Architect - Backend

About Payoneer Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence. We’re looking for an Architect who is a tech-enthusiast with a drive for excellence, and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment. Location: Gurgaon-India Hybrid - Full-time What You’ll Do • You will be a core member of the Cloud Modernization initiative, a high-impact engineering function responsible for transforming our technology backbone into a modern, cloud-native platform, while also accelerating how we use AI to improve engineering velocity, reliability, and customer outcomes by enabling safe, governed adoption of GenAI, building agentic systems, and embedding AI-assisted capabilities into our platforms and workflows. • You will 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. • You will 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. • You will build 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. • You will lead initiatives from a technical front, defining target architectures, establishing modernization patterns, and driving execution across engineering teams. You will 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. • You will work closely with architecture, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to modernize legacy systems, migrate databases and applications to the cloud, introduce modern DevOps and platform engineering practices, and raise the overall cloud maturity of the organization. • Your work will directly shape the company’s future cloud platform and engineering velocity. Who You Are • You are a seasoned Cloud and Modernization Architect with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. You are comfortable operating in complex enterprise environments and driving large-scale transformation initiatives. • You also have a strong 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 strong 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 strong 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. Key skills and competencies • 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering • Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS • Proven experience leading cloud migration and modernization of enterprise systems • Strong experience designing cloud architecture including compute, storage, networking, and security • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or CloudFormation • Experience with cloud networking, VPC design, private connectivity, and secure architectures • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Aurora • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar • Experience with containers and Kubernetes, preferably EKS • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices • Experience modernizing legacy systems into microservices or cloud-native architectures • Experience with high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery design • Experience working in enterprise environments with strong security and compliance requirements • B.S. in computer science or equivalent #LI-AK1 The Payoneer Ways of Working Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last. Build each other up Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today. We are committed to providing a diverse