Senior Backend Engineer – Payments

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🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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CXM Direct

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Finance • Fintech

CXM Direct is a global forex and CFD broker offering a wide range of trading instruments including currencies, commodities, indices, energy products, and cryptocurrencies. With advanced trading platforms such as MetaTrader 4 and 5, CXM Direct provides innovative trading solutions tailored to the needs of professional traders. The company offers various account types and services such as leverage policies, instant deposits, and withdrawals, ensuring a seamless trading experience. Regulated in multiple jurisdictions, CXM Direct emphasizes safety and sophistication in trading, positioning itself as a pioneer in the online trading environment.

📋 Description

• Build and own the connector and adapter layer so providers can be added or replaced through configuration and thin adapters • Migrate payment methods from redirect flows to server-to-server and embedded flows where supported, and measure the results • Own reconciliation, transaction status handling, method configuration and payment flows into the client portal downstream of the orchestration layer • Make transaction status reliable end to end through active polling, idempotent processing and reconciliation • Build observability over transaction status and provider performance • Specify and review orchestration platform behavior including transaction state machines, idempotency, polling, routing and cascading rules • Support integration work for the card programme • Extend the integration set to acquired entities through configuration rather than new builds • Take over the integration codebase, strengthen transaction status handling and ship a first server-to-server integration • Establish the adapter layer, launch providers against it and make transaction status and provider performance observable • Lead migration to server-to-server and embedded flows across payment methods and extend integrations to other entities

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in backend engineering, strong in TypeScript, Node.js, comfortable in relational databases • Production experience with payment systems: authorisation, callbacks, refunds, reconciliation and retry behaviour • Practical understanding of idempotency, asynchronous status handling, transaction state machines and designing for partial failure • Experience integrating third-party APIs of uneven quality, including working directly with a provider's integration team to resolve what the documentation does not answer • Ability to own a service rather than close tickets: architecture decisions, standards and root cause fixes • English and Russian at a working communicative level • Exposure to .NET for work touching the client portal • Experience with APM and local rails in Asia, Africa or LATAM rather than cards alone • Experience with bank transfer rails, virtual accounts, QR-based methods, mobile money etc. • Event-driven patterns in production: transactional outbox, idempotent consumers, sagas • Background in brokerage, crypto payments, orchestration or another high-volume payments environment; on the provider side, at a PSP, gateway or payment company • Active use of AI tooling in daily work • Ability to work independently and make decisions without constant oversight • Proactive mindset: willingness to propose improvements, fixes, new approaches

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed monthly compensation of [based on experience] • Fully remote work within GMT to GMT+4, with no relocation required • Ownership of the connector layer and everything downstream, with direct influence on what the orchestration platform becomes • Engineering problems that are not CRUD: asynchronous status across dozens of providers, partial failure, and local payment rails in emerging markets • Scope that grows with the business: a card programme, new entities and new payment products • Corporate AI tooling as part of the working process