Tech Lead (Backend): Billing & Fees

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, including experience leading technical initiatives or providing technical leadership to other engineers
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex, distributed, production-grade systems, with strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS), relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching technologies such as Redis
• Experience working on financially sensitive systems, such as billing, invoicing, payments, ledger, fee calculation or reconciliation platforms
• Strong architectural expertise, including domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, service decomposition, bounded contexts and asynchronous communication patterns
• Demonstrated ability to own technical architecture and drive engineering decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, delivery timelines and business requirements
• Strong API design experience, including building and evolving RESTful APIs, managing backwards compatibility, and creating reliable integration patterns
• Solid understanding of financial data integrity, including transactional consistency, idempotency, error recovery and reconciliation in distributed environments
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineers through technical design, code reviews, problem-solving and complex delivery challenges
• Strong production ownership mindset, with experience operating business-critical systems, participating in on-call rotations, managing incidents and using observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus and Micrometer
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and modern software delivery practices
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Finance and Commercial teams in a distributed, remote-first environment
• Comfortable being both a hands-on engineer and a technical leader

Billing & Fees subdomain, Ledger domain

Billing & Fees sits at the heart of how BVNK monetises its products and services; the team ensures every transaction is billed accurately, fees are applied correctly, and invoices can be generated, reconciled and audited with confidence.

• 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