EMV Smartcard Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver technical expertise and product knowledge to sales teams and customers through presentations, demonstrations, and training sessions.
• Conduct customer visits to provide consulting and training on technical solutions and offerings.
• Cook up coordination between internal departments (R&D, Tech Support, Sales, and Production) to manage customer-initiated new product development projects.
• Ensure alignment and timely execution of all technical deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Act as a technical backup to other team members by providing documentation, guidance, and training to support internal stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Serve as the technical lead for EMV product development, including chip profile definition, key management, and chip personalization specification.
• Maintain direct technical relationships with customer and partner organizations at various levels.
• Provide end-to-end technical involvement across internal departments and external entities (e.g. Visa, Mastercard) from solution proposal through deployment, ensuring security compliance and robust key management.
• Deliver training sessions on products and solutions; contribute to proposal and tender documentation.
• Offer consultancy, change management support, and troubleshooting for customer production issues and technical inquiries.
• Oversee and implement key management protocols and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 (or more) years of experience in JavaCard firmware development.
• Self-driven, hands-on technology professional with strong analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Ability to understand customer and industry needs and translate them into actionable technical solutions and product plans.
• Exceptional organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a results-oriented approach.
• Effective at managing multiple high-priority tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), and presentation skills.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Proficiency in French is desirable.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Proficient in Smart Card technologies such as Java Card, MULTOS, and EMV.
• Understanding of cryptographic methods including symmetric/asymmetric encryption (DES, 3DES, RSA).
• Experience with payment Smart Card services is highly desirable.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on consistency and accuracy.
• Capable of working independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.