We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and optimisation of cards platform capabilities across issuing and acquiring systems. This role goes beyond execution — you will drive product engineering decisions, own end-to-end delivery, and influence the evolution of payment solutions in a high-scale banking environment.
You will work closely with business, architecture, and technology teams to build resilient, scalable, and compliant card services, ensuring high availability and seamless customer experience.
Key Responsibilities- End-to-End Ownership:
Own delivery of cards platform initiatives from requirement analysis to production rollout and post-release stability. - Product Engineering Leadership:
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions across cards issuing, acquiring, and payment processing systems. - Architecture & Design:
Contribute to system design, integration architecture, and modernisation of cards platforms (APIs, microservices, event-driven systems). - Domain Expertise (Cards):
Work on key areas including: - Card issuing & lifecycle management
- Authorisation & transaction processing
- Tokenisation & digital wallets
- Scheme integrations (Visa / Mastercard)
- Clearing & settlement
- Stakeholder Management:
Act as a bridge between business, vendors, and internal tech teams to ensure alignment and delivery excellence. - Agile Delivery:
Lead and contribute within Agile squads, ensuring timely delivery, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and prioritisation. - Production Stability & Incident Management:
Own L2/L3 support, incident resolution, RCA, and continuous improvement of platform reliability. - Quality & Testing Oversight:
Ensure strong test coverage (functional, integration, UAT) and support automation initiatives. - Vendor & Integration Management:
Work with third-party vendors and payment processors to deliver seamless integrations.
- 7+ years of experience in Cards & Payments domain within banking or financial services
- Strong understanding of:
- Cards issuing & acquiring platforms
- Payment flows, authorisation, clearing, settlement
- ISO 8583 messaging (must-have)
- Experience with card management systems (e.g., PowerCARD, VisionPLUS, Prime, or similar)
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and system integrations
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Exposure to tokenisation, digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- Knowledge of PCI-DSS compliance and security standards
- Experience in high-volume, mission-critical systems
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in Cards & Payments domain
- Strong understanding of Cards issuing & acquiring platforms
- Experience with card management systems
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and system integrations
- Experience working in Agile environments
What We Do
Global Software Solutions Group Veracious product line is a series of robust banking platforms that provide core banking, payment systems, custom process automation, and document management solutions for banks and financial institutions in Middle East & Africa. This cutting-edge product line features the Veracious Payments Hub, Digital Banking and the DMS, all built on the Torus Lowcode development platform software. Global Software Solutions Group is a software solutions provider that aims to solve mission-critical problems that financial institutions face today. Our software solutions bring together our Low Code platform, the payments product line and customized service offerings to solve mission-critical statements in core banking, payments, process automation, and document management. The Payments Hub is GSS's flagship product.
