Payment processor and integrated billing platform for SaaS and merchant services
Stax Payments operates a multi-product payment stack—processing, recurring billing, and surcharging—built on AWS infrastructure (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis). The tech choices and project list reveal a security-first, compliance-heavy operation: active SOC 1 audit implementation, Infrastructure-as-Code security automation, and bi-annual card brand updates dominate the roadmap. Hiring leans engineering and support, signaling operational scale challenges in a complex distributed environment.
Stax Payments is a payments technology provider serving ISVs, ISOs, and SMB merchants. The company operates three product lines: Stax Connect (embedded payments for SaaS platforms), Stax Pay (direct merchant acceptance), and Stax Bill (automated recurring billing), plus CardX (surcharging with compliance tooling). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Orlando, Stax processes payments end-to-end and generates partner revenue through integrated APIs and mobile applications. The business faces ongoing challenges around card brand compliance cycles, distributed-system reliability, and support escalation volume.
AWS (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Athena, Glue, QuickSight), Terraform, AWS CDK, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, and mobile frameworks (iOS, Android, Kotlin, Swift).
Payment processing tool development, mobile app expansion (Stax Pay), public payment SDKs, payment terminal integrations, SOC 1 audit programs, security control automation via Infrastructure-as-Code, and compliance/risk mitigation tooling.
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