Bastion

Financial Infrastructure

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

$240–270k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at Bastion. Skills: Backend Engineering, Go, TypeScript, AWS. Design and ship services. Handle custody”

What You'll Achieve.

Multiple safe production deploys; Run core services locally; Trace requests through logs/metrics; Updated documentation; PRs that improve onboarding; Delivered feature or refactor; Improves product metric; Improves SLO; Improves developer ergonomics; Go-to person for service domain; Multi-sprint delivery; Simplifies the system; Unlocks product velocity; Clear before/after reliability improvements; Clear after performance improvements; Documentation that helps others ship faster; Designs that help others ship safer

Industry & Context.

Financial Infrastructure
Problems you'll solve

Improve p95 latency; Query tuning; Caching; Backpressure strategies; Navigating tradeoffs

Eligibility Requirements

Hybrid-but-flexible work, Remote candidates considered

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Rust, gRPC, GraphQL, tRPC, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Temporal, AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, Incident.io

Nice to Have

Nitro Enclaves

What You'll Do.

Design and ship services

Handle compliance workflows

Ramp on service architecture

Ramp on observability

Ramp on engineering conventions

Ship a small feature slice

Take ownership of a service

Lead a medium-scope project

Update an API contract

Implement a partner integration

Strengthen reliability

Lead a cross-service initiative

Shape technical direction

Partner with compliance

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with product managers; Collaborate with compliance; Collaborate with other engineers; Build relationships with vertical team; Build relationships with cross-functional partners; Partner with product; Partner with compliance

Process & Methodology

Lead a medium-scope project, Lead a cross-service initiative, Design docs

Full Job Description

ABOUT BASTION Bastion builds regulated financial infrastructure for modern businesses. Bastion's full stack product suite covers stablecoin issuance, custodial wallet infrastructure, and global asset conversion rails, with the flexibility to deploy individual capabilities or combine them end-to-end. Bastion's regulated foundation underpins a compliance-first approach to risk management, ensuring the integrity and security of all financial activity within its systems. Bastion holds the appropriate licenses for its own operations, but can also act as a service provider, offering compliance and financial operations support under our customers’ licenses. OVERVIEW We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and build the core infrastructure that powers our stablecoin platform. In this role, you'll design and ship services that handle custody, transfers, issuance, and compliance workflows—systems that process real money and require exceptional reliability and security. You'll work within one of our product verticals (Custody, On/Off Ramps, Issuance, or Shared Services), collaborating closely with product managers, compliance, and other engineers. Our teams are small and cross-functional, which means your work ships fast and has direct impact on customers and partners. This is an opportunity to build financial infrastructure at a 30+ person company where ownership is real. We're remote-first, async-by-default, and expect engineers to take initiative—whether that's shipping features, improving observability, or strengthening the codebase. If you want to work on hard problems in a regulated domain where your contributions matter immediately, we'd love to talk. WORK TO BE DONE Instead of a list of requirements, we want to give you a directional look into the first 30, 90, and 180 days on the job. We are a startup, so the pace is fast and the specific work will change. You need to be okay with that. If you think this is something you can handle, we will

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