Job Title : Member of Technical Staff II (Payment Gateway)

About Pine Labs :

At Pine Labs, we believe Every Day is Game Day. We bring our best selves to work each day to realize our mission of enriching the world through the power of digital commerce and financial services. We are builders, problem-solvers, and owners who thrive on pushing boundaries and delivering impact at scale.

The responsibilities we entrust with you :

- Architectural Design : Lead the design and architecture of our payment platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

- Payment Gateway Integration : Design and implement integrations with various payment gateways, supporting card payments, UPI, net banking, and other payment methods

- Technology Selection : Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for building and maintaining the payment platform.

- Domain Expertise : Leverage deep domain knowledge of card payments, UPI, net banking, and checkout processes to design effective solutions.

- Microservices Architecture : Design and implement a microservices-based architecture for the payment platform, ensuring loose coupling, high availability, and independent deployability.

- Mentorship : Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the team

- Event-Driven Architecture : Implement an event-driven architecture to enable real-time processing, asynchronous communication, and improved system responsiveness.

- Documentation : Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the payment platform.

- Scalability and Performance : Design the system to handle high transaction volumes and ensure optimal performance under peak loads.

- Collaboration : Work closely with engineering, product, and other stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver high-quality solutions.

- Security : Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive financial data and comply with industry standards (e.g., PCI DSS).

- Checkout Experience : Optimize the checkout flow to provide a seamless and user-friendly experience for customers.

What matters in this role :

Experience & Portfolio :

Extensive experience (e.g., 12-15 years) in software development, with a significant focus on payment systems.

Technical Skills & Efficiency :

- Deep understanding of payment gateways, card payments (e.g., Visa, Mastercard, Amex), UPI, net banking, and checkout processes.

- Proven experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.

- Experience with event-driven architecture and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards (e.g., PCI DSS, ISO 27001)

Communication & Ownership :

- Strong understanding of scalability, performance optimization, and high availability

- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

- Ability to work effectively in an agile development environment

Preferred Skills ( Good to have ) :

- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.

- Experience with specific payment gateways or processors.

- Contributions to open-source projects related to payments or distributed systems.

- Good knowledge on AI based solutioning

Things you should be comfortable with :

Working from office : As of now, we work out of our offices, 5 days a week.

Pushing the boundaries : Have a big idea? See something that you feel we should do but havent done? We will hustle hard to make it happen. We encourage out of the box thinking, and if you bring that with you, we will make sure you get a bag that fits all the energy you bring along

What we value in our people :

You take the shot : You decide fast and deliver right

You are the CEO of what you do : You show ownership and make things happen

You sign your work like an artist : You seek to learn and take pride in the work you do.