I’m a FinTech backend engineer focused on embedded banking and payments, with 10+ years of experience building reliable banking API integrations and payment workflows. I work with systems that need to be traceable and consistent—covering webhook processing, idempotency, transaction-state tracking, ledger synchronization, and reconciliation across internal and external systems. I enjoy designing recoverable, failure-tolerant backend services using Go, Python, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka, especially where asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures are critical. From building ETL pipelines for authorized business/merchant data to hardening sandbox and integration behavior under concurrency and network failures, I aim to turn complex financial flows into dependable, auditable software.…

TOMAS STANKEVICIUS

I’m a FinTech backend engineer focused on embedded banking and payments, with 10+ years of experience building reliable banking API integrations and payment workflows. I work with systems that need to be traceable and consistent—covering webhook processing, idempotency, transaction-state tracking, ledger synchronization, and reconciliation across internal and external systems. I enjoy designing recoverable, failure-tolerant backend services using Go, Python, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka, especially where asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures are critical. From building ETL pipelines for authorized business/merchant data to hardening sandbox and integration behavior under concurrency and network failures, I aim to turn complex financial flows into dependable, auditable software.…

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I’m a FinTech backend engineer focused on embedded banking and payments, with 10+ years of experience building reliable banking API integrations and payment workflows. I work with systems that need to be traceable and consistent—covering webhook processing, idempotency, transaction-state tracking, ledger synchronization, and reconciliation across internal and external systems.

I enjoy designing recoverable, failure-tolerant backend services using Go, Python, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka, especially where asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures are critical. From building ETL pipelines for authorized business/merchant data to hardening sandbox and integration behavior under concurrency and network failures, I aim to turn complex financial flows into dependable, auditable software.

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FinTech Backend Engineer | Embedded Banking | Payments | Core Banking at SME
September 1, 2025 - Present
Develop Python ETL for authorized business and merchant data used in financial-data integration workflows. Integrate commerce, payment, and ERP sources, validate and transform records into API-ready payloads. Implement data-quality checks, exception handling, and traceability for business-finance and credit-assessment workflows to ensure dependable, auditable data movement into downstream financial services.
Backend Engineer at Mano
December 1, 2023 - September 30, 2025
Build webhook-driven transaction-processing workflows and asynchronous event handling for banking integrations. Implement duplicate-event detection, idempotency, retry logic, and recovery paths for interrupted or repeated event deliveries. Support reconciliation between internal financial records and external transaction updates, including testing concurrency and failure scenarios to keep transaction-state consistent.
FinTech Backend Developer at European Merchant Bank
October 1, 2019 - November 30, 2023
Develop middleware mapping application payloads to banking API formats for payment and banking-integration workflows. Work on SEPA/SWIFT-related payment integrations with transaction-state tracking and reconciliation support. Apply authentication, idempotency, and secure communication patterns where applicable, and participate in integration testing for dependable payment execution flows.
FinTech Backend Developer at SME
June 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019
Build Python ETL processes for authorized business and merchant data from commerce, payment, and ERP sources. Validate and transform financial records with data-quality checks and exception handling to improve traceability. Prepare structured data for API integrations and business-finance/credit-assessment workflows, focusing on accuracy and reliable data readiness.

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering at Vilnius Gedimimas Technical University
January 1, 2012 - September 30, 2016
AWS Certified Security - Specialty at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
January 1, 2026 - October 18, 2026
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) at ACAMS
July 1, 2024 - October 18, 2026
Wharton Online / University of Pennsylvania fintech program at Wharton Online
August 1, 2025 - October 18, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Security - Specialty
January 1, 2026 - October 18, 2026
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
July 1, 2024 - October 18, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet