Binance Accelerator Program - Backend Engineer, Pay & Card

Australia

Full-time

Remote

New Grad

Binance is a global blockchain ecosystem serving cryptocurrency, payments, and digital asset users worldwide. The Backend Engineer on the Pay & Card team will develop secure, scalable backend systems for crypto and fiat payment experiences, including APIs, microservices, distributed transaction systems, and financial workflows. The role also involves troubleshooting production issues, writing tested code, collaborating cross-functionally, and improving reliability, observability, security, and engineering practices.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services supporting Binance Pay and Card products
Build scalable APIs and microservices for payment processing, transaction management, merchant services, and related financial workflows
Participate in the development of distributed systems handling high-volume and latency-sensitive transactions
Work with databases, caching systems, message queues, and other infrastructure components to improve system performance and reliability
Implement robust transaction workflows with appropriate handling for retries, idempotency, concurrency, and failure scenarios
Assist with troubleshooting production issues through logs, metrics, tracing, and root-cause analysis
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Contribute to improvements in system reliability, observability, security, and engineering practices

Qualification

Required

Current university students and recent graduates
Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and computer science fundamentals
Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language
Understanding of relational databases and SQL, including indexes, transactions, and database design fundamentals
Familiarity with RESTful APIs, HTTP, networking, and client-server architecture
Understanding of operating systems, concurrency, and common backend engineering concepts
Ability to write clear, maintainable code and reason systematically about technical problems
Strong communication skills and willingness to learn in a fast-moving engineering environment

Preferred

Familiarity with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or other message-queue technologies
Understanding of distributed-system concepts such as consistency, availability, replication, caching, asynchronous processing, and fault tolerance
Knowledge of payment concepts such as authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, reconciliation, chargebacks, and payment lifecycle management
Previous backend engineering internship, personal project, hackathon, or open-source experience
Interest in cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and payment infrastructure

Benefits

Networking and development opportunities as part of the Binance Accelerator Program
Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning
Company benefits
Work-from-home arrangement (the arrangement may vary depending on the work nature of the business team)

Binance is a blockchain ecosystem and digital asset exchange platform that provides a wide range of crypto-related services.

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