Bastion · 5 days ago
Senior Software Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$240K/yr - $270K/yrBastion is a company that enables financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins and expand their ecosystems. They are looking for senior software engineers focusing on the backend to join their engineering team, where the role involves taking ownership of services, leading projects, and driving cross-service initiatives.
Information TechnologyInternet
No H1B
Responsibilities
Ramp on service layout, CI/CD, observability, engineering conventions and practices
Ship a small feature slice or quality-of-life improvement in one service
Add tests, dashboards, or runbook notes for the areas you touch
Take ownership of a service or capability across our product, with an eye toward issuance-readiness
Lead a medium-scope project: eg. updating an API contract, implementing a partner integration, or improving robustness of a critical path
Strengthen reliability with better logging, tracing, alerts, and failure handling
Lead a cross-service initiative, such as an API versioning plan, a data model migration, or a compliance-driven workflow change
Shape technical direction with design docs and mentoring
Partner with product and compliance to make pragmatic, regulation-aware tradeoffs
Designing stable, evolvable APIs for custody, transfers, or issuance without breaking downstream clients
Building idempotent job flows for high-throughput transfers with strong audit trails
Hardening key operations using hardware-backed isolation and robust key policies
Improving p95 latency through query tuning, caching, or backpressure strategies
Qualification
Required
Experience in backend software engineering
Proficiency in Go and TypeScript/Node.js
Familiarity with Rust as needed
Experience with gRPC and REST service patterns
Knowledge of GraphQL/tRPC for frontend BFFs
Experience with Postgres, Redis, and Kafka
Familiarity with Temporal for workflow management
Experience with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Knowledge of hardware-backed key isolation with Nitro Enclaves
Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, and Incident.io
Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment
Willingness to work in a hybrid-but-flexible environment in New York City
Company
Bastion
Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$39.6MKey Investors
Coinbase Venturesa16z crypto
2025-09-24Seed· $14.6M
2023-09-18Seed· $25M
Leadership Team
Nassim Eddequiouaq
Co-Founder & CEO
Recent News
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