Senior Backend Engineer - Virtual Accounts
About us:
BVNK provides modern payments infrastructure for businesses. We unify banks and blockchains in a single platform. With BVNK, businesses can send and receive stablecoin payments, convert between currencies and add stablecoin payments to their checkout. Using our flexible platform, and robust global licensing and compliance expertise, innovators can launch new payments products quickly and compliantly.
We are a diverse team spread across the UK, USA, Europe and Africa. We share the belief that blockchain technology presents a new base layer for global payments, where funds can move as freely as data moves on the internet.
We're incredibly honoured to have made Newsweek's list of The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2 years running (2023 and 2024).
About the role:
Location: We offer a Hybrid/Remote working policy which allows us to hire across EMEA.
FUNCTION: Engineering
We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our engineering teams and help build out our business account functionality.
The Virtual Account Squad develops and maintains solutions geared towards making it possible for our customers to Hold, Send, Receive and Exchange funds on the BVNK platform which they use to run their businesses. It's based on fiat banking services and provides our customers with the same functionalities you would expect from a business bank account like deposits and withdrawals. Customers receive unique IBANs in their own name which are registered on major payment schemes and operate as full bank accounts under an EMI License.
Our product and engineering organisation is split into small autonomous squads empowered to own their problem space. You’ll be expected to form strong opinions and execute in a fast but sustainable way, advocating for the simplest solution that achieves the outcomes our customers are looking for.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with our product team to iterate fast and deliver results
- Translate from technical to non-technical with stakeholders across the business
- Advocate for the simplest but most effective approach in everything we do
- Ensure our products are built in a future proof way
- Contribute to our engineering culture and standards to help us perform better
About you:
This role could be a great opportunity if you:
- Are passionate about the crypto currency space and are excited by the corporate opportunity we are pursuing
- Are excited by complex problems in a constantly evolving industry
- Are comfortable with a fast paced and often ambiguous environment
- Have experience working in Java
- Understanding of common design patterns and principles, and how/when to apply them
- Knowledge of at least one SQL or NoSQL database technology
- Are data driven, using analytical skills to make pragmatic decisions
Nice to have:
- Experience working in a FinTech environment
- Direct experience using frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Grails, JAX-RS / REST, OpenAPI
- Experience using Kubernetes & AWS EC2/VPC/ELB
What you can expect from us:
- Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
- Meaningful ownership in the business through our employee option scheme
- Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
- A culture built on passionate growth minded people
- A flexible approach to holiday
- Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world, in locations such as London and Cape Town, to collaborate with your colleagues
- An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, it’s culture, and it’s opportunity sets
At BVNK, we are focused on building a diverse and inclusive team. While you may not meet all of our requirements, we’d encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of our expectations. You may be a great fit for this role or another role in our team.