Remote-First Backend Engineer (Java) for PIX Payments

Binance; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first, work-from-home

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Binance is seeking a hands-on Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Spring Boot services for PIX payment integrations and related Brazilian payment flows.

You will collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and other engineers to deliver reliable payment features from development through production, ensuring transaction consistency and high availability. Experience with PIX or Brazilian payments is a strong advantage.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on backend development experience with Java, preferably using Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, distributed systems, and database design.
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL; familiarity with caching, messaging systems, and asynchronous processing is a plus.
• Strong understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, transaction management, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Experience building and maintaining production systems, with the ability to independently investigate technical issues and deliver practical solutions.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and production monitoring tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership, and a willingness to get hands-on with coding, debugging, and operational troubleshooting.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot to support PIX payment integrations and related payment flows in Brazil.
• Implement and optimize payment processing capabilities, including payment initiation, transaction status management, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• Integrate with Brazilian banks, payment service providers, and external financial systems through APIs and other integration mechanisms.
• Build reliable, high-performance backend systems with a strong focus on transaction consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and system availability.
• Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions to improve system stability and performance.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, QA engineers, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver payment features from development through production deployment.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, participate in code reviews, and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of payment services.
• Support payment-related security, risk control, and compliance requirements in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

SQL

Caching

CI/CD

Git

Observability tools

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Monitoring tools

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Binance is seeking a hands-on Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Spring Boot services for PIX payment integrations and related Brazilian payment flows.

You will collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and other engineers to deliver reliable payment features from development through production, ensuring transaction consistency and high availability. Experience with PIX or Brazilian payments is a strong advantage.