Binance Accelerator Program - Backend Engineer, Pay & Card (Crypto Payments)

Location: Asia; work-from-home arrangement may vary depending on the business team's work

Company

Binance is a global blockchain ecosystem providing cryptocurrency trading, payments, financial infrastructure, and Web3 products.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services for Binance Pay and Card products.
• Build scalable APIs and microservices for payment processing, transaction management, merchant services, and financial workflows.
• Contribute to distributed systems handling high-volume and latency-sensitive transactions.
• Work with databases, caching systems, message queues, and infrastructure components to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement resilient transaction workflows with retries, idempotency, concurrency, and failure handling.
• Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, tracing, and root-cause analysis while participating in code reviews and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or recently graduated.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and computer science fundamentals.
• Proficiency in at least one backend 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, operating systems, concurrency, and client-server architecture.
• Ability to write maintainable code, reason systematically about technical problems, communicate clearly, and learn in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or other message-queue technologies.
• Understanding of distributed-system concepts including 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 internship, personal project, hackathon, or open-source experience.
• Interest in cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and payment infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Three-to-six-month accelerator internship for current university students and recent graduates.
• Networking, professional development, and hands-on experience in the digital-assets industry.
• Work with cross-functional teams in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
• Autonomy on fast-paced projects and opportunities for continuous learning and career growth.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.
• Work-from-home arrangement, subject to the nature of the business team's work.