Payoneer: Architect - Backend — Gurugram, India

About Payoneer

Payoneer provides cross-border payment services for small and mid-sized businesses. Its platform offers multi-currency accounts, payment collection from marketplaces and clients, payouts across many countries and related financial services for freelancers, online sellers and enterprises. Marketplaces and digital platforms also use it to make bulk payouts to partners, and its employer feed lists engineering, risk and commercial roles for this payment network.

The position and its setting

Payoneer lists Architect - Backend in Gurugram, India, under reference 7699189. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Enterprise Marketplaces
• Employer listing date: 6 August 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Operate at the intersection of cloud architecture and enterprise modernization, leading critical initiatives to migrate, modernize, and re-architect legacy platforms into scalable, secure, and highly automated cloud-native systems
• Introduce AI-enabled capabilities to solve engineering and business problems by identifying high-value use cases, enabling AI adoption and AI-led development practices across teams, and delivering measurable outcomes
• Building: and ship agentic systems that can plan, execute, and collaborate with humans safely with robust controls, and help build core AI capabilities to scale adoption
• Leadership: initiatives from a technical front, defining target architectures, establishing modernization patterns, and driving execution across engineering teams
• Design: and implement cloud-native solutions, modern infrastructure platforms, and secure cloud environments that can support global-scale workloads
• This role operates in a mission-driven model, where you will engage with multiple teams to accelerate modernization, unblock critical initiatives, and establish patterns and platforms that can be adopted broadly across the organization
• Your work will directly shape the company’s future cloud platform and engineering velocity

Essential requirements and candidate background

• You are a seasoned Cloud and Modernization Architect with a sense of ownership and accountability
• You are comfortable operating in complex enterprise environments and driving large-scale transformation initiatives
• You also have a point of view on practical AI adoption
• You can translate real engineering pain points into AI-enabled solutions, select the right patterns and ship systems with evaluation, observability, and governance
• You bring deep expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure, databases, and DevOps, and can translate legacy architectures into modern, scalable, and cloud-native systems
• You balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic execution and understand how to modernize systems safely and incrementally
• You embrace change and continuously adapt to evolving technologies, architectures, and organizational needs
• You are proactive, curious, and comfortable making architectural decisions in ambiguous environments
• You thrive in cross-team environments and influence teams through technical leadership, clarity, and execution
• You are impact-driven, not territory-driven, and measure success by how effectively you modernize systems, enable teams, and improve the organization’s overall cloud maturity
• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization of enterprise systems
• Experience designing cloud architecture including compute, storage, networking, and security
• Experience: Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience: cloud networking, VPC design, private connectivity, and secure architectures
• Experience: relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Aurora
• Experience: NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar
• Experience: containers and Kubernetes, preferably EKS
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Gurugram, India

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Payoneer

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Relevant skills

• NoSQL
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• AI/ML
• Terraform
• AI
• compliance