Processing Engineer

Role Overview

• Drive Salmon's move from a vendor-controlled SaaS processing model to a licensed, Salmon-owned processing platform
• Own delivery from vendor selection through certification and production, starting with ATM acquiring.
• Join the Acquiring Platform team to stand up licensed processing services, starting with Phase 1 ATM acquiring and extending toward POS and e-commerce acquiring.
• Work across the full integration landscape — processing platform, ATM middleware, HSM/RKL, Visa and BancNet acquiring, anti-fraud, core banking, and internal card systems on AWS/EKS.
• Sit at the center of acquiring engineering, infrastructure, security and compliance, payment schemes, and the external processing vendor.
• Own delivery of the licensed acquiring processing platform end-to-end, from scope definition to production readiness.
• Translate business, scheme, compliance, and operational requirements into clear technical requirements, Jira tasks, and documentation.
• Drive API and ISO 8583 integration design — message flows, error handling, reversals, reconciliation, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Manage external provider delivery: scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, acceptance criteria, UAT, certification, and release planning.
• Coordinate developers, QA, infrastructure, security, compliance, and operations from business request through production release.
• Support incident analysis, production readiness, monitoring setup, and post-release stabilization.
• Maintain the implementation roadmap, critical-path tracking, and decision and risk logs for stakeholders.

Requirements

• 4+ years as a Technical Product Manager, System Analyst, Solution Analyst, or Product Owner in fintech, banking, or payment processing.
• Strong understanding of acquiring, payment processing, the issuer/acquirer/scheme model, and the transaction lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with complex system integrations — ideally processors, switches, payment networks, HSMs, or ATM/POS/e-commerce acquiring.
• Knowledge of ISO 8583, authorization flows, reversals, reconciliation, clearing and settlement, and certification processes.
• Experience designing APIs, integration contracts, sequence flows, operational processes, and technical documentation from scratch.
• Good understanding of microservices, cloud deployment, databases, monitoring, and release/change management.
• Ability to manage external providers and convert contractual commitments into executable delivery plans.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills for transaction investigation and validation.
• A proactive, structured, ownership-driven mindset across product, engineering, compliance, and business teams.
• English B2 or higher.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Microservices
• SQL

Benefits

• Real ownership from day one
• High standards
• Direct communication