Sobre

• Ambush is a People Company. But what does that mean exactly? It means we care about our people as much as we care about building great products. We take a human-centered approach to identifying, retaining and integrating highly-talented, long-term remote people into America’s best product and development team.

• We began our consulting journey in 2015 and have been growing ever since! We do that by delivering the best quality work possible for our clients. We are not afraid to take risks and we always seek the best possible path to solve a problem, instead of just a quick makeshift solution. Thanks to our highly skilled team of engineers, we always perform tasks using our best abilities!

• We are passionate about what we do everyday and we can always count on our team to have our backs. Teamwork is one of our core values! We don’t go anywhere by ourselves. We are driven to achieve great things. And we are extremely helpful to everyone. We expect you to be a team player.

When you join us, you will

• Redesign and evolve our payments architecture to support scalable, reliable, and future-proof integrations.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, ensuring resilience and compliance within a highly regulated financial environment.
• Evaluate the current payments platform, identify technical bottlenecks, and propose architectural improvements or new solutions.
• Implement payment gateway integrations and ensure resilience, performance, and compliance.
• Partner with other senior engineers to define best practices, improve workflows, and mentor peers.

What we'd like to see in a candidate

• Strong programming skills in Java and its frameworks (Spring, Quarkus, etc).
• Proven experience working with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay).
• Solid understanding of global/local payment ecosystems and experience implementing region-specific payment methods.
• Solid experience working with relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Strong background in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and modern API protocols (REST, gRPC, GraphQL).
• Strong bias toward well-tested and well-written code.
• Experience with version control (Git) and modern development practices.
• Proven experience working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills. English proficiency is required (C1/C2).

Nice to haves

• Experience with other backend programming languages, such as Scala, Kotlin, etc.
• Experience breaking monoliths into microservices.
• Great understanding of payment industry standards and regulations (PCI DSS, PSD2, etc.).
• Familiarity with mobile payment ecosystems, including Google Play Billing, and Apple In-App Purchases.