Company Name: Bastion

Job Details: 2,Locations,In-Office,or,Remote,240K-270K,Annually,Senior,level

Job Url: https://builtin.com/job/senior-software-engineer/7418230

Job Description: About BastionBastion enables financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, generate revenue on reserves, and expand their ecosystems. Bastion’s platform combines stablecoin issuance, secure custody, and seamless orchestration for cross-border transfers, on/off-ramps, and stablecoin conversions. With Bastion’s platform and APIs, businesses can create and scale their stablecoin network, while optimizing revenue, compliance, and control.You can check out our Guide for Candidates here to learn more about our work. OverviewWe are looking for (very) senior software engineers focusing on the backend to join the Bastion engineering team. We are mostly based in New York, but are open to amazing engineers anywhere in the United States as long as you are effective working remotely. Work to Be DoneInstead 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 be excited to speak with you.First 30 days: Learn the rails, ship confidentlyRamp on service layout, CI/CD, observability, engineering conventions and practicesShip a small feature slice or quality-of-life improvement in one serviceAdd tests, dashboards, or runbook notes for the areas you touchOutcomesMultiple safe production deploys with follow-up verificationYou can run core services locally and trace requests through logs/metricsUpdated documentation and/or PRs that improve onboarding in your areaBy 90 days: Own a service surface and raise the barTake ownership of a service or capability across our product, with an eye toward issuance-readinessLead a medium-scope project: eg. updating an API contract, implementing a partner integration, or improving robustness of a critical pathStrengthen reliability with better logging, tracing, alerts, and failure handlingOutcomesA delivered feature/refactor that improves a product metric, SLO, or developer ergonomicsYou’re a go-to person for your service domainBy 180 days: Drive cross-service impactLead a cross-service initiative, such as an API versioning plan, a data model migration, or a compliance-driven workflow changeShape technical direction with design docs and mentoringPartner with product and compliance to make pragmatic, regulation-aware tradeoffsOutcomesA multi-sprint delivery that simplifies the system and unlocks product velocityClear before/after reliability or performance improvementsDocumentation and designs that help others ship faster and saferSome problems you might work onDesigning stable, evolvable APIs for custody, transfers, or issuance without breaking downstream clientsBuilding idempotent job flows for high-throughput transfers with strong audit trailsHardening key operations using hardware-backed isolation and robust key policiesImproving p95 latency through query tuning, caching, or backpressure strategiesOur typical stackLanguages: Go and TypeScript/Node.js; some services in Rust as neededService patterns: gRPC and REST; GraphQL/tRPC at the edge for frontend BFFsData and async processing: Postgres, Redis, KakfaWorkflow Management: TemporalInfra: AWS, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform; hardware-backed key isolation with Nitro Enclaves for sensitive operationsObservability and ops: Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, Incident.ioBastion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, and placement. Bastion participates in E-Verify to authorize eligibility of employment in the United States.