Senior Payments Engineer - Java/Kotlin

Software Engineering

Back End Engineer

All New Zealand

Permanent

Sam Forrest
Sam Forrest

Account Manager

Posted

November 9, 2026

  • 6 month contract, chance to extend
  • Hands-on with issuing, acquiring, Apple Pay and network tokenisation
  • Fully remote role (NZ)
About the Company
Our client is a global fintech scaling its payments engineering squad. You’ll join on contract and ship alongside their engineers day to day.

About the Role
Build and improve card payment systems across issuing and/or acquiring, from authorisation through clearing, settlement and disputes. Work on PSP and gateway integrations, digital wallets including Apple Pay, and secure card tokenisation.

Skills & Experience
  • Hands-on card issuing or acquiring engineering (essential)
  • Full card chain knowledge: issuers, acquirers, processors, networks
  • Expert Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot
  • Kafka, microservices and event-driven architecture
  • Tokenisation, HSMs and cryptography
  • Relational databases and CI/CD (GitLab or Bitbucket)
  • Nice to have: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, DynamoDB
Why Work Here?
  • Specialist payments work at global scale
  • Remote working from anywhere in NZ
Interested? Apply now or email sam@talent.army for a confidential chat.

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