Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Binance.US is America’s home to buy, trade, and earn digital assets. As a licensed and regulated U.S. crypto platform, we provide secure, reliable access to more than 190 of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies, all with some of the lowest fees in the industry. We’re a remote-first team of innovators building the bridge between traditional finance and Web3, helping bring financial freedom within reach for all. To learn more, visit www.binance.us. All roles supporting Binance.US are employed via BAM Management US Holdings Inc. or BAM Management Canada Holdings Inc.

The Staff Software Engineer, Backend is part of the Engineering team and reports to our Head of Engineering. As Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will be responsible for driving backend service development and leading the modernization of our technology stack. You will also partner with product, security, infrastructure, and compliance teams to build scalable, high-performing services that support our broader platform initiatives.

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  Architect, design, implement, and maintain high-throughput backend services using Java and Spring Boot frameworks.

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  Lead the modernization of our technology stack: identify technical debt, propose upgrade paths, manage migrations, and improve system observability, monitoring, and tooling.

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  Collaborate with cross-functional groups (product, security, DevOps/infrastructure, compliance) to ensure services meet business needs, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence.

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  Set and enforce high engineering standards: code quality, test coverage, performance optimization, scalability, resiliency, and observability.

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  Mentor and guide other engineers: provide technical leadership, review designs and code, promote best practices and knowledge sharing across the team.

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  Participate in architecture discussions, drive decisions around microservices, API design, data layer strategy, caching, messaging, high-availability systems, and cloud infrastructure.

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  Proactively identify bottlenecks or areas for improvement, propose and implement solutions to improve reliability, performance, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.

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  Balance feature delivery with infrastructure evolution: ensure that new functionality is built on maintainable, future-proof foundations.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent work experience).

• 10+ years of professional backend development experience (or equivalent) with deep hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot.

• Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade microservices and APIs at scale.

• Strong understanding of backend system architecture: messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching (Redis, Memcached), relational and NoSQL databases, distributed systems, service discovery, resiliency patterns, and performance tuning.

• Experience driving migrations and technology-stack upgrades: identifying legacy systems, defining roadmap, executing cut-over, ensuring minimal disruption.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, logging/monitoring/alerting tools.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to operate effectively across a fast-moving, regulated environment (finance/crypto) with security, compliance, and product teams.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor peers and raise the technical bar of an engineering organization.

• Experience in the fintech or crypto/blockchain domain.

• Prior work in highly regulated industries or systems with strong security/compliance constraints.

• Exposure to performance/latency sensitive systems (e.g., trading, real-time processing).

• Contributions to open-source or developer tooling.

The starting pay range for this role will vary, and is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skill sets, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change.