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If you've spent the last few years doing serious payments work inside a big business and you're starting to wonder whether the salary is worth the politics, this might be worth three minutes of your time.

Here's the situation.

A profitable Australian fintech, bootstrapped, no VC, genuinely good margins, is adding a senior engineer to their payments platform team. They build payment gateway technology used by real businesses across Australia, and they're now investing in the people who'll help them take it global.

The work is technically interesting. You'd be working on .NET Core and AWS, including a greenfield integration project and a substantial rewrite, inside a PCI compliance environment. The team is small, distributed, and good. There's no layer of middle management between you and the people making decisions.

Why it might be worth considering a move.

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