Bastion
Financial Infrastructure
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Bastion. Skills: Backend Engineering, Service Architecture, Go, TypeScript. Design and ship services. Handle custody”
What You'll Achieve.
Multiple safe production deploys; Run core services locally; Trace requests through logs/metrics; Delivered feature or refactor; Improve a product metric; Improve SLO; Improve developer ergonomics; Multi-sprint delivery; Simplify the system; Unlock product velocity; Clear before/after reliability improvements; Clear after performance improvements; Documentation and designs that help others ship faster and safer
Industry & Context.
Improve robustness of a critical path; Strengthen reliability; Improve p95 latency; Navigating tradeoffs
Hybrid-but-flexible work, Remote candidates considered, Take initiative, Ownership is real
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
Improve robustness of a critical path
Strengthen reliability
Lead a cross-service initiative
Shape technical direction
Partner with compliance
Make pragmatic tradeoffs
Build idempotent job flows
Harden key operations
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
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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