Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Onboarding
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Job description
Backend software engineer role in BVNK's Onboarding & Identity team, building the orchestration layer and APIs behind KYC/KYB, identity checks, sanctions and PEP screening, and automated customer risk assessment. The team serves direct businesses, embedded partners' end customers and nested customers of licensed partners.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Bulgaria · Spain · Poland
- Pay
- EUR 70,000 – 95,000 / year
What you'll do
- Collaborate closely with the product team to ensure efficient iteration and delivery of high-quality results in the Embedded Payments and Onboarding squad
- Have a pragmatic approach that prioritizes simplicity while maintaining effectiveness in all engineering projects
- Ensure products are engineered in a future-proof manner, emphasizing the sustainability of product design
- Facilitate the integration of Salesforce into engineering practices, working closely with Salesforce experts and engineers
- Collaborate with ID&V and RegTech vendors to infuse regulatory technology solutions into the engineering ecosystem
- Contribute to ensuring engineering practices remain compliant and up-to-date, strengthening Embedded Payments and Onboarding capabilities
What we're looking for
- Strong experience as a backend software engineer, with deep proficiency in languages such as Java, Kotlin or similar JVM-based languages
- Experience designing, building, and operating microservices in a distributed systems environment
- Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, SQS/SNS)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and modern software delivery practices (CI/CD)
- Experience with observability and reliability tooling including logging, metrics, tracing, and performance optimisation
- Comfortable working with Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows, and collaborative engineering practices
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering
Nice to have
- Experience working in fintech, payments, or banking infrastructure, particularly around fiat payment processing, clearing, or settlement
- Exposure to payment schemes, banking APIs, or multi-rail payment routing and orchestration
- Experience with stablecoin or cryptocurrency infrastructure and fiat-to-crypto bridging
- Understanding of domain-driven design and hexagonal architecture patterns
- Familiarity with reconciliation systems, idempotency patterns, and handling eventual consistency in financial workflows
- Experience working in high-growth or fast-scaling technology environments
- Experience contributing to engineering strategy, hiring, or organisational scaling initiatives
Your team
Onboarding & Identity team
Owns the whole journey that turns a prospective customer into a verified, compliant BVNK account, covering direct businesses, partners' end customers (embedded) and underlying customers of licensed partners (nested).
Benefits
- Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
- 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
- An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets
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About BVNK
The stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises
BVNK enables businesses to build financial products, unlock new markets, and move money in seconds across 130+ countries, with 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets globally. Processing billions annually, it empowers enterprises to send, receive, convert, and settle stablecoins and fiat seamlessly through a single integration. BVNK is now part of Mastercard.
Mission
To accelerate global money movement
Key facts
- Stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure / payments
- Part of Mastercard
- Enables money movement across 130+ countries
- 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets globally
- Processing billions annually
- Team spread across EMEA, North America, and APAC
- CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies (2026)
- FXC Intelligence Top 100 Cross-border Payment Companies (2026)
- Newsweek's The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces (three years running, most recently 2025)
- LinkedIn Top 20 Startups in the UK (2025)
Partners & customers