Software Architect (Payments)

FastSpring is looking for a hands-on Software Architect to join our high-impact Payments team. Software Architects are responsible for architecting, prototyping and delivering our industry-leading full-service eCommerce platform. Responsibilities: - Technically Lead a lean development team to build new Payments Capabilities for our customers, augment in-house Payments "back-office" (e.g., reconciliation and revenue recognition) and a lean AI/ML driven "Risk Engine" that learns from existing customer behavior and automatically becomes better by lowering systemic- fraud. - Develop and maintain payment processing frameworks supporting multiple payment rails, especially focusing on International Payment Methods (e.g., credit/debit cards, digital wallets, real-time bank transfers, etc) - Design and oversee API integrations with payment service providers (PSPs), acquiring banks, and financial institutions. - Conduct system performance tuning, latency reduction, and high-availability configurations for payment systems that are inherently distributed. - Leader in Observability baked-in with dev processes and production infrastructure - Implement real-time monitoring and analytics for payment transactions to detect anomalies and optimize processing to ensure "365 incident free days a year". - Design disaster recovery and failover strategies to ensure business continuity in payment operations, including real-time orchestration between key processors and vendors if they are not available - Build a Payments and Risk/Fraud focused world class Tech Stack that serves our customers by being best in class in speed, availability and reliability. - Respond to production issues and apply continuous improvement techniques to fully resolve them. Nothing else matters if production is "broken".

FastSpring is the world's leading ecommerce platform for SaaS/Software, gaming, and digital product companies. Our product hosts over 10 million transactions per year, powering sales growth for more than 3,500 companies in over 200 countries, using every major currency. We pride ourselves on being an innovative company with an entrepreneurial culture, growth mindset, global influence, and profitable operations. We are committed to building an inclusive work environment, and we invest in our employees by helping team members grow and develop professionally. We are developers, technologists, and business professionals who are globally-minded, customer-focused, and driven by constant innovation. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in Santa Barbara with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, Belfast and Halifax.