Senior Backend Engineer - Low Latency

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Bitvavo, you join a rapidly growing engineering organisation making digital assets accessible to over one million users across Europe. You design and implement cutting-edge low latency services that enable seamless customer experience as the platform scales to handle tens of billions of digital assets traded annually.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and the team to craft highly performant, low latency and high throughput services
• Dive into technical challenges, building solutions to guarantee peak performance across systems with focus on measurements and benchmarking
• Actively participate in pivotal decisions on technology stacks and architecture
• Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in the production environment

What you bring

• 5+ years of development experience
• Firm understanding of low level JVM and OS concepts with a strong grasp on the language, preferably Kotlin
• Solid understanding of programming design patterns and principles

Nice to have

• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP and UDP
• Familiarity with libraries such as Aeron and/or Chronicle Queue
• Experience with event-driven microservices using Kafka
• Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud platforms, particularly AWS

What we offer

Bitvavo offers a market-competitive total rewards package. Visit the Life at Bitvavo page to learn more about benefits and compensation.

About Bitvavo

Bitvavo launched in 2018 as a digital assets trading platform bridging traditional currencies and digital assets. It has established itself as the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, with over one million users exchanging tens of billions of digital assets annually.