Architect - Backend

Payoneer is hiring an Architect - Backend for a remote role open to applicants in India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Payoneer.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions AWS, Kubernetes and cloud architecture among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Payoneer has 101 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead cloud modernization and build agentic AI systems and GenAI capabilities into core enterprise platforms.

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About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

We’re looking for an Architect who is a tech-enthusiast with a drive for excellence, and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

Location: Gurgaon-India

Hybrid - Full-time

What You’ll Do

You will be a core member of the Cloud Modernization initiative, a high-impact engineering function responsible for transforming our technology backbone into a modern, cloud-native platform, while also accelerating how we use AI to improve engineering velocity, reliability, and customer outcomes by enabling safe, governed adoption of GenAI, building agentic systems, and embedding AI-assisted capabilities into our platforms and workflows.
You will operate at the intersection of cloud architecture and enterprise modernization, leading critical initiatives to migrate, modernize, and re-architect legacy platforms into scalable, secure, and highly automated cloud-native systems.
You will introduce AI-enabled capabilities to solve engineering and business problems by identifying high-value use cases, enabling AI adoption and AI-led development practices across teams, and delivering measurable outcomes.
You will build and ship agentic systems that can plan, execute, and collaborate with humans safely with robust controls, and help build core AI capabilities to scale adoption.
You will lead initiatives from a technical front, defining target architectures, establishing modernization patterns, and driving execution across engineering teams. You will design and implement cloud-native solutions, modern infrastructure platforms, and secure cloud environments that can support global-scale workloads.
This role operates in a mission-driven model, where you will engage with multiple teams to accelerate modernization, unblock critical initiatives, and establish patterns and platforms that can be adopted broadly across the organization.
You will work closely with architecture, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to modernize legacy systems, migrate databases and applications to the cloud, introduce modern DevOps and platform engineering practices, and raise the overall cloud maturity of the organization.
Your work will directly shape the company’s future cloud platform and engineering velocity.

Who You Are

You are a seasoned Cloud and Modernization Architect with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. You are comfortable operating in complex enterprise environments and driving large-scale transformation initiatives.
You also have a strong point of view on practical AI adoption. You can translate real engineering pain points into AI-enabled solutions, select the right patterns and ship systems with strong evaluation, observability, and governance.
You bring deep expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure, databases, and DevOps, and can translate legacy architectures into modern, scalable, and cloud-native systems.
You balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic execution and understand how to modernize systems safely and incrementally.
You embrace change and continuously adapt to evolving technologies, architectures, and organizational needs. You are proactive, curious, and comfortable making architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
You thrive in cross-team environments and influence teams through technical leadership, clarity, and strong execution.
You are impact-driven, not territory-driven, and measure success by how effectively you modernize systems, enable teams, and improve the organization’s overall cloud maturity.

Key skills and competencies

10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering
Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS
Proven experience leading cloud migration and modernization of enterprise systems
Strong experience designing cloud architecture including compute, storage, networking, and security
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience with cloud networking, VPC design, private connectivity, and secure architectures
Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Aurora
Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar
Experience with containers and Kubernetes, preferably EKS
Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
Experience modernizing legacy systems into microservices or cloud-native architectures
Experience with high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery design
Experience working in enterprise environments with strong security and compliance requirements
B.S. in computer science or equivalent

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The Payoneer Ways of Working

Act as our customer’s partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.

Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.

Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.

Build each other up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.

If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.

How we rate this

Architect - Backend at Payoneer rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Architect - Backend is an open job at Payoneer.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Gurugram, India and is marked remote.
The job was posted on August 6, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Payoneer. Apply on Payoneer

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Cloud ArchitectureSystem ModernizationGenerative AIAgentic SystemsAWSKubernetes

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Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.

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