2 months ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, FX, KYC, and risk flows.
- Design reliable systems supporting customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
- Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
- Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features safely and quickly.
- Improve existing systems by simplifying workflows, reducing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with production systems.
- Understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
- Experience building services used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
- Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset.
- Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
- Fintech, payments, banking, wallet, KYC, fraud, or risk experience is preferred but not required.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates must already be based in Portugal.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement for candidates based in Portugal
- English is the main working language across global teams
- Fast interview process, with strong candidates potentially receiving an offer within one week of starting interviews
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About Bjak
Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.