Fyst

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Payment Systems Project Manager to coordinate projects focused on Visa and Mastercard payment systems - from membership to certification and then operational support and compliance. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of card payment ecosystems, including authorization, clearing, settlement, chargebacks, and compliance mandates from Visa and Mastercard, and an understanding of licensing and membership processes.

You will play a crucial role in the successful implementation, upgrade, or integration of payment systems, working cross-functionally with technical, operational, and compliance teams.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON
 

• Coordinate end-to-end project management for initiatives involving Visa and Mastercard (e.g., memberships, certifications, new product launches, mandate updates).
• Collaborate with payment systems, card processors,  payment gateways, and tech teams to ensure complete alignment and timely delivery of projects.
• Manage stakeholder communications, reporting on timelines, risks, dependencies, and budgets.
• Oversee compliance with Visa/Mastercard rules and regulations, including mandates.
• Coordinate certification and testing with Visa and Mastercard (e.g., acquiring, e-commerce,  BIN sponsorships).
• Ensure proper documentation, training, and change management for all activities and new systems.
   

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in project management, ideally in the financial services or payment industry.
• Strong understanding of Visa/Mastercard systems, rules, and integration standards.
• Proven experience delivering projects involving acquiring platforms.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
   

WILL BE A PLUS
 

• Experience with payment gateway services, processing systems, or payment orchestration platforms.
• Technical understanding of APIs, SDKs, and message formats used in payment switching or processing. 

WHAT WE OFFER

• An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
• Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us 
• Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
• Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
• Remote type of work 
• Team building events and corporate parties.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON
 

• Design and build a payment processing platform from scratch: core payment flows, transaction lifecycle, routing logic, retries, fallbacks, settlements, refunds, chargebacks
• Define and own the end-to-end product vision for payment processing, from zero state to a scalable production system
• Architect payment flows across multiple providers (PSPs, acquirers, banks), including multi-PSP routing, MID management, and failover strategies
• Own the core gateway logic: authorization, capture, voids, refunds, recurring payments, payouts, callbacks/webhooks
• Work closely with engineering on system design decisions: APIs, data models, idempotency, reliability, observability
• Translate business and compliance requirements into clear product and technical specifications
• Own the full product lifecycle: discovery → design → delivery → launch → iteration
• Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, 3DS, card scheme rules (Visa/Mastercard), and regulatory requirements
• Manage relationships with external partners: PSPs, acquirers, fraud/KYC providers
• Drive product decisions based on metrics: approval rates, latency, decline reasons, cost per transaction, and stability

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE
 

• At least 4-5+ years of experience as a Product Manager in payments/fintech
• Proven hands-on experience building payment processing or payment gateway products from scratch (not only integrations or feature ownership - core processing logic is mandatory)
• Deep understanding of the payment transaction lifecycle. card payments, 3DS, authorization/clearing/settlement, PSP and acquirer integrations, routing, cascading, retries, failover
• Strong understanding of payment system architecture and how backend systems work
• Ability to work as a product owner with architectural thinking, not just requirements management
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in complex, regulated environments
• High ownership mindset: able to independently drive decisions and outcomes
• Strong analytical, system-thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Good level of English 
   

WHAT WE OFFER

• An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
• Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us
• Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
• Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
• The opportunity to attend conferences, courses, and professional development at the company's expense - we favor the continuous development of our employees
• Private health insurance coverage
• Remote work
• 20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; sick leaves; additional birthday day off
• Team building events and corporate parties.

You can find out more about our team, our values, and the unique ways we celebrate our successes here: https://fyst.com/culture 

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

• Design and development of the core banking system and Internet acquiring service within the financial ecosystem
• Participation in product architecture design and query optimization
• Data handling: synchronization, transmission, and processing
• Implementation of new business logic in applications
• Work with metrics: integration, optimization, and monitoring. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE

• At least 4-5+ years of experience in backend development, including 2+ years of production experience with Golang
• Deep knowledge of Golang and its ecosystem
• Solid understanding of multithreaded systems and concurrent programming principles
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining microservice architectures
• Strong understanding and practical application of software development principles: SOA, SOLID, KISS, DRY
• Experience in architectural design and readiness to propose and implement technical solutions
• Familiarity with Clean Architecture principles and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience in fintech is a plus, but not required 
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

OUR TECH STACK

• Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC 

WHAT WE OFFER

• An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
• Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us 
• Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
• Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
• Remote type of work

• 20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; Sick leaves; Additional birthday day off

   

You can find out more about our team, our values, and the unique ways we celebrate our successes here: https://fyst.com/culture 

#Fintech #SaaS #Go #FullyRemote 

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

• Analysis of the existing program code, identification and elimination of errors
• Development of program code for company projects
• Interaction with the development department, testing
• Support and development of integrations with side services.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE

• 4- 5+ years of professional experience with Python 3.10+, with a deep understanding of its asynchronous programming model
• Domain knowledge in payment systems or financial flows 
• Strong hands-on experience with asyncio, FastAPI or aiohttp, SQLAlchemy, and Django ORM
• Experience in system design (Scalability, Reliability & Fault Tolerance, Security, Performance)
• Practical experience with microservice architectures, API development, and service-to-service communication (REST, GRPC)
• Knowledge of and experience with message queues like RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience writing and maintaining unit/integration tests with modern testing frameworks
• Experience with Grafana loki(LogQL), Jaeger/Tempo
• Familiarity with gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) is a plus

• Knowledge of how 3ds2 flow works is a big plus

   

OUR TECH STACK

Python 3.12, FastAPI, Django, async gRPC, asyncio, pytest, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, PostgreSQL.
 

WHAT WE OFFER

• An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
• Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us 
• Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
• Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
• Remote type of work
• 20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; Sick leaves; Additional birthday day off

You can find out more about our team, our values, and the unique ways we celebrate our successes here: https://fyst.com/culture 

#Fintech #SaaS #FullyRemote #Python