3 months ago
Vienna, AustriaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, FX, KYC, and risk flows.
- Design reliable systems for real 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 flows, reducing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience working with production systems.
- Good 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 make practical trade-offs among 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 Austria.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement for candidates based in Austria
- English is the main working language across global teams
- Interview process may be completed and an offer made within one week
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About Bjak
Bjak builds an online insurance marketplace for consumers in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, enabling comparison and purchase of car, health, life, and travel policies. Its business model is aggregator-based, earning commissions and fees from insurers and partners while streamlining digital applications and renewals. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Selangor, it is privately held and is expanding from insurance comparison into broader fintech services via a planned finance super app.