Merchant payments platform spanning acquiring, APMs, accounts and card issuing
payabl. runs a modular merchant payments platform covering card acquiring, local payment methods, POS, business accounts and card issuing. Its stack shows a clear rewrite under way: PHP and Perl are being retired in favor of Python, FastAPI and asyncio microservices on AWS and Kubernetes, with the legacy payment gateway migration as the centerpiece. Hiring is accelerating and senior-heavy, concentrated in engineering, legal and security.
payabl. is a London-headquartered financial technology company founded in 2011 and privately held, with 201–500 employees. It serves merchants through payabl.one, a modular platform that combines card acquiring, hundreds of local payment methods, in-store and online payments, business accounts and virtual card issuing in a single view. The company handles payment flows across EU and UK schemes and runs banking settlement and correspondent account operations. Its hiring footprint spans the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Serbia and Czechia.
payabl. builds on Python, FastAPI, asyncio, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, running on AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, Glue, Athena) with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, Prometheus and Grafana.
Yes. Signals show payabl. replacing PHP, Perl and JavaScript, alongside a migration of its payment gateway to Python and a next-generation Python microservices platform.
payabl. hires in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Serbia and Czechia, mostly for senior engineering, legal and security roles.
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