Full Stack Engineer - KYC Tech (fully remote!)

Lever, Inc.; Singapore; Remote; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Binance Know Your Customer Technology Team is hiring experienced backend engineers to design, build and maintain scalable services for KYC verification, identity authentication and compliance workflows.

The role focuses on high-performance distributed systems, API design, and integration with third-party KYC/AML vendors, with opportunities to apply AI/ML models to production workflows in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting KYC verification, identity authentication, and compliance workflows.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance distributed systems capable of processing millions of global user verification requests.
• Build and optimise risk assessment pipelines and case management systems supporting compliance operations.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling and dashboards using React and TypeScript when needed, with a primary focus on backend engineering.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party KYC/AML vendors and internal data sources.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing, AI integration and security.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability and engineering efficiency through automation and best practices.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing and security.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code while conducting thoughtful code reviews.
• Continuously optimise system performance, scalability, throughput and developer experience.

Job description

About the team

Ready to revolutionize the onboarding experience? Join the Know Your Customer Technology Team at Binance, where we're building a state-of-the-art platform that ensures seamless customer onboarding. We're all about launching innovative products, integrating compliance vendors globally, and responsibly using AI/ML technologies. Be part of a team that's leading the charge in innovation and compliance in the fintech world!

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting KYC verification, identity authentication, and compliance workflows.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance distributed systems capable of processing millions of global user verification requests.
• Build and optimise risk assessment pipelines and case management systems supporting compliance operations.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling and dashboards using React and TypeScript when needed, with a primary focus on backend engineering.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party KYC/AML vendors and internal data sources.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing, AI integration and security.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability and engineering efficiency through automation and best practices.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing and security.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code while conducting thoughtful code reviews.
• Continuously optimise system performance, scalability, throughput and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience with a strong backend focus.
• Solid backend development experience with Java (Spring Boot), Go, or similar backend technologies.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models or LLM-powered tools into production systems - including model serving, inference pipelines, or AI-assisted automation workflows.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices at scale.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, caching technologies, message queues and distributed system fundamentals.
• Bilingual English/Mandarin is required to be able to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders.