Platform Architect

2 days ago


Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Paynance Full time

Company Description

Paynance is a dynamically growing fintech company that develops banking and payment solutions for six Central European countries.

Role Description

Paynance offer a full-time hybrid role for a Platform Architect who will play a key role in the further development of our infrastructure and architecture. The position is responsible for designing the entire technology stack, implementing cloud-native solutions, and developing an on-premise migration strategy.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE

  • 3+ years of Kubernetes operation and architecture design experience

  • Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

  • Knowledge of GitOps principles and tools (ArgoCD, Flux)

  • High-level knowledge of container technologies (Docker)

  • Design and optimization of relational databases (PostgreSQL)

  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)

  • Knowledge of monitoring and logging systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)

Advantages

  • Knowledge of message broker systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

  • Experience with caching solutions (Redis)

- Experience with service mesh (Linkerd, Istio) implementation

- API Gateway (Kong, Ambassador) configuration

- microservice development experience

- Knowledge of Laravel/PHP

- On-premise infrastructure design experience

- Knowledge of the fintech or payment sector

- Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Tempo, Jaeger)

Why join us?

  • You believe in our mission
    — to bring various digital payment services to as many places as possible, thereby providing easier and more convenient shopping experiences.
  • You'll shape the foundation
    — join the core engineering team defining our architecture, tech stack, and product direction from day one.
  • You thrive in ownership
    — your decisions and craftsmanship will directly influence the experience of millions of shoppers and the opportunities available to thousands of merchants.
  • You want to grow fast
    — work directly with the founders and help define an exceptional engineering culture.

What we'll build

  • One of the most advanced payment app
    — our softpos has many innovations that have been a challenge for our engineers, and we are happy to share them.
  • World's 5th largest banking interface
    — working with one of the best financial technology platform in the world that combines payments, data, and financial services.
  • A wide and colorful repertoire of end-point solutions —
    You can develop the latest payment endpoints for both physical and web-based applications up close, and be part of the current payment revolution.
  • Robust backend infrastructure
    — scalable, secure services supporting reseller and white label partners, low-latency APIs, and real-time transactions.

Tech stack

| Version management, CI/CD | Azure DevOps, ArgoCD

| Containerization    | Docker, Kubernetes

| Messaging      | Apache Kafka

| Cache | Redis

| Database      | PostgreSQL

| Backend       | (microservices), Laravel

| Service Mesh     | Linkerd

| API Gateway     | Kong

| Monitoring      | Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana

| Mobile | React Native, Flutter

Where we are now

  • More than a year ago in the central European market
    — with nearly 10 million transactions behind us.
  • Preparing for new country openings
    — expansion towards Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Croatia.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity
    — own a real stake in Paynance's mission and long-term success.
  • Hybrid work
    with flexibility and trust.
  • Flexible schedule
  • we care about impact and not hours


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