Bvnk Tech Lead owning the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of the Fraud subdomain within BVNK's FinCrime domain. Responsible for building detection, prevention, and response capabilities against various fraud types.
Responsibilities
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 feedback.
Set and maintain engineering standards — Establish coding standards, review practices, testing strategy, and observability standards
Track and reduce technical debt proactively — Keep tech debt visible and balanced against delivery every planning cycle.
Qualification
Background in payments fraud (APP fraud
Preferred
Experience with fraud engines such as Unit21, Sardine, Feedzai, or similar platforms.
Background in payments fraud (APP fraud, card fraud, ACH returns/chargebacks) or financial crime compliance engineering.
Experience with device intelligence platforms (Fingerprint.js, ThreatMetrix) and behavioural analytics.
Familiarity with on-chain fraud intelligence tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic, Alterya, Cyvers).
Experience building fraud case management integrations with Salesforce or similar CRM platforms.
Understanding of regulatory frameworks for fraud prevention (PSR APP fraud reimbursement, Nacha ACH thresholds, MiCA).
Experience with consortium-based fraud data sharing models (Unit21 Sonar or similar).
Experience managing team cognitive load and applying Team Topologies interaction modes.
