Jobs / engineering
Senior Backend Python Engineer (Core Gateway) - Relocation to Cyprus
Payabl · United Kingdom
RelocationIND sponsor
What you will do
The role is about:
We are expanding our engineering capabilities and looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our Core Gateway team. This is a unique, dual-track role where you will play a central part in both the present and future of our infrastructure. You will support, maintain, and extend our existing Perl-based payment gateway ensuring stability and high performance in a live financial production environment while simultaneously leading the architecting and building of our next-generation Python microservices platform.
In this role, you will work in a fast-paced environment where system performance, scalability, and 99.9% reliability are critical to our core transaction flow.
- Location: Cyprus — Onsite (employment contract with relocation support)
- Reporting to: Technical Lead
What you will do
- Dual-Track Maintenance: Support and extend the existing Perl-based payment gateway debugging production issues and adding features while the migration is ongoing.
- Modernization: Design, develop, and maintain modern server-side components in Python, ensuring high performance and scalability.
- Integrations: Integrate third-party APIs and external payment services into both legacy and modern platform layers.
- Agile Collaboration: Maintain clean and strong English communication to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across departments working in agile sprints.
- Product Thinking: Go beyond the "what" and "how" of the code bring a product-focused mindset to understand the business logic and user impact of what you build.
- Engineering Standards: Participate in code reviews, uphold high code quality standards, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
- Infrastructure: Work closely with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments.