Payoneer

Architect - Backend

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2 months ago
Gurgaon, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead cloud migration, modernization, and re-architecture of legacy enterprise platforms.
  • Define target architectures, modernization patterns, and execution plans across engineering teams.
  • Design and implement scalable, secure, automated, cloud-native solutions and infrastructure platforms.
  • Modernize databases and applications and establish cloud maturity across the organization.
  • Build and operate modern DevOps and platform engineering practices, including containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Identify high-value AI use cases, enable governed AI adoption, and build agentic systems with evaluation, observability, and safety controls.
  • Collaborate with architecture, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to unblock critical initiatives.
  • Drive high availability, scalability, security, compliance, and disaster recovery for global-scale workloads.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
  • Strong experience designing compute, storage, networking, security, and secure cloud architectures.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience with cloud networking, VPC design, private connectivity, and secure architectures.
  • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Aurora.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar.
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes, preferably EKS.
  • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and applying modern DevOps practices.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems into microservices or cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience designing high-availability, scalable, and disaster-recovery solutions.
  • Experience in enterprise environments with strong security and compliance requirements.
  • Bachelor of Science in computer science or equivalent.
  • Strong technical leadership, cross-team influence, ownership, and ability to operate in complex and ambiguous environments.
  • Practical experience selecting and delivering AI-enabled solutions, including agentic systems, evaluation, observability, and governance.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, full-time position based in Gurgaon, India.
  • Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLTerraform

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About Payoneer

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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