Ref: KY-2026-01524

Senior Payments Engineer (Approval Rate & PSP Integrations)

CareerFinders Recruitment Services

Location

Remote

Fully Remote

Type

full-time

Experience

Senior (5+ yrs)

Salary (Gross)

€6,000 - €7,000 per month

Apply within

31 days

About the Role

CareerFinders, on behalf of an adult creator-economy company with newly established operations in Cyprus, is seeking a Senior Payments Engineer to build and optimise payment infrastructure for 18+ creator brands on a fully remote basis. The role focuses on improving payment approval rates, integrating payment service providers (PSPs), and developing reliable payment routing and processing systems.

Responsibilities

Integrate and maintain payment processors and APIs
Improve initial and recurring payment approval rates
Build and optimise payment routing, cascading, and retry systems
Manage card vaults, tokenisation, and secure payment data
Develop chargeback prevention and monitoring tools
Ensure compliance with PCI DSS security standards
Analyse transaction data and resolve payment failures

Requirements

5+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years in payments
Proven experience integrating PSPs or acquirers in production
Experience improving payment approval rates and building routing or retry systems
Strong knowledge of card tokenisation, 3DS2, webhooks, and payment processing
Proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js or Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL
Familiarity with ISO 8583 decline codes and payment security
Experience in high-risk industries such as adult, iGaming, dating, or nutra
Comfortable working with adult (18+) content

Benefits

✓Competitive senior-level base salary plus profit sharing
✓Fully remote work with flexible time zones
✓Direct collaboration with the Founder
✓Opportunity to shape paid traffic strategy and AI-powered advertising systems

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