Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join BVNK, a modern payment infrastructure company unifying banks and blockchains, as a Software Engineer. You will play a pivotal role in building seamless cross-border payments involving crypto and fiat currencies, overcoming challenges to ensure smooth trading processes and streamlined liquidity management. This role requires collaboration with product and trading teams, building integrations with crypto exchanges, and translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. BVNK offers a hybrid/remote working policy, competitive salary, employee option scheme, flexible working hours, flexible holiday approach, and opportunities for international collaboration.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a senior backend developer in a trading-focused or similar role, preferably in the FinTech or crypto industry
• Expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with the ability to deliver highly performant, scalable, high-throughput solutions
• Experience in building and maintaining APIs and services in the trading domain
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills and thrives in both independent and collaborative settings
• Strong understanding of financial markets, trading platforms, and crypto exchanges, including concepts like orderbooks, market data, and execution strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the product and trading teams to design, develop, and deliver high-performance trading services
• Build and maintain integrations with various crypto exchanges such as Kraken
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders across the business
• Advocate for reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Contribute to and enhance the engineering culture, standards, and best practices, driving excellence across the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with distributed ledger technology or blockchain is a plus
• Applies a data-driven approach to decision-making, leveraging analytics to optimize trading operations
• Comfortable working with trading-related technologies, protocols (e.g., WebSocket, FIX API), and frameworks
• Brings a proactive, results-oriented mindset, with a passion for building best-in-class applications

Benefits

• Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
• Meaningful ownership in the business through our employee option scheme
• Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
• A culture built on passionate growth-minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world, in locations such as London and Cape Town, to collaborate with your colleagues
• An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets