Principal Engineer Payments

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer - Payments to join Masabi’s Architecture team, with a primary focus on our payments domain. This is a senior role for someone who combines strong technical judgement with deep payments experience. You’ll shape the technical direction of our payments platform while staying close enough to the detail to design, review and support meaningful technical work.

What You Will Do

Shape the technical direction of Masabi’s payments platform, contributing to architecture, standards and engineering best practices. Design and deliver scalable, secure, resilient and cost-effective payment solutions aligned with Masabi’s platform direction.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong experience working on payment systems, including integrations with PSPs, gateways or acquirers. Good understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycles and system design considerations. Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures.

Requirements

• Strong experience working on payment systems, including integrations with PSPs, gateways or acquirers
• Good understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycles and system design considerations
• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Strong judgement and the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural outcomes
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and turning complex problems into clear, practical technical approaches
• Clear and thoughtful communicator, able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable being hands-on where needed, while maintaining a focus on system-level impact
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices
• Experience working on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully
• Experience contributing to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year plus the Christmas Shutdown (another 3-4 days)
• Premium medical care via Regina Maria
• Mental health support
• Menopause support
• Regular social gatherings with a monthly allowance for each employee
• Up to €1000 training budget per year
• €200 to spend on your home office
• Choice of workstation
• Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world

Originally posted on Himalayas