Bjak

Backend Developer (UK)

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1 month ago
London, United KingdomSenior

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 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 quickly and safely.
  • Improve existing systems by simplifying flows, removing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience in 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 between 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 should demonstrate personally building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in the UK with at least 3 days per week in the UK office
  • English is the main working language across global teams
  • Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within 1 week for strong candidates

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About Bjak

201-500 employees

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.