Software Engineer

Summary

Join BVNK, a modern payment infrastructure provider 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, streamlined liquidity management, and automation. This role involves collaborating with the product team, translating technical information to non-technical stakeholders, advocating for simple yet effective solutions, and developing future-proof products. The ideal candidate possesses proven backend development experience in FinTech, expertise in Java and Spring Boot, and a good understanding of financial services. BVNK offers a hybrid/remote working policy, competitive salary, employee option scheme, flexible working hours, flexible holiday approach, and opportunities for international travel.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solid Backend Developer in a similar role, preferably in the FinTech industry
• Expertise in Java and Spring Boot
• Experience in building and maintaining APIs and services
• Excellent problem-solving skills, able to work independently or in a team
• Good understanding of financial services, particularly in banking, payments or crypto
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our product team to iterate fast and deliver results
• Translate from technical to non-technical with stakeholders across the business
• Advocate for the simplest but most effective approach in everything we do
• Develop future-proof products, focusing on delivering quality code consistently and efficiently
• Contribute to our engineering culture and standards to help us perform better

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with distributed ledger technology or blockchain is a plus
• Are data-driven, using analytical skills to make pragmatic decisions
• Open to participate in out of hours on call rota

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