Backend Engineer

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.

Role Summary

As a Backend Engineer in the Credit Cards team, you will be an experienced individual contributor to our Cloud transformation journey, contributing to the re-architecture, development, and delivery of next-generation solutions. You will work on evolving the systems that power our card offering end-to-end, from card ordering and issuing to transaction processing and lifecycle management.

You will collaborate closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, contributing to the design and implementation of scalable, reliable backend services. This role offers an opportunity to deepen your expertise in cloud-native, transactional systems while taking ownership of meaningful components within a complex and highly impactful domain.

Location: Petach Tikva

Hybrid

Full-time

What You’ll Do

You will be a key contributor to the Credit Cards engineering team, supporting the full card lifecycle, from ordering and issuing to limiting, managing, and monitoring card transactions. The team integrates with third-party payment processors, 3D Secure systems, and MasterCard to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable card services.

You will work on backend features and enhancements, helping to design, build, and maintain robust systems that support card operations and transactions. You will collaborate closely with senior engineers, product, architecture, and operations teams to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions, which will impact the efficiency of card services and the quality of customer experiences.

You will take part in modernizing the existing card systems into a new event-driven architecture, introducing cloud-native patterns. Build it from scratch while ensuring that card business services remain reliable, secure, and performant.

Who You Are

You are a skilled Backend Engineer with strong backend development experience and a good understanding of cloud architecture. You are comfortable navigating complex systems and turning requirements into practical, reliable solutions.

You are eager to learn and grow, able to adapt to new technologies and integration challenges, and embrace change with curiosity and initiative. You communicate clearly and work collaboratively, building trust through technical quality and reliability.

You take pride in delivering solutions that have a measurable impact, supporting both the business and your team’s technical capabilities.

Skills you are bringing with you

• 3+ years of experience with backend development, preferably C# and Node.js
• 3+ years of experience with advanced SQL (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience with NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB
• Experience with building SaaS platforms for cloud-based products, preferably AWS
• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes (K8s), preferably EKS
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture
• Experience with Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka, preferably Kafka
• Experience with Microservices development
• Experience with AI tools for leveraging team velocity & quality
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent