Senior Full Stack Payments Engineer (AWS)
Levy Professionals · Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Senior Full Stack Payments Engineer (AWS | AI-Native Development)
The Challenge
This is a senior engineering role where you’ll contribute across the full software lifecycle-from architecture and solution design through implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement. You’ll help shape technical direction, mentor fellow engineers, and build resilient cloud-native solutions within a highly regulated banking and payments environment.
The team embraces modern engineering practices, leveraging AWS, GitHub, and AI-assisted software development as part of everyday delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve highly available payment services and platforms.
- Architect scalable microservices for mission-critical payment processing.
- Deliver full-stack solutions across backend services and frontend applications.
- Drive technical decision-making and influence engineering standards.
- Build secure, resilient cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Improve system performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and business stakeholders.
- Embed AI-assisted development into engineering workflows to improve quality and delivery speed.
Essential Experience
- Extensive senior-level software engineering experience building large-scale digital products or platforms.
- Strong experience within the payments domain, including:
- Payment processing
- Transaction flows
- PSD2
- Payment gateways
- Acquiring
- Digital wallets
- Proven experience designing and implementing production-grade microservices architectures.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience, including:
- ECS
- Lambda
- DynamoDB
- SNS
- SQS
- CloudFormation
- Strong development experience with:
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Java
- Spring Boot
- AWS CDK
- Experience working with AI-native or Agentic Engineering practices.
- Daily professional experience using GitHub Copilot (or similar AI coding assistants).
- Experience with GitHub Actions and AI-assisted CI/CD workflows.
- Previous experience within banking, fintech, or regulated financial services.