Nikau Lucas Edwards

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Engineering Manager at Arcadia Logistics · PCI DSS, Java

Arcadia Logistics
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
10+ years experience
HKUST
English
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Engineering Manager at Arcadia Logistics, focused on payments infrastructure. Took payment success rates from 95.4% to 96.2%. Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 40 a week to 4. Before that: Maybank and Telstra. I teach a weekend class on PCI DSS.

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JavaPCI DSSGodistributed systemsPostgreSQL
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Building out payments platform at Arcadia Logistics: frontend engineers wanted in Sydney

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$176k-$229k + equity
Team
Payments platform, 10 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with PCI DSS Production experience with Go Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp S$117k-S$238k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Arcadia Logistics · 7 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Led the migration of 23 services to Java.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Mar 2026
    Maybank · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 374ms to 103ms.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2023
    Telstra · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 2.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
    LINE · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Wrote the PCI DSS service that now handles 8 million requests a day.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
    DBS Bank · 3 yr · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Wrote the distributed systems service that now handles 29 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. HKUST
    BEng, Electrical Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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