Java Backend Engineer, Global Travel Rule (GTR)

About the role

Binance is looking for a Java Backend Engineer to build and maintain the backend services and RESTful APIs that power its compliance and analytics products, including the Global Travel Rule. You will own features end to end, from technical design through deployment and monitoring, and work closely with compliance and product specialists to turn regulatory requirements into technical design.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs for compliance and analytics products
• Build data pipelines that ingest, normalise and index on-chain activity across multiple blockchains
• Contribute to the architecture of new compliance capabilities
• Model data and optimise queries against relational and NoSQL stores at scale
• Improve reliability, observability and performance of services already in production
• Use AI-assisted development tooling as part of your normal workflow

Required profile

• 3+ years building production backend systems in Java
• Fluent, daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, with a clear view of where they help and where they need supervision
• Comfortable owning code you did not write and reading unfamiliar codebases quickly
• Genuine interest in the problem space, including compliance products
• Preferred: self-starting, exploratory mindset; willingness to challenge designs and propose improvements; prior work in regulated environments such as financial services, payments, AML/KYC or RegTech

Required skills

• Strong command of Spring Boot, JVM fundamentals, concurrency and memory behaviour
• Solid SQL and data modelling, with experience diagnosing slow queries
• 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
• Preferred: AWS in production (ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch); blockchain or crypto exposure; Kafka or similar streaming platforms; familiarity with FATF Travel Rule, sanctions screening or transaction monitoring

What we offer

• Competitive salary and company benefits
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the role and team)
• Flat structure, autonomy and opportunities for career growth and continuous learning