Senior Backend Engineer — Crypto Payments Orchestration

BVNK; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working policy

Travel opportunities

Open and creative environment

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

BVNK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Crypto Payments Orchestration team. You will design and scale high-throughput backend services that manage crypto pay-ins, pay-outs, and transfers, with modular APIs for merchants and partners.

You will own production services, implement idempotency and event-driven workflows, and collaborate across product, compliance, and operations. AI-native tooling is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience building production systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Java (17+) and Spring Boot; Kotlin a plus.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven patterns.
• Solid database design with MySQL/PostgreSQL; caching with Redis a plus.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with financial/f payments systems is a plus.
• Strong testing mindset and clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run high-throughput backend services for crypto payments.
• Develop clean public and internal APIs for merchants to use payments.
• Ensure idempotency, reliability and correct processing of events.
• Optimize performance and scale across assets and networks.
• Collaborate with product, compliance and operations on capabilities.
• Mentor others and apply AI-native approaches to coding and design.
• Own services in production, including monitoring and incident response.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Spring Boot

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Cloud & DevOps

Tools

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

BVNK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Crypto Payments Orchestration team. You will design and scale high-throughput backend services that manage crypto pay-ins, pay-outs, and transfers, with modular APIs for merchants and partners.

You will own production services, implement idempotency and event-driven workflows, and collaborate across product, compliance, and operations. AI-native tooling is encouraged.