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Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural direction across the Client Lifecycle vertical.
- Design distributed, event-driven, cloud-native systems and make trade-offs involving resilience, scalability, security, latency, and operability.
- Translate strategic and regulatory requirements into target architectures, solution designs, and incremental delivery plans.
- Prototype complex solutions, contribute production-quality code, and unblock teams on difficult technical problems.
- Own architecture reviews, design assurance, production readiness, technical risk identification, and cross-team technical quality.
- Guide data modelling, access patterns, data quality, lineage, retention, performance, and operational versus analytical data decisions.
- Query and analyze data using SQL and appropriate query models across platforms such as Databricks, Salesforce, DynamoDB, and warehouse or reporting systems.
- Champion AWS-native practices covering serverless, messaging, storage, compute, identity, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Guide teams building secure APIs, backend services, and integrations for business-critical regulated customer journeys.
- Review code and technical proposals, mentor engineers and technical leaders, and raise engineering standards across teams.
- Investigate production issues and systemic performance or reliability concerns and drive root-cause analysis and durable improvements.
- Communicate technical strategy, risks, trade-offs, and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience and a record of senior technical leadership across complex, business-critical systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Expert experience designing and evolving distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures in production.
- Strong hands-on AWS and cloud-native architecture experience, including serverless services and infrastructure as code; CloudFormation experience is highly desirable.
- Strong experience building backend applications and services with C# and modern .NET.
- Strong knowledge of asynchronous messaging and event streaming, including EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent technologies.
- Exceptional knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, SQL, query optimization, indexing, transactions, and data-access patterns.
- Practical experience with Databricks, Salesforce SOQL, DynamoDB, Tableau, data pipelines, data warehouses, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience designing reusable APIs, services, and integrations with emphasis on secure development, observability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, application security, and risk-aware design in regulated environments.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across multiple teams.
- Experience in financial services, payments, banking, private markets, or another regulated industry is preferred.
- Experience with KYC, onboarding, account lifecycle management, CRM, operations, compliance workflows, Salesforce integrations, Redis, Kubernetes, CI/CD practices, and modern software delivery tooling is preferred.
Benefits
- Assigned workspace in the London office, company-issued equipment, and formal hands-on training.
- 4x life insurance and a pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution.
- Private healthcare.
- 25 days of annual leave with holiday buy/sell options.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and free rewards and discounts through Gratitudes.
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About Corpay
Corpay builds business payments and expense management software and services for companies, including AP automation, virtual and commercial cards, cross-border payments, and FX risk management. The Atlanta‑headquartered public company (NYSE: CPAY) sells SaaS and transaction-based payment solutions that integrate with ERPs such as NetSuite, SAP, Sage Intacct, and Microsoft Dynamics, serving customers globally across industries from manufacturing and transportation to healthcare and government.