# Lead Engineer / Payment Architect

Location: Remote (U.S. overlap preferred) Type: Contract (Full-Time Preferred) Domain: Payments / Fintech / eCommerce Infrastructure About the Project We are leading a modernization initiative for a high-growth digital commerce platform focused on payment orchestration, gateway optimization, and API-driven architecture. This role will architect and lead integration efforts involving: Payment gateway orchestration Tokenization strategy Direct PSP integrations Subscription billing logic Checkout modernization without disruption Experience with orchestration platforms such as Gr4vy, Stripe, etc. is highly desirable, but not required. Deep payments architecture experience is mandatory. What You’ll Do Architect and lead end-to-end payment orchestration strategy Design multi-PSP routing logic and failover systems Lead integration from gateway abstraction to direct acquirer connections Oversee token migration and vault strategy Ensure PCI-compliant design and security best practices Guide backend and DevOps engineers through execution What Success Looks Like Clean abstraction layer across PSPs Reduced payment friction Improved authorization rates Modernized ch

- **Id**: 3630162
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/maxana-lead-engineer-payment-architect>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, AR, BR, CO, CR
- **Hiring countries total**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-02-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T12:21:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 254
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1884
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4495936
- **Name**: Maxana
- **Domain**: maxanapay.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/maxana>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: D
- **Score**: 52
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0.8
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Rest API** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 254

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Argentina** — Iso: AR; Kind: country
- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country
- **Colombia** — Iso: CO; Kind: country
- **Costa Rica** — Iso: CR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T20:28:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.176
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 254
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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