Tech Lead (Backend): Cards

Founded in 2021, BVNK's mission is to accelerate global money movement by building stablecoin-native infrastructure that enables businesses to move value instantly across borders and networks. The company has global licenses and Tier 1 bank partnerships, facilitating billions in transactions for enterprise clients such as Worldpay, Deel, LianLian Global, and Rapyd. BVNK is a diverse team spread across EMEA, North America, and APAC, focused on transforming financial services through stablecoins. In 2025, BVNK secured strategic investment from Visa following a $50 million Series B round with multiple venture capital firms. The company has been recognized by Newsweek and LinkedIn for its workplace and startup status.

• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3–5+ years in senior or technical leadership roles.
• Proven track record designing and delivering complex, scalable systems such as microservices, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
• Experience acting as the primary technical decision-maker for a team or domain, including evaluating trade-offs, selecting technologies, and defining standards.
• Strong understanding of card payments, issuing programs, or transaction processing in a regulated environment.
• Enthusiasm for adopting AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Experience with PCI-DSS compliance or similar security/regulatory frameworks.
• Strong experience leading end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives across multiple sprints.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers through coaching, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, system integration patterns, and data modeling using SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability and reliability tooling including logging, metrics, tracing, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with crypto/fiat payment rails and issuer integrations is a plus.
• Open to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in high-growth or fast-scaling technology environments.
• Exposure to fintech, payments, or other high-availability transactional systems.
• Experience contributing to engineering strategy, hiring, or organizational scaling initiatives.

• Define and drive the technical architecture for the cards platform, including card issuing, tokenization, transaction processing, and settlement.
• Act as the primary technical decision-maker within the squad for card infrastructure components.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, compliant systems, APIs, and distributed services.
• Own the technical roadmap for cards engineering, aligning with product and business objectives.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple workstreams such as card issuance, transactions, settlements, and compliance.
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase through development, debugging, optimization, and code reviews.
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical coaching, pairing sessions, and constructive feedback.
• Promote engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and security.
• Lead technical assessments and integration design with third-party card providers, evaluating their APIs, security posture, and system capabilities.
• Remove technical blockers and make trade-off decisions to keep projects on track.
• Facilitate collaboration across squads and represent cards engineering in cross-organization technical forums.
• Partner with Product and Business on prioritization, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive operational excellence by improving monitoring, incident response, and deployment practices.