Cloud-native card issuing and ledger platform for banks and fintechs
Episode Six provides card issuing and ledger infrastructure on AWS, built on a Java/Spring core with ISO 8583 message handling and a polyglot data layer spanning Oracle, DB2, Cassandra and MongoDB. Hiring skews senior and engineering-led across Asia-Pacific and the US, while job posts center on Visa scheme certification and compliance timing, suggesting card-network certification is a gating bottleneck for client launches.
Episode Six is an Austin, TX-based, privately held company founded in 2015 with 201–500 employees. It sells payments infrastructure to banks, fintechs and brands that want to launch credit, debit, prepaid, commercial and multi-currency card programs, along with virtual accounts, wallets, installment lending and rewards. The platform runs across multiple AWS regions and serves customers in many markets. Its teams hire in the United States, Japan, India, Australia, Singapore and China.
Episode Six runs on AWS with EKS and Kubernetes, a Java, Spring and Hibernate backend, ISO 8583 card messaging, databases including Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Cassandra and MongoDB, Terraform for infrastructure, and React with TypeScript on the front end.
Episode Six is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and hires across the United States, Japan, India, Australia, Singapore and China.
Job posts point to Visa GTAQ certification work, client implementation support for card programs, and improving internal processes, alongside managing card scheme certifications and compliance deadlines.
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