Backend Developer (Netherlands)

BJAK is a leading Southeast Asian insurance platform expanding into financial services, aiming to help people get more from their money through innovative products. They value passionate, talented individuals who enjoy building next-generation financial applications.

Location: Netherlands

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, FX, KYC and risk flows.
• Design reliable systems that can support real customer transactions, operational workflows and future financial products.
• Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services and third-party platforms.
• Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity and incident handling.
• Work with product, frontend, mobile and AI teams to launch features quickly and safely.
• Improve existing systems by simplifying flows, removing manual work and automating repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience in production systems.
• Good understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events and integrations.
• Experience building services used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
• Strong debugging, reliability, security and data quality mindset.
• Able to make practical trade-offs between speed, correctness, scalability and maintainability.

Additional Information

• This role is remote but candidates must be based in Netherlands.
• English is the main working language.
• The interview process includes an online assessment or practical task, a technical interview, and a final round with the CEO.