Java Backend Engineer, Global Travel Rule (GTR)

As a Java Backend Engineer focused on Global Travel Rule (GTR) compliance at Binance, you design and build backend services powering compliance and analytics products for the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. You work on unsolved problems where engineering and regulatory requirements converge, building systems used by exchanges, VASPs, and regulators globally.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs powering compliance and analytics products
• Own features end to end, from technical design through deployment and monitoring
• Build data pipelines that ingest, normalise, and index on-chain activity across multiple blockchains
• Contribute to the architecture of new compliance capabilities, shaping the approach rather than implementing pre-decided outcomes
• Model data and optimise queries against relational and NoSQL stores at scale
• Work directly with compliance and product specialists to translate regulatory requirements into technical design
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance of services already in production
• Use AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude Code or Codex as part of your normal workflow to raise output quality and speed

What you bring

• 3+ years building production backend systems in Java
• Strong command of Spring Boot, JVM fundamentals, concurrency, and memory behaviour
• Solid SQL and data modelling skills, with practical experience diagnosing slow queries
• Experience designing and operating web-facing services at scale, including request handling, caching, rate limiting, and idempotency
• Working proficiency in both Chinese and English, spoken and written
• Fluent, daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, with a clear view of where they help and where they need supervision
• Comfort owning code you did not write and reading unfamiliar codebases quickly
• Genuine interest in compliance and regulatory problems, and motivation to understand why rules exist, not only what they say

Nice to have

• A self-starting, exploratory mindset where you investigate problems before being asked and seek answers proactively
• A willingness to contribute to how the industry develops and to propose constructive improvements to design
• AWS production experience with ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Blockchain or crypto exposure, such as node RPC integration, on-chain data indexing, or wallet and transaction infrastructure
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms
• Prior work in a regulated environment such as financial services, payments, AML/KYC, or RegTech
• Familiarity with FATF Travel Rule, sanctions screening, or transaction monitoring concepts

What we offer

• Competitive salary and company benefits
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)

About Binance

Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users, trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries. The platform offers trading, finance, education, research, payments, institutional services, and more, with a mission to increase financial freedom and access globally.