Senior Backend Engineer - Securities Trading

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Securities Trading at Bitvavo, you collaborate with your Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and colleagues to craft high-quality software used by over one million customers. Bitvavo is the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Europe, handling tens of billions of digital assets exchanged annually. You'll drive innovation by designing and implementing cutting-edge services for the financial markets as the organisation scales.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and colleagues across the organisation to craft high-quality software used by customers
• Dive into technical challenges and build solutions to guarantee peak performance across systems
• Actively participate in pivotal decisions on technology stacks and architecture
• Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in the production environment

What you bring

• Experience with trading products in the retail space
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Expertise in event-driven microservices architecture, particularly with Kafka
• Strong proficiency in JVM languages, preferably Kotlin
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and a solid understanding of design patterns and programming principles

About Bitvavo

Bitvavo launched its digital assets trading platform in 2018 to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. The exchange is the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, serving over one million users who exchange tens of billions of digital assets annually.