Jobs at Bitvavo

Execute and support end-to-end payroll for employees in the Netherlands and other EMEA locations. Maintain accurate payroll data, support Dutch tax and labor compliance, answer employee payroll questions, coordinate with external providers and authorities, perform payroll reconciliations, prepare reports, and contribute to process improvements and automation. The role requires collaboration with Finance, People teams, tax advisors, and senior payroll colleagues.

Design and implement highly performant, low-latency, high-throughput backend services for a digital asset trading platform. Responsibilities include benchmarking and optimizing systems, contributing to technology and architecture decisions, and participating in production incident rotations. The role requires strong JVM and operating system knowledge, programming design principles, and backend development experience, with preferred experience in networking protocols, event-driven microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Design and implement high-quality backend services for a cryptocurrency trading platform. Collaborate with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams, solve complex performance challenges, influence technology and architecture decisions, and participate in production incident rotations. The role focuses on event-driven microservices, financial trading products, and scalable systems using JVM technologies, preferably Kotlin, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Manage day-to-day People Operations across multiple European entities, including employee inquiries, onboarding, offboarding, contracts, benefits, visas, leave, HR data, payroll changes, documentation, and reporting. Maintain accurate Personio records, coordinate lifecycle processes, resolve requests within SLAs, and escalate complex issues. Collaborate with People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, managers, and stakeholders while improving operational processes and compliance knowledge.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for crypto custody, wallet security, transfers, asset listings, yield products, fees, and node infrastructure. Partner with Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Security, Treasury, and Data to balance safeguarding, compliance, growth, and revenue. Manage custodians and infrastructure vendors, track assets-under-custody and yield KPIs, and represent Product during wallet and crypto rail security incidents.

Own product marketing, customer growth, and go-to-market strategy for Bitvavo’s retail digital-assets platform. Lead market entry and acquisition strategies, design and launch multichannel campaigns, improve onboarding and activation, monitor competitors, and align Product, Marketing, CRM, Brand, Legal, Performance, Affiliates, and Social teams. Use analytics, experimentation, and customer insights to drive cross-sell, upsell, adoption, activation, retention, and market share in regulated fintech markets.

Own go-to-market strategy and engagement for advanced trading products targeting sophisticated retail traders. Lead launches, lifecycle and loyalty campaigns, competitor positioning, multi-channel execution, and trader education. Partner cross-functionally with Product, CRM, Brand, Legal, Performance, Affiliates, and Social to drive trading volume, conversion, retention, and engagement. Use analytics and experimentation to measure campaign impact and guide product and marketing decisions in a regulated fintech environment.

Own end-to-end data science initiatives across growth, personalization, pricing, market execution, risk, financial integrity, and financial crime. Build causal inference, predictive, ranking, and fraud detection models; deploy and monitor them in production; communicate uncertainty and insights to senior stakeholders; and mentor teammates on statistical and modeling best practices.

Owns risk management for Bitvavo’s Cyprus-regulated entity, including enterprise risk governance, financial and non-financial risk, credit, market, liquidity, capital, stress testing, operational resilience, outsourcing, incident management, and Board reporting. The role requires leadership of the risk function, oversight of ICARA and prudential reporting, and expertise in regulated broker, exchange, clearing, capital markets, and crypto environments.

Build and operate a self-service data platform supporting databases, messaging, ingestion, processing, and consumption at scale. Develop secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation. Evolve support for structured and semi-structured data, stream processing, and governance. Work with distributed messaging systems, including Kafka and Flink, while mentoring teammates and partnering directly with stakeholders to drive engineering excellence.

Design, build, and enable scalable, low-latency, highly available platform capabilities. Collaborate with engineering teams to automate infrastructure, provide observability, and deliver reproducible environments using IaC and container orchestration. Mentor peers and drive platform ownership and reliability.

Design, build and maintain a self-service data platform to enable teams to create data products. Support real-time analytics, batch processing and ML workloads. Implement secure, scalable, compliant infrastructure with IaC and automation. Enable ingestion, processing and consumption of data at scale. Mentor teammates and drive engineering excellence.