Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
About Bastion Bastion 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. 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 be excited to speak with you. This role is based out of our New York City office. We work in a hybrid-but-flexible way (no set days in the office, come in when you think its effective.
Responsibilities
- Ramp on service architecture, CI/CD, observability, and engineering conventions
- Ship a small feature slice or quality-of-life improvement in one service
- Add tests, dashboards, or runbook notes for the areas you touch
- Build relationships with your vertical team and cross-functional partners
- Take ownership of a service or capability across our product, with an eye toward production-readiness
- Lead a medium-scope project: 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
