Senior Backend Engineer — Fintech Identity & Onboarding

BVNK; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work policy

Growth-oriented culture

Flexible holidays

Travel to offices worldwide

Open and creative environment

Job summary

BVNK is expanding its Onboarding & Identity team to power a compliant, scalable BVNK account journey across EU/UK/US. You’ll design and operate JVM-based microservices, integrate with KYC/regtech providers, and build a robust platform using AWS/GCP/Azure with Docker and Kubernetes.

Expect collaboration with product, IDV, and Salesforce teams, in a hybrid/remote setting. The role emphasizes high automation, strong coding discipline, and delivering secure onboarding experiences for hundreds of

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a backend software engineer with Java/Kotlin (JVM-based).
• Designing, building, and operating microservices in distributed systems.
• Relational DBs (PostgreSQL) and event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS/SNS).
• Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure-as-code and modern CI/CD practices.
• Observability, reliability tooling, logging, metrics and tracing.
• Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows and collaboration.
• Strong communication and pragmatic, non-over-engineered problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product for efficient iteration in Embedded Payments and Onboarding squads.
• Maintain simple yet effective engineering approaches across projects.
• Ensure future-proof product design and sustainability.
• Integrate Salesforce with engineering practices and teams.
• Partner with ID&V and RegTech vendors to embed regulatory tech solutions.
• Keep engineering practices compliant and up-to-date in onboarding capabilities.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Microservices

PostgreSQL

Kafka

SQS/SNS

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Jira/Confluence

Git workflows

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

BVNK is expanding its Onboarding & Identity team to power a compliant, scalable BVNK account journey across EU/UK/US. You’ll design and operate JVM-based microservices, integrate with KYC/regtech providers, and build a robust platform using AWS/GCP/Azure with Docker and Kubernetes.

Expect collaboration with product, IDV, and Salesforce teams, in a hybrid/remote setting. The role emphasizes high automation, strong coding discipline, and delivering secure onboarding experiences for hundreds of