Senior Backend Engineer: Crypto Payments Orchestration

BVNK; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid work policy

Travel opportunities

Job summary

BVNK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Crypto Payments Orchestration team. You will design and run high-throughput backend services that enable crypto pay-ins, pay-outs and transfers across fiat and stablecoins, with modular, scalable architecture.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and AI-native approaches, in a hybrid/remote setup across global teams. You will work closely with Wallets, Ledger and Compliance teams to ensure correct, auditable money movement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field (if stated).
• Proven backend engineering experience at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot with modern Java features.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate high-throughput backend services for crypto payments orchestration.
• Develop clean, versioned public and internal APIs for merchants and partners.
• Ensure reliability with idempotency, transactional outbox and robust retries.
• Optimize performance and scalability for growing payment volumes.
• Collaborate with Product, Compliance and Operations to deliver end-to-end payment capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and promote AI-native tooling and practices.

Skills

Backend development

Java (17+)

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Java 17

Spring Boot

Kafka

SQS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

BVNK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Crypto Payments Orchestration team. You will design and run high-throughput backend services that enable crypto pay-ins, pay-outs and transfers across fiat and stablecoins, with modular, scalable architecture.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and AI-native approaches, in a hybrid/remote setup across global teams. You will work closely with Wallets, Ledger and Compliance teams to ensure correct, auditable money movement.