Senior Backend Developer (File Processing)

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payabl.ECommerce Payment Processing
Remote from Portugal or Poland (Contractor arrangement) or Cyprus Onsite (Relocation support provided)Full-TimeSenior
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Job Details

Languages
English
Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
AWSPostgreSQLPythonMySQLAirflowAWS Lambda

Requirements

  • 5+ years of production-grade Python development experience.
  • Proven experience in job orchestration using Prefect or Airflow.
  • Solid experience with AWS services, specifically S3, Lambda, SQS, and ECS.
  • Strong experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
  • Experience processing large-scale file-based data.
  • Advocacy for clean, maintainable, and intentional code.
  • Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Familiarity with payment scheme file formats like Visa BASE II or Mastercard IPM (nice to have).
  • Experience reading and refactoring legacy scripting languages like Perl (nice to have).
  • Knowledge of payment clearing, interchange, and reconciliation processes (nice to have).

Responsibilities

  • Migrate and re-architect legacy Perl batch jobs and crontab pipelines into modern Python-based services.
  • Design and implement workflow orchestration using Prefect or Airflow, including alerting and observability dashboards.
  • Instrument services with structured logging and metrics to ensure robust system monitoring.
  • Manage the data layer for file ingestion, including landing files to S3 and parsing/transforming data for persistence in PostgreSQL or RDS.
  • Process and reconcile payment scheme files such as clearing, settlement, and chargebacks.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, write technical documentation, and establish engineering best practices.
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