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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer - Low Latency at Bitvavo'
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# Senior Backend Engineer - Low Latency at Bitvavo

- **Company:** Bitvavo
- **Location:** Headquarters
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bitvavo/432d1bfb-1d78-4d01-b2a7-864684314e2f

## Job description

In 2018, Bitvavo launched the first version of its digital assets trading platform, to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. By offering transparent fees, a wide range of assets and an easy to use platform, Bitvavo is making the currency of the future accessible for everyone.

In two years' time, Bitvavo has established itself as the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, with over one million users exchanging tens of billions of digital assets a year.

## About the Opportunity

We are a rapidly growing engineering organisation making digital assets accessible to our customers. To meet the demands of our growing customer base and an increasing number of assets offered, we are expanding our core backend teams to drive innovation with focus on designing and implementing cutting-edge low latency services with an aim for enabling seamless customer experience.

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Collaborate with your Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer and the team to craft highly performant, low latency and high throughput services
- Dive into technical challenges, building solutions to guarantee peak performance across our systems with focus on measurements and benchmarking
- Actively participate in pivotal decisions on technology stacks and architecture
- Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in our production environment

## What We Look For

- 5+ years of development experience
- Firm understanding of low level JVM & OS concepts with a strong grasp on the language, preferably Kotlin
- Solid understanding of programming design patterns and principles
- Nice to Haves:
- Seeking a tech-startup/scale-up environment
- Knowledge about network protocol - TCP, UDP
- Familiarity with libraries such as aeron and/or chronicle queue
- Experience with event-driven microservices using Kafka
- Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud platforms — we work on AWS

If you are passionate about backend development, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to contribute to the success of a leading cryptocurrency exchange, we invite you to apply for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Bitvavo. At Bitvavo, we believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation, foster creativity, and lead to better outcomes. We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, or any other characteristic. Join us and be part of a team that values and celebrates your unique contributions.

Bitvavo does not accept resumes from staffing, search, or recruitment firms without a signed agreement. If you send us a resume without such an agreement, we may contact the candidate directly without any obligation whatsoever and no fee of any kind will be paid should we hire the candidate.

## What We Offer

At Bitvavo, we believe in attracting, motivating and retaining talented people through market-competitive offerings that go beyond compensation alone. To learn more about our total rewards package and the benefits we offer, visit our Life at Bitvavo page.

## About Bitvavo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bitvavo is a European cryptocurrency exchange platform that makes digital asset trading simple, secure, and transparent for retail and institutional customers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Mark Nuvelstijn, Tim Baardse, Jelle de Boer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cryptocurrency exchange / digital asset trading
- **Target customers**: B2C (retail traders) and B2B (institutional investors); primarily European market
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable customers to outperform the traditional financial system by making crypto accessible to all — simple, secure, and transparent.

## Products & Services
- **Bitvavo Trading Platform**: A web and mobile app offering trading in 400+ cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, etc.) with transparent tiered fees (max 0.25%) and direct euro deposits via 8 payment methods.
- **Staking & Earn Program**: Allows users to earn passive returns on crypto holdings while retaining full access to their assets.
- **Bitvavo Account Guarantee**: Reimburses up to €100,000 for losses due to unauthorized account access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: €100B+ assets managed, 2M+ active users across Europe, 500+ employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Bitvavo is independently backed and regulated under MiCA by the Dutch AFM.
- **Growth Signals**: Licensed under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) — the first major crypto exchange to hold a MiCA license; consistently ranked among top European crypto platforms; 4/5 Trustpilot rating from 17,600+ reviews.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Fully authorized as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA by the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), giving it a compliance edge in the EU.
- **Transparent low fees**: Maximum 0.25% trading fee with tiered discounts; no hidden costs.
- **Security & trust**: Strict segregation of customer funds, proof of reserves, and a €100,000 account guarantee.
- **Localized experience**: Dutch-founded, Amsterdam-based with a deep understanding of European regulatory and payment ecosystems.

## Strategic Focus
- Becoming the #1 consumer crypto exchange in Europe.
- Scaling responsibly through regulatory compliance, product innovation, and a hybrid work culture.
- Expanding staking and earn products to increase user engagement and retention.
- Building a high-performance engineering and product organization to maintain platform reliability and speed.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Open, performance-driven, and growth-oriented with values like “Do the right thing, always”, “Take full ownership”, and “Win together”.
- **Work model**: Hybrid — balance between in-office collaboration (Amsterdam headquarters) and flexibility.
- **Benefits**: Competitive base salary + discretionary performance bonus + equity opportunities; fresh breakfast/lunch/snacks at the office; generous learning & development budget; flexible wellbeing budget; travel allowance or Swapfiets subscription; robust pension plan; fully covered OpenUp mental health subscription.
- **Relocation**: Full support for international hires — visa for family, flights, paid temporary housing, permanent housing search assistance, and administrative help (BSN, bank account, healthcare).
- **Events**: Regular team gatherings, pizza nights, themed dinners, and annual traditions like Vavoween (Halloween party) and Vavofest (company-wide celebration).

## Sources
1. [bitvavo.com](https://bitvavo.com/en/about) — Company overview, stats, founders, regulation
2. [bitvavo.com](https://bitvavo.com/en) — Product details, fees, security, Trustpilot rating
3. [jobs.bitvavo.com](https://jobs.bitvavo.com/about) — Culture, values, teams, mission
4. [jobs.bitvavo.com](https://jobs.bitvavo.com/life-at-bitvavo) — Benefits, relocation, events

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