Lead the payment orchestration strategy for a digital commerce platform, ensuring high availability, PCI compliance, and guiding engineers through integration efforts.
Location: Remote (U.S. overlap preferred)
Type: Contract (Full-Time Preferred)
Domain: Payments / Fintech / eCommerce Infrastructure
We are leading a modernization initiative for a high-growth digital commerce platform focused on payment orchestration, gateway optimization, and API-driven architecture.
This role will architect and lead integration efforts involving:
- Payment gateway orchestration
- Tokenization strategy
- Direct PSP integrations
- Subscription billing logic
- Checkout modernization without disruption
Experience with orchestration platforms such as Gr4vy, Stripe, etc. is highly desirable, but not required. Deep payments architecture experience is mandatory.
What You’ll Do- Architect and lead end-to-end payment orchestration strategy
- Design multi-PSP routing logic and failover systems
- Lead integration from gateway abstraction to direct acquirer connections
- Oversee token migration and vault strategy
- Ensure PCI-compliant design and security best practices
- Guide backend and DevOps engineers through execution
- Clean abstraction layer across PSPs
- Reduced payment friction
- Improved authorization rates
- Modernized checkout infrastructure
Requirements
- 8+ years backend engineering experience
- 4+ years in payments infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of:
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
- Tokenization
- Recurring billing logic
- Card-not-present flows
- Experience integrating PSPs (e.g., Worldpay, Checkout.com, Adyen, Stripe, etc.)
- Experience designing high-availability systems
- Gr4vy integration exposure
- Subscription/SaaS billing systems
- Gateway-to-direct processor migration projects
Benefits
- High-Impact Architecture Project
- Executive Visibility
- Competitive Contract Compensation
- Flexible Remote Structure
- Clear Scope, Clear Timeline
- Long-Term Engagement
- Technical Ownership
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