BVNK

BVNK unifies banks and blockchains in a single platform, so innovators can launch new payments products quickly.

101-250 employees
Founded 2021
$40.1M series a
IT Infrastructure
Private Company

Open Positions4

South Africa, Bulgaria, Poland, SpainFull-TimeFintech PaymentsPosted
  • Define and drive the technical architecture for the cards platform (card issuing, tokenization, transaction processing, settlement).
  • Act as the primary technical decision-maker within the squad.
  • 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 (card issuance, transactions, settlements, compliance).
  • Contribute hands-on to the codebase through development, debugging, optimisation, 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.
  • Partner with Product and Business on prioritisation, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
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About BVNK

BVNK is transforming global finance by building stablecoin-native infrastructure that unifies traditional banking and blockchain. You will join a company dedicated to accelerating global money movement, making transactions instant and cost-effective across borders. Serving enterprise clients like Worldpay, Deel, LianLian Global, and Rapyd, BVNK facilitates billions in transactions. They provide businesses with a flexible platform to send and receive stablecoin payments, convert between currencies, and integrate crypto payments into their checkout processes. BVNK's robust global licensing and compliance expertise empowers innovators to launch new payment products quickly and compliantly. BVNK also recently launched Layer1, an embedded wallet unifying fiat and stablecoins, allowing businesses to directly access blockchain and traditional payment systems like SWIFT and ACH on a single platform.

How We Work

At BVNK, you'll discover a culture built on passionate, growth-minded people. They embrace a philosophy of "relentlessly resourceful," finding solutions to any obstacle through creativity and determination. The company encourages an open and creative environment where you can help shape its future and culture. You will collaborate with diverse teams regularly, pushing yourself with strong team support. BVNK believes in empowering every employee with AI, maintaining speed while upholding bank-level security standards. They have successfully scaled enterprise AI by focusing on thoughtful context design, detailed specifications, data sovereignty, and robust guardrails, proving that security and speed can coexist.

Engineering at BVNK

As a Software Engineer at BVNK, you will contribute to building seamless cross-border payments involving both crypto and fiat currencies. You will tackle challenges in streamlining liquidity management and automation within the Fiat Processing Platform Squad. This squad develops and maintains solutions enabling customers to hold, send, receive, and exchange funds, providing functionalities similar to business bank accounts with unique IBANs. The product and engineering organization is structured into small, autonomous squads. This empowers you to own your problem space, form strong opinions, and execute in a fast, sustainable way, always advocating for the simplest yet most effective solution. Engineers at BVNK are focused on developing future-proof products, delivering quality code consistently, and contributing to the overall engineering culture and standards. The company utilizes a four-pillar framework for scaling AI, focusing on infrastructure cost management, specification-driven development, a dedicated security stack for data sovereignty and NDAs, and clear guardrails and access controls.

Why Join Us

  • Work on a mission to accelerate global money movement, bridging traditional finance and emerging digital assets.
  • Contribute to a rapidly growing company, recognized as a "Most Loved Workplace" and a top UK startup.
  • Experience meaningful ownership through an employee option scheme.
  • Collaborate with a diverse team across EMEA, North America, and APAC, with opportunities to travel to offices in London and Cape Town.
  • Shape the future of financial services by innovating with stablecoin-native infrastructure and AI-driven solutions.

Benefits & Perks

  • Fair and competitive salary.
  • Meaningful ownership through an employee option scheme.
  • Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart.
  • Flexible approach to holiday, with 25 days as standard.
  • Opportunities to travel to offices around the world, in locations such as London and Cape Town.
  • An open and creative environment.
  • Access to medical insurance.
  • Parental leave.

Tech Stack

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