Senior Backend Python Engineer (APM Gateway) - Relocation to Cyprus at payabl

Department: IT

Setup: Remote - UK
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 17, 2026

Description

The Backend Engineer will support and extend a Perl-based payment gateway while designing and building high-performance Python microservices. The role involves modernizing legacy systems, integrating third-party payment APIs, improving CI/CD and AWS infrastructure, troubleshooting production issues, and mentoring engineers. It requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong Python expertise, distributed-systems knowledge, API reliability expertise, cloud and containerization experience, and English proficiency. The position is onsite in Cyprus with relocation support.

Required Skills

Python
FastAPI
AsyncIO
Distributed Systems
API Integration
AWS
Docker
Event-Driven Architecture
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Perl

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of backend engineering experience with deep Python expertise
Experience working with Perl production code
Experience building and scaling microservices and high-throughput systems
Experience integrating third-party APIs and managing webhooks, callbacks, idempotency, and retry policies
Experience with Docker and AWS cloud infrastructure
Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems
Experience owning features from design through production and mentoring engineers
Preferred Qualifications: FastAPI and AsyncIO
Perl experience
Translation Company Name: payabl.