture implications.
- Preferred experience includes transit or fare-payment systems, tap-to-ride systems, Visa, Mastercard, Interac and complex multi-service or event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with Kotlin, Java, DynamoDB, MySQL, Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
Benefits
- Fully remote work anywhere in the UK, with optional hybrid working from the London office.
- 25 days of annual holiday plus the option to buy up to five additional pro-rated days.
- Private AXA healthcare including pre-existing conditions and mental health coverage, plus life insurance and menopause support.
- Choice of workstation and a £200 annual home-office allowance.
- Ability to work from any country in the world for up to three months per year, subject to limitations.
- Pension scheme, enhanced family leave pay and cycle-to-work scheme.
- Training allowance of up to £1,000 per year.
- Regular social gatherings with a monthly employee allowance.
About Masabi
Masabi builds fare-payment and ticketing platforms for public transit agencies, offering mobile ticketing, account-based ticketing, and open payments through its Justride platform. The company sells its software and services to transport authorities and operators, enabling riders to pay via apps, ticket machines, or contactless bank cards. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and serves agencies in North America and Europe.