CuralabelTechnologies
Fintech

Rebuilding payment rails for scale and trust

3x throughput, 99.97% uptime, 60% fewer failed payments.

Client
NovaPay
Industry
Fintech
Timeline
9 months
Team size
6 people

The challenge

NovaPay's monolithic payment system was failing under peak load, with transaction error rates above 4% during promotional events.

Compliance gaps with PCI-DSS slowed enterprise sales, and the team had no real-time visibility into fraud patterns.

Our approach

We rebuilt the platform on a microservices architecture in Node.js running on AWS, with an event-driven core for transactions.

A real-time fraud detection layer powered by TensorFlow Lite scored every transaction in under 80ms, and the entire system was hardened to PCI-DSS Level 1.

Architecture
[ Clients ] → [ API Gateway ] → [ Microservices ]
                                       ↓
                                  [ Event Bus ]
                                       ↓
                              [ Data Layer + Cache ]
Outcomes

The results

99.97%
Uptime SLA
3x
Transaction throughput
60%
Fewer failed payments
<80ms
Fraud scoring latency

Technology stack

Node.jsReactPostgreSQLAWS LambdaStripeTensorFlow Lite

Team structure

Tech Lead4× Backend2× FrontendDevOpsQAML Engineer

"CuraLabel didn't just deliver — they made our platform something enterprise customers trust."

Anika Rao
VP Engineering, NovaPay