About us:
BVNK is the stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises. We're now part of Mastercard, and together we're building a network for every form of money – one that delivers more reach, more capability and more choice.
We enable businesses to build financial products, unlock new markets, and move money in seconds across 130+ countries, with 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets globally. Processing billions annually, we empower enterprises worldwide to send, receive, convert, and settle stablecoins and fiat seamlessly through a single integration.
Our mission is to accelerate global money movement, and we're assembling a world-class team to make it happen.
Trusted by industry leaders like Corpay, Worldpay, Deel, and Flywire, we deliver the infrastructure that makes new forms of money usable within the financial systems customers already rely on today.
By combining Mastercard's global payment reach and trusted networks with BVNK's stablecoin infrastructure, we're building the trusted operating layer for the evolution of money movement, helping customers participate in emerging digital networks without having to rebuild their businesses around every new innovation.
We're a diverse team spread across EMEA, North America, and APAC, with a shared belief that stablecoins are the new infrastructure layer for financial services, and that BVNK is at the forefront of this shift.
We're incredibly honored to have been recognized by:
CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies (2026)
FXC Intelligence Top 100 Cross-border Payment Companies (2026)
Newsweek's The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces (three years running, most recently 2025)
LinkedIn as one of the Top 20 Startups in the UK (2025)
Location: We offer a Hybrid/Remote working policy.
About this role in the team:
We're looking for a Tech Lead to own the technical direction, architecture, and engineering delivery of the Fraud subdomain within BVNK's FinCrime domain.
At BVNK, the Tech Lead is a technical guardian, hands-on in the codebase, accountable for the squad's technical health. You'll own the technical side (architecture, code quality, practices, risk). Your leverage comes from multiplying the team's capability building independent decision-making across the squad, not becoming the sole bottleneck.
The FinCrime domain protects the integrity of BVNK's platform, customers, and partners by preventing, detecting, and responding to financial crime risk across all products and geographies. It provides a consistent, policy-driven decision layer for risk across onboarding, transactions, and ongoing customer lifecycle events, screening providers, transaction monitoring, and fraud controls. Within this domain, the Fraud subdomain is responsible for building the detection, prevention, and response capabilities that protect BVNK from account takeovers, payment fraud, APP (Authorised Push Payment) fraud, card fraud, scams, and abuse across both fiat and crypto rails.
This is a greenfield technical leadership opportunity at a critical moment. BVNK is building a comprehensive, data-driven fraud detection and prevention framework that can scale with the company's rapid growth into new products and new markets..
You'll define the technical architecture, lead the integration of Unit21 as BVNK's fraud engine, and build the engineering practices and standards that turn fraud prevention from a gap into a competitive advantage.
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
Technical ownership & architecture
Define and own the fraud engineering architecture — Design the end-to-end technical vision for fraud detection, prevention, and response at BVNK: real-time fraud decision services, event enrichment pipelines, device and behavioural signal collection, fraud engine integration, and case management connectors.
Team growth & engineering culture
Build and mentor the fraud engineering squad — Tailor work assignments to individual growth, run group knowledge-sharing sessions, give regular and specific…