Cloud Native Architect

Paysafe Limited (“Paysafe”) (NYSE: PSFE) (PSFE.WS) is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With over 20 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $140 billion in 2023, and approximately 3,200 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in over 40 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com.

It starts here. Have a global impact on the world of payments.

We're looking for a Cloud Native Architect to contribute to Paysafe’s modernization across payments, wallet, and risk platforms. This is a hands-on architecture role focused on building resilient, observable, and scalable platforms using cloud-native principles. You’ll define technical strategy, design reusable patterns, and guide teams in implementing production-grade systems that are secure, cost-efficient, and performant. This role requires strong experience in cloud-native APIs, platform consistency, and observability — with the ability to balance foundational architecture thinking and practical delivery support.

What Paysafe stands for:

• Being open and honest.
• Keeping focused.
• Operating with Courage.
• Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here. 

How we work:

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

The impact you will have:
1. Platform Modernization

• Define and evolve architectural patterns for containerized and serverless workloads (Example: breaking down monoliths into Kubernetes-based microservices or Lambda-based functions where appropriate)
• Set guardrails for service scalability, fault tolerance, and multi-region readiness
• Lead modernization of legacy stacks, especially where high-availability and regulatory requirements intersect

2. API Platform Architecture

• Architect a unified API gateway strategy that supports internal and external consumers (Example: rate limiting, authentication via OAuth2/JWT, and developer self-service)
• Define patterns for secure API exposure, traffic shaping, and policy enforcement
• Promote design-time governance: API versioning, contract-first development, observability tagging

3. Cloud-Native Infrastructure & Dev Experience

• Guide infrastructure decisions around container orchestration, eventing, and CI/CD (Example: implementing GitOps workflows using Helm/Kustomize for consistent deployments)
• Drive platform-level consistency in how services are built, deployed, and monitored
• Collaborate with security and DevOps to embed automated compliance and runtime protection

4. Observability and SLO Strategy

• Define telemetry standards across logs, metrics, and distributed tracing (Example: driving correlation between API errors, latency spikes, and infrastructure metric)s
• Work with engineering and SRE teams to define SLOs, alerts, and error budgets
• Establish best practices for service health dashboards and alert triage

5. Technical Leadership and Enablement

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to product, engineering, and infrastructure teams
• Provide architectural mentorship and pattern reviews for in-flight projects
• Align delivery with platform goals through reusable templates, golden paths, and design standards

What We're Looking For:

• Deep experience in cloud-native architecture — designing for reliability, scale, and automation
• Proven track record of delivering modern APIs at scale (internal/external) using gateways, auth strategies, and platform thinking
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda), and eventdriven systems
• Strong understanding of observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, and SLOs
• Familiar with hybrid-cloud and multi-region deployment models
• Comfortable bridging strategy with execution — ability to zoom in and out

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Exposure to developer portals and platform engineering tools
• Understanding of PCI, GDPR, and secure cloud practices in financial systems
• Contribution to open-source projects or community standards (e.g., CNCF landscape)

Why Join Paysafe Architecture
We’re shaping the future of global payments with technology that scales and adapts. Our architecture team drives foundational decisions that impact millions of users, and we believe in building platforms — not just projects. If you're passionate about clean patterns, API-first thinking, and helping engineering teams thrive, you'll fit right in.

A snippet of what you’ll get in return:

• Make your day work for you with our flexible working hours.
• You decide what your holiday looks like with the option to buy or sell your holiday and carry over up to 5 days into the next year.
• Enjoy social events on our roof top terrace with views onto St Pauls Cathedral.
• Our fully equipped facilities include showers, hairdryers and straighteners and fresh towels.
• Start your day with a free breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks.
• Take a breather in our dedicated wellbeing room.
• Spend time with those important to you with our enhanced paid family policies.
• Test our products Skrill and Neteller. Upon joining we will award you £50 into each wallet.
• Enjoy our discounts on memberships via vitality including, gyms, leisure centres, yoga/Pilates across the country.
• Need a new Laptop or TV? We offer support purchasing Apple and LG products via Stormfront technology.
• Join our six employee-led equality communities and help foster a workplace that celebrates diversity and create opportunities to collaborate and learn.
• Give back to the community with four paid charity days.
• Kickstart your weekend early with our summer hours during the months of June, July and August with a 3pm finish every Friday.
• Let’s not forget, we also offer: Private health insurance (pre-existing conditions are included) & dental insurance, income protection, life assurance and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.