Estonian-licensed card issuer and embedded finance platform for EEA payments
Wallester is a Visa-licensed Estonian fintech running distributed infrastructure (Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis) across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The stack shows strong systems maturity — service-oriented architecture, event streaming patterns (Linkerd mesh), and observability depth (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch). Hiring skews heavily technical (20 engineers, 4 designers, 3 product) with senior-level concentration (24 of 57 open roles), reflecting a company scaling payment infrastructure and tackling technical debt alongside compliance complexity.
Notable leadership hires: QA Team Lead, Chief Legal Officer
Wallester is an Estonian-licensed financial institution and Visa partner (since 2018) offering embedded finance and card issuance to companies across the EEA and UK. The product surface splits into two areas: a white-label platform enabling businesses to launch branded payment cards within their own apps, and Wallester Business, a corporate expense-management tool providing virtual and physical Visa cards, spend analytics, and accounting integrations. The company operates across Estonia, Latvia, France, and the United Kingdom with over 200 employees. Revenue-generating products focus on streamlining payment workflows and opening new revenue streams for clients through card programs and embedded financial services.
Go, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Linkerd, AWS/Azure/GCP, with C#, Java, JavaScript, Python for platform services. Observability via Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch; CI/CD via GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
Kesklinna linnaosa, Harju County, Estonia. Operations span Estonia, Latvia, France, and the United Kingdom.
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