Tech Lead (Backend): Billing & Fees

The role

You will lead the technical direction and delivery of the Billing & Fees subdomain within the Ledger domain. You will shape the architecture and technical roadmap for the billing platform and lead the development of services for fee configuration, calculation, invoicing, and reconciliation.

What you will do

• Define and drive the architecture, technical strategy and engineering roadmap for billing services
• Architect and build services for fee policy configuration, calculation, invoice generation, adjustments and reconciliation
• Design robust data pipelines and integrations connecting Snowflake, Salesforce, Ledger and internal financial services
• Establish engineering patterns for financial correctness, including idempotency, traceability and audit trails
• Drive technical design submissions, architecture reviews and service design
• Design, build and review production code
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance
• Partner with Product, Finance, Commercial, Back Office, Ledger, Digital Assets and Fiat teams
• Establish standards for observability, monitoring, performance and incident response
• Set expectations for testing, CI/CD, documentation and technical debt management

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Experience leading technical initiatives or providing technical leadership to other engineers
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex, distributed, production-grade systems
• 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
• Strong API design experience including building and evolving RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of financial data integrity, including transactional consistency, idempotency, error recovery and reconciliation
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineers
• Strong production ownership mindset with experience operating business-critical systems and participating in on-call rotations

Benefits

• Fair and competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• A culture built on passionate, growth-minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world

About the company

BVNK is building stablecoin-native infrastructure to accelerate global money movement. The company facilitates transactions for enterprise clients and has received strategic investment from Visa.