Software Architect Fintech

Job Summary

We are currently looking to connect with experienced professionals in the FinTech domain particularly those with strong expertise in payment systems payment orchestration platforms and proven experience at a Solution Architect level.

At Convo we are seeking forward-thinking professionals who can blend deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement skills enabling the delivery of scalable and impactful solutions across complex financial and payment ecosystems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in designing and building end-to-end payment platforms from scratch including multi-gateway integrations transaction routing and cloud-native architectures on AWS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for payment platforms orchestration layers and financial systems.
• Design scalable secure and high-performance architectures handling high transaction volumes.
• Architect payment orchestration systems including smart routing failover retries and reconciliation.
• Integrate with payment gateways acquirers card networks and alternative payment methods.
• Design systems supporting authorization capture refunds subscriptions and tokenization.
• Drive system integration modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Implement event-driven microservices architectures and real-time processing systems.
• Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS security standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership governance and mentorship to engineering teams.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 15 years of experience in software engineering/architecture with strong FinTech exposure.
• Proven experience building payment systems or orchestration platforms from scratch.
• Strong understanding of microservices APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS (EC2 Lambda ECS/EKS S3 RDS DynamoDB SQS SNS API Gateway).
• Experience designing high-availability fault-tolerant and multi-region systems.
• Deep knowledge of payment flows gateway integrations and financial data models.
• Strong understanding of security practices including encryption tokenization and secrets management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive technical discussions and lead client-facing engagements.

What We Have For You

• Great compensation package medical benefit for you and your family free lunch Bi-annual performance-tied increments & performance recognition awards and a great lean and agile work culture!
• Convo endorses a culture of diversity in all aspects and aims to build a diverse team of amazing individuals!