Senior Digital Asset Platform Engineer

Engineer services behind Bitvavo’s digital asset platform with Kafka, Kubernetes, and JVM languages. Contribute to systems serving more than one million users.

This Senior Backend Engineer position focuses on building dependable software as Bitvavo expands its assets and customer base. You will work with engineering leaders and colleagues, solve performance challenges, influence architecture, and participate in production operational rotations. Candidates should bring retail trading product experience, eight or more years of software development, and Kotlin capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Craft high-quality software for digital asset customers
• Build solutions that guarantee peak system performance
• Help determine technology stacks and architecture
• Collaborate across Bitvavo’s engineering organisation
• Participate in production incident response rotations

Requirements:

• Eight or more years of software development experience
• Retail trading product experience
• Event-driven microservices expertise, particularly with Kafka
• Strong JVM language proficiency, preferably Kotlin
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and programming principles

Use backend engineering, event-driven architecture, and trading expertise to strengthen Bitvavo’s growing digital asset infrastructure.