1 month ago
Gurgaon, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical and architectural vision for large-scale backend systems and distributed platforms.
- Design and build scalable, resilient, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for Payoneer’s global financial infrastructure.
- Lead architectural decisions, engineering standards, technical strategy, and initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains.
- Improve backend platforms across scalability, reliability, observability, performance, security, testing, operational readiness, and developer productivity.
- Identify and adopt valuable uses of LLMs, AI agents, automation, agentic architectures, and MCP in engineering workflows and systems.
- Partner with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, data, and other functions to address systemic technical challenges and technical debt.
- Mentor engineering leads, senior engineers, architects, and emerging technical leaders through architecture reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Communicate complex technical concepts and influence technical and product decisions across geographically distributed teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platforms.
- Strong expertise in backend engineering, system architecture, APIs, microservices, data-intensive systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep understanding of consistency, availability, fault tolerance, concurrency, distributed transactions, messaging, event-driven architectures, and scalability.
- Proven experience leading architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineering teams or complex technology domains.
- Experience operating systems at significant scale with demanding availability, performance, security, and reliability requirements.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, observability, production operations, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience with AI/LLM technologies and demonstrated interest in AI-first engineering systems and workflows.
- Familiarity with AI agents, MCP, tool calling, agentic workflows, or similar emerging AI technologies is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, product judgment, and cross-organizational influence skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and technical leaders.
- Comfort working in a globally distributed, cross-functional engineering environment.
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About Payoneer
Payoneer builds a global B2B payments platform for SMBs, marketplaces, and freelancers to send, receive, and manage cross-border funds. Products include multi-currency accounts, mass payouts, and global bank transfers, monetized via transaction and FX fees. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, it operates in 190+ countries and is a public company listed on NASDAQ.