Java Backend Engineer (Global Travel Rule)

Location: Hong Kong or Singapore; remote-first, work-from-home arrangement may vary depending on the role and team

Company

Binance operates a global blockchain and digital-asset ecosystem spanning trading, finance, payments, institutional services, education, and research.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs for compliance and analytics products.
• Own features from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and production operation.
• Build data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and index on-chain activity across multiple blockchains.
• Contribute to the architecture of new compliance capabilities and translate regulatory requirements into technical designs with compliance and product specialists.
• Model data and optimize queries across relational and NoSQL databases at scale.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of production services while using AI-assisted development tools in the daily workflow.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building production backend systems in Java.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, JVM fundamentals, concurrency, memory behavior, SQL, and data modeling.
• 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.
• Daily hands-on use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, with the ability to supervise their output.
• Ability to take ownership of unfamiliar codebases and genuine interest in compliance products and regulatory requirements.

Nice to have

• AWS production experience with ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM, or CloudWatch.
• Blockchain or crypto experience, including node RPC integration, on-chain data indexing, wallet, or transaction infrastructure.
• Kafka or similar streaming-platform experience.
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services, payments, AML/KYC, or RegTech.
• Knowledge of the FATF Travel Rule, sanctions screening, or transaction monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement, subject to the nature of the role and team.
• Global, user-centric organization with a flat structure and collaboration with international talent.
• Autonomy in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
• Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.