FinTech

NexaPay

Real-Time Global Payment Infrastructure

ClientNexaPay Inc.
Duration14 months
Team12 engineers
Year2023
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📋 Overview

NexaPay needed a ground-up payment infrastructure capable of processing millions of transactions daily across 40+ countries with sub-200ms latency, full PCI DSS compliance, and 99.99% uptime SLA. We designed and delivered every layer — from database sharding strategy to the merchant-facing dashboard.

⚠️ The Challenge

Their legacy monolith processed $800K/day but couldn't scale past that ceiling. Peak-hour failures were costing $120K per incident. The existing architecture had no multi-region support, settlement delays of 72+ hours, and a fraud detection system built on static rules that caught under 60% of fraudulent transactions.

💡 Our Solution

We re-architected the entire platform as event-driven microservices on AWS, introduced real-time fraud scoring with a custom ML model, built a distributed ledger for atomic cross-currency settlement, and deployed across 5 AWS regions with active-active failover. Merchants get a real-time analytics dashboard with customisable alerts.

Results That Speak

💰$2M+Daily Transaction Volume
99.99%Platform Uptime SLA
🚀180msAvg. Transaction Latency
🛡️94%Fraud Detection Accuracy
🌍40+Countries Supported
🔒0Security Incidents (18 mo.)

Key Features

Real-Time Settlement

Atomic cross-currency settlement in under 2 seconds using distributed ledger principles.

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ML Fraud Detection

Custom XGBoost model scoring every transaction in <15ms with 94% catch rate.

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Multi-Region Active-Active

5 AWS regions with automatic failover and zero data loss on regional outage.

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Merchant Analytics

Real-time revenue dashboards with custom alerts, chargeback tracking, and reconciliation.

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PCI DSS Level 1

Full Level 1 compliance with tokenisation, field-level encryption, and audit trails.

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REST + Webhook APIs

Versioned REST API with idempotency keys, webhook retries, and SDK support for 6 languages.

Technology Stack

Backend

Node.jsGoApache KafkagRPCRedis

Database

PostgreSQL (sharded)TimescaleDBRedis Cluster

ML / Fraud

PythonXGBoostAmazon SageMaker

Infrastructure

AWS EKSTerraformArgoCDDatadog

Frontend

Next.jsTypeScriptTanStack QueryRecharts

Project Timeline

01

Discovery & Architecture

6 weeks

Stakeholder interviews, load analysis, system design, tech stack decision, team onboarding.

02

Core Payment Engine

14 weeks

Event-driven microservices, Kafka pipelines, gRPC inter-service comms, PostgreSQL sharding.

03

Fraud & Compliance

10 weeks

ML model training, real-time scoring pipeline, PCI DSS audit preparation, pen testing.

04

Merchant Dashboard

8 weeks

Next.js frontend, real-time WebSocket feeds, reporting engine, white-label theming.

05

Global Rollout

6 weeks

Multi-region deployment, load testing to 10× peak, disaster recovery drills, go-live.

06

Optimisation & Handoff

12 weeks

Performance tuning, runbook authoring, team knowledge transfer, SLA monitoring setup.

Miraya Tech Lab didn't just build our payment system — they understood financial infrastructure deeply and made architectural decisions we're still benefiting from three years later. When we had a compliance audit, the auditors were genuinely impressed.
AR
Alex Rahman
CTO, NexaPay Inc.
★★★★★

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