Binance

Java Backend Engineer, Global Travel Rule (GTR)

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over 1 year ago
Sydney, Australia +7 moreMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for compliance and analytics products.
  • Own features from technical design through deployment and monitoring.
  • Build pipelines that ingest, normalize, and index on-chain activity across multiple blockchains.
  • Contribute to the architecture of new compliance capabilities.
  • Model data and optimize queries against relational and NoSQL stores at scale.
  • Translate regulatory requirements into technical designs with compliance and product specialists.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of production services.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools in the regular engineering workflow.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production backend systems in Java.
  • Strong command of Spring Boot, JVM fundamentals, concurrency, and memory behavior.
  • Solid SQL and data-modeling skills, including diagnosing slow queries.
  • Experience designing and operating web-facing services at scale, including request handling, caching, rate limiting, and idempotency.
  • Working proficiency in spoken and written Chinese and English.
  • Daily experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, with sound judgment about their supervision.
  • Ability to take ownership of unfamiliar codebases and read them quickly.
  • Preferred: AWS production experience with ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
  • Preferred: blockchain or crypto experience, including node RPC integration, on-chain data indexing, wallet infrastructure, or transaction infrastructure.
  • Preferred: Kafka or similar streaming-platform experience.
  • Preferred: experience in regulated environments such as financial services, payments, AML/KYC, or RegTech.
  • Preferred: familiarity with the FATF Travel Rule, sanctions screening, or transaction monitoring.
  • Preferred: self-starting, exploratory approach and willingness to challenge designs constructively.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and company benefits.
  • Work-from-home arrangement, which may vary depending on the nature of the business team.
  • Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
  • Collaboration with global talent in a flat, user-centric organization.
  • Autonomous work on innovative, fast-paced projects.

Tech Stack

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BackendData Engineering
Binance

About Binance

10,000+ employees

Binance builds a global cryptocurrency exchange and related infrastructure for retail and institutional traders, developers, and businesses. Its products include spot and derivatives trading, fiat on-ramps, wallets, payments, staking, custody, and Web3/NFT services, with revenue driven largely by trading and transaction fees. Founded in 2017 and privately held, it operates worldwide and also stewards the BNB Chain ecosystem, with its main exchange regularly ranking first by crypto trading volume.

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