Backend Engineer Needed to Integrate Multiple Payment Gateways
Skills Required
Description
Handling multiple payment gateways requires not only technical expertise but also careful planning to ensure smooth, secure, and fast transactions. Integrating them seamlessly helps businesses expand their customer reach.
When building such integrations, error handling becomes a major priority. Failed transactions, declined cards, and API timeouts must all be managed gracefully to protect user trust.
Developers working with Stripe and similar APIs must maintain compliance with PCI-DSS standards. This ensures data security and avoids liabilities associated with handling sensitive financial details.
Performance is equally important. Payment requests should be processed within milliseconds, and APIs must be optimized to avoid delays during checkout.
A well-structured backend ensures that payments are logged accurately in MySQL databases. This allows for proper tracking, auditing, and reconciliation later.
Security tokens, webhooks, and encrypted data transfer all play a role in making integrations safe and compliant.
One of the challenges is handling multiple currencies. This requires implementing currency conversion and exchange rate syncing without introducing errors.
Fraud prevention measures, such as rate-limiting requests or integrating third-party fraud detection systems, also add another layer of protection.
Node.js and Express provide the speed and flexibility needed to build APIs that can handle mu...