Software Engineer (Backend): Trading

We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our team. Our goal is to build out seamless cross-border payments involving both crypto and fiat currencies. This role is pivotal in helping us overcome the challenges to ensure smooth trading processes together with streamlining liquidity management and automation.

Traditional methods have often resulted in customers grappling with high transaction fees, lengthy delays, and the rigidity of having to choose between fiat and crypto transactions. With our innovative solution, we aim to break down these barriers by allowing a fluid interchange between crypto and fiat currencies. This hybrid solution will empower our customers to make international payments in their preferred format, whether it be entirely in crypto, entirely in fiat, or a mix of both. By enhancing the interoperability between these two transaction modes, we aim to accelerate transaction speed, reduce associated costs, and create a more user-friendly experience.

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.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the product and trading teams to design, develop, and deliver high-performance trading services.

• Build and maintain integrations with various crypto exchanges such as Kraken.

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders across the business.

• Advocate for reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

• Contribute to and enhance the engineering culture, standards, and best practices, driving excellence across the team.

• Proven experience as a senior backend developer in a trading-focused or similar role, preferably in the FinTech or crypto industry.

• Expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with the ability to deliver highly performant, scalable, high-throughput solutions.

• Experience in building and maintaining APIs and services in the trading domain.

• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills and thrives in both independent and collaborative settings.

• Strong understanding of financial markets, trading platforms, and crypto exchanges, including concepts like orderbooks, market data, and execution strategies.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Familiarity with distributed ledger technology or blockchain is a plus.

• Applies a data-driven approach to decision-making, leveraging analytics to optimize trading operations.

• Comfortable working with trading-related technologies, protocols (e.g., WebSocket, FIX API), and frameworks.

• Brings a proactive, results-oriented mindset, with a passion for building best-in-class applications.

• 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, its culture, and its 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.