Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About Payabli

Payabli is a next-generation Payments Infrastructure and Monetization Platform purpose-built for vertical software companies. Through a single, developer-friendly API with low-code embedded payment components, Payabli enables platforms to seamlessly embed, monetize, and operationalize payments—making payments a core part of their platform and business model.

By unifying payment acceptance, payment issuance, and advanced payment operations tooling, Payabli empowers software companies to manage and move money through a single infrastructure stack that delivers total control over the payments experience. Built to scale with PCI DSS 4.0 and SOC 2-compliant security, Payabli’s infrastructure delivers enterprise-grade reliability and trust while leveraging AI-driven intelligence to enhance visibility, streamline operations, and drive revenue growth.

Backed by leading fintech investors including QED Investors, Fika Ventures, TTV Capital, and Bling Capital, Payabli is setting the standard for embedded payments infrastructure powering the next generation of vertical SaaS.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Payabli, you'll own the infrastructure and developer experience that every engineer at the company builds on top of. You won't be handed a task list—you'll define the vision for how we build, test, deploy, and operate our platform on AWS, then execute against it. From CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to local development and Cloud/Agent development environments, you'll be the person who makes every other engineer faster, safer, and more productive.

This is a high-ownership role. We're looking for someone who sees a gap, builds a plan, and drives it forward—not someone who waits to be told what's next.

Own the infrastructure. Design, build, and operate Payabli's cloud infrastructure. You'll make the architectural decisions around networking, compute, storage, and security that determine how our platform scales, performs, and stays resilient as transaction volume grows.

Build the deployment backbone. Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines end-to-end. Every push to production should be fast, safe, and repeatable. You'll design the release process that lets engineers ship with confidence—automated testing, staged rollouts, rollback strategies, and deployment observability baked in.

Make local development exceptional. Engineers should be able to clone a repo and be productive in minutes, not days. You'll own the local development experience and make sure it mirrors production closely enough to catch real problems early.

Enable AI-assisted development. As the team adopts AI coding agents and assistants, you'll build the environments that let engineers leverage these tools safely and effectively within a PCI-compliant infrastructure.

Define and drive the platform roadmap. Assess where we are, define where we need to be, and build the plan to get there. You'll partner with engineering leadership to prioritize infrastructure investments and communicate the "why" behind them.

Harden everything. Infrastructure in payments means PCI-DSS scoping, network segmentation, secrets management, access controls, and audit trails are your daily work. You'll ensure our infrastructure posture keeps pace with compliance requirements as we scale.

Instrument and observe. Build the monitoring, alerting, and observability stack that gives the team real-time visibility into system health. When something goes wrong at 2 AM, the infrastructure should tell us what happened before we have to ask.

Multiply the team. Document patterns, write runbooks, and establish infrastructure standards that make the entire engineering organization more self-sufficient. The best platform engineering is invisible—things just work.

5+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience. You've built and operated production AWS environments that serve real traffic at scale—not just spun up sandbox accounts.

Deep AWS expertise. You think natively in AWS services (ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation/CDK/Terraform) and understand the trade-offs between…