Backend Engineer, Pay & Card — Remote Internship

Lever, Inc.; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 39,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-from-home arrangement

Job summary

Binance is seeking a Backend Engineer intern for the Pay & Card team to build and scale backend services powering crypto and fiat payments globally. You will work with engineers, product managers, and QA to deliver reliable, secure payment workflows and high-throughput transaction systems.

Current university students or recent graduates will gain hands-on experience in distributed architectures, REST APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure while contributing to security and observability

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and CS fundamentals.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, C++, Python) and knowledge of SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services powering Binance Pay and Card products.
• Build scalable APIs and microservices for payment processing and merchant services.
• Participate in distributed systems with high-volume, latency-sensitive transactions.
• Work with databases, caches, queues, and infrastructure to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement robust transaction workflows with retries, idempotency, and concurrency handling.
• Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, tracing and root-cause analysis.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Contribute to improvements in reliability, observability, security, and engineering practices.

Skills

Programming fundamentals

Backend languages (Go/Java/C/C++)

REST APIs

Strong communication

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Binance is seeking a Backend Engineer intern for the Pay & Card team to build and scale backend services powering crypto and fiat payments globally. You will work with engineers, product managers, and QA to deliver reliable, secure payment workflows and high-throughput transaction systems.

Current university students or recent graduates will gain hands-on experience in distributed architectures, REST APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure while contributing to security and observability