Job Description

Sr. Software Architect- Client Development

Summary/Objective

Recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing companies in North America, Paymentus is the premier provider of innovative, reliable, and secure electronic bill payment and presentment for over 1700 clients, serving industries such as utilities, telecom, insurance, and healthcare, among others.

We are a SaaS provider who continually builds upon a massively scalable platform, supporting thousands of businesses and millions of transactions on a daily basis, there’s a lot of industry leading projects to play a significant part in. We’re looking for high performers to join our team who excel in their expertise and transform plans into action. You’ll have the opportunity to grow in an environment where intelligence, innovation, and leadership are valued and rewarded.

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities

You are a collaborative and hands-on technical leader that is passionate about building new products, enhancing existing solutions, and translating the business and technical requirements into cloud-first solutions that leverage a scalable and configurable platform. You seek to provide hands-on architectural guidance to help teams of engineers design and deliver solutions, demonstrate how to gain benefits from generative-AI to increase developer productivity, & implement best-practices in software design and evaluate new technologies to make data-driven decisions. You will be responsible for prototyping, architecting, detailed design, coding, code review, and unit testing of enterprise-class software. You bring to the team your senior-level experience across JavaEE (Spring/Springboot), Node.js, API-first architecture, event-driven design, Web 2.0 and JS frameworks using ECMAScript 6+ / TypeScript, data streaming, and relational and NoSQL databases.

• Leading, playing a leadership role in the analysis and design phases on challenging projects.
• Gains deep expertise in all aspects of the Paymentus enterprise payments platform and broad understanding of Paymentus clients' needs
• Expert understanding of modern software landscape, ability to quickly learn new technologies and assess their applicability within business requirements
• Consistently comes up with creative solutions to the most complex problems across the spectrum of entire payments domain, and leverages Artificial Intelligence and GenAI to increase productivity
• Understands the big picture, drives platform architecture towards the best industry patterns
• Shows ability to handle vague and/or incomplete requirements, collaborate with business stakeholders to fill in the gaps and provide clear direction to the technical teams
• Well-recognized leader within Paymentus community: when the need arises takes on management responsibilities and is capable of providing direction to the cross-discipline teams
• Seeing the big picture, build out architectural enhancements that will enable an agile development team to solve common problems with architectural patterns.
• Communicating technical concepts to team members, and across the IT organization to assist others to understand and embrace new technologies and internal best practices.
• Participating in design discussions, facilitating open discussions by establishing clear context.
• Pro-actively identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions that are demonstrated in code.
• Iterating and focusing on innovative outcomes within an agile development process.
• Providing design review, and code-review on high-impact changes.

Education and Experience

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a leading University in North America or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience with Java EE; with emphasis on enterprise software development
• 3+ years experience building scalable web applications built around microservices architecture, including RESTful services in Node.JS, Java or Go
• 2+ years project experience in production, using one or more JS frameworks: Node.JS/Express, NestJS, React, Vue
• 2+ years of NoSQL database experience with one of MongoDB, DynamoDB, Hbase
• Experience leading development teams on projects from inception to delivery
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, PostgreSQL
• Proficient at writing native HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript6+, CSS3
• Automated testing expertise including JUnit 5, Mocha, Jest
• Cloud architecture and automated deployment experience to one provider: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Worked with GenAI code-generation tooling/models such as CoPilot/GPT, Cursor/Claude
• Exceptional communication skills; strong writing and speaking skills in English
• Project experience with asynchronous languages, including Node.JS and GoLang
• Kubernetes container orchestration
• Serverless architecture, and data-driven architecture
• Demonstrated contributions to software projects in the public realm
• Familiarity with Linux or BSD

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers and smartphones.

Physical Demands

This role requires sitting or standing at a computer workstation.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 40 hours a week. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

No travel required for this role.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EEO Statement

Paymentus is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, marital status, disability, military service or veteran status, genetic information, medical condition including medical characteristics, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

Reasonable Accommodation

Paymentus recognizes and supports its obligation to endeavor to accommodate job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities who are able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation. Paymentus will endeavor to provide reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company or pose a direct threat of substantial harm to the employee or others.

An applicant or employee who believes he or she needs a reasonable accommodation of a disability should discuss the need for possible accommodation with the Human Resources Department, or his or her direct supervisor. This is an existing vacancy.

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