Senior Software Engineer

Tech Lead (Full-Stack

• Mobile + Web) — Ecom Payments
• Fintech Location : Kuwait (on-site)
• Employment : Full-time
• Senior / Lead

Stack : React Native (CLI), Next.js, NestJS, RabbitMQ, TypeORM, PostgreSQL

About Ecom Payments Ecom Payments builds Kuwait-first payment products—APIs and apps that power KNET, Apple Pay, and cards —serving SMEs and marketplaces with real-time settlements, refunds, and risk controls . We help businesses accept payments easily, create shareable payment links, and launch storefronts with tools that actually grow revenue. We’re compliant with CBK guidance and PCI DSS standards.

The Role You’ll own the architecture and delivery of our merchant mobile apps (React Native), web console (Next.js), and backend payment services (NestJS). You will lead a small, high-impact squad, raise the engineering bar, and keep our rails fast, reliable, and compliant .

What You’ll Do Lead design, implementation, and operation of payment services (auth / capture, refunds, settlements, webhooks).

Architect event-driven flows with RabbitMQ (retries, DLQs, backoff, idempotency / exactly-once effects).

Model data with TypeORM + PostgreSQL (migrations, indexing, transactions, partitioning).

Ship React Native (CLI) features; manage releases, OTA updates, and store ops (iOS / Android).

Build our Next.js console : SSR / ISR, secure dashboards, multi-tenant controls.

Integrate with acquirers / wallets (KNET, Apple Pay, Visa / MC 3DS / SRC, network tokenization).

Establish CI / CD, testing strategy, and observability (logs, metrics, traces); run on-call playbooks.

Partner with Product / Risk / Compliance on CBK policies, surcharge rules, and PCI scope reduction.

Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and shape the technical roadmap.

Must-Have Experience 7+ years software engineering, 2+ years leading / owning production systems.

React Native (CLI) : native modules, performance profiling, release pipelines.

Next.js : routing, SSR / ISR, caching / CDN strategy, secure API routes.

NestJS : modular design, guards / interceptors, configuration, Jest testing.

RabbitMQ : exchanges / queues, consumer groups, DLQ patterns, idempotency keys.

TypeORM + PostgreSQL : schema design, query optimization, ACID transactions.

Proven ops mindset : monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.

Excellent communication (English; Arabic is a plus).

Nice to Have Payments domain : KNET, Apple Pay, 3DS, tokenization, refunds / chargebacks, settlements & ledgering.

Security & compliance : PCI DSS scope reduction, HSM basics, key rotation, CBK guidelines.

AWS (ECS / Fargate, RDS), Redis, Terraform, Docker; analytics & approval-rate tuning.

Marketplace : sub-merchant onboarding, split payments, rate assignment.

What We Offer Ownership of architecture in a modern fintech stack.

A roadmap that impacts thousands of merchants across Kuwait / GCC.

Competitive salary & benefits, hybrid / remote flexibility (GMT+3), learning budget.

How to Apply Email info@ecom.io with subject “Tech Lead — {Your Name}” .

Attach your CV + GitHub / portfolio , and include a short note about a payment or event-driven system you designed (diagram + 3 key decisions).

Short Screening (preferred) NestJS + RabbitMQ : one publisher & one consumer with retry + DLQ; idempotent processing.

TypeORM / Postgres : a migration and an indexed query for a transactions table; explain index choice.

Next.js : an SSR dashboard calling the service; show a correlation ID end-to-end.

(Optional) React Native (CLI) : a screen that lists the last 10 payments from the API.