Remote-First Backend Architect - Card Issuing & Payments

Binance; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Competitive salary & benefits

Job summary

Binance Pay & Card team is building scalable backend systems for card issuing and lifecycle management. You will design and implement secure architecture and ensure compliance with payment networks.

As a Backend Architect, you will lead cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and compliance, hands-on building critical services in Java/Spring, and drive reliability and performance in a high-throughput environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Java / Spring expertise.
• Direct experience building or maintaining a card system.
• Experience with card certification processes and/or card onboarding programs.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, with experience in distributed systems and high-throughput payment infrastructure.
• Understanding of card network standards, payment flows, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain backend systems for card issuing and card lifecycle management
• Lead the technical design and implementation of card certification processes (Visa, MasterCard, Apple Pay / Google Pay onboarding programs)
• Define and drive the system architecture, service boundaries, and integration patterns for card platform services
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and compliance with payment network standards
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and technical documentation for the team
• Work hands-on — this is a builder role, not a pure advisory position

Skills

Backend engineering

Java/Spring

Card systems

System design

Payment network standards

Job description

Binance Pay & Card team is building scalable backend systems for card issuing and lifecycle management. You will design and implement secure architecture and ensure compliance with payment networks.

As a Backend Architect, you will lead cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and compliance, hands-on building critical services in Java/Spring, and drive reliability and performance in a high-throughput environment.