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title: 'Senior Protocol Engineer at Asula Labs'
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last_seen: '2026-09-11'
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# Senior Protocol Engineer at Asula Labs

- **Company:** Asula Labs
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-04-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asula/3a61ab20-99c1-46a9-9c7b-4ad8c2d0bc16

## Job description

## About Us

Asula is a bitcoin company focused on building the next generation of financial products at the intersection of blockchains, bitcoin, stablecoins and finance.

Currently we’re working on Dawn, our mobile interface that allows users to save and grow their assets through bitcoin and stablecoins. Beyond Dawn, we're working on making bitcoin swaps and credit available to holders of all sizes through onchain protocols.

## Role

For this role we're seeking protocol-focused engineers who can work across the blockchain stack to ship new protocols while balancing speed and safety. The core expectations from a candidate in this role would be to:

- Develop and maintain smart contracts for the SVM.
- Develop and maintain schemes for collateral management on bitcoin where expressivity is limited.
- Design fundamentally sound protocols for lending and insurance.

## Qualifications

- 3+ years of experience designing protocols for financial applications like decentralized exchanges and lending markets.
- Solid understanding of consensus, blockchain architecture and virtual machine concepts (especially as they pertain to Solana).
- Experience with audits, deployment and maintenance of onchain protocols.

Nice to haves

- Prior experience building on top of bitcoin.
- Prior experience building application-specific blockchains from consensus and networking to business logic.

## About Asula Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Asula Labs builds the next generation of products at the intersection of bitcoin, blockchain infrastructure, and finance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped – no public funding rounds found)
- **Headquarters**: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (primary office based on job listings; also has team members in Netherlands, United States, India, and Australia)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jesse Rosenblatt (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Blockchain Services, Bitcoin Infrastructure, Financial Technology
- Target customers: B2B – enterprises and protocols needing blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and financial tooling
- Mission/purpose: “Building the next generation of products at the intersection of bitcoin, blockchain infrastructure and finance”

## Products & Services
- **[Smart Contract & Protocol Engineering]**: Design and maintain financial protocols, collateral management schemes, and smart contracts on blockchain networks. Type: Service/Engineering.
- **[Backend Systems for Bitcoin Applications]**: Develop scalable APIs, blockchain data pipelines, and user-facing application backends. Type: Software/SaaS.
- **(Intern/New Grad Program)**: Hands-on engineering role building new product features and services. Type: Talent pipeline.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; headcount of 4 employees (as of mid-2025/2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**: 33.3% year-over-year headcount growth (+1 employee); actively hiring for senior roles and internships; expanding remote presence across three locations (Dubai, remote, and in-office hybrid)

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep specialization in bitcoin-centric blockchain infrastructure in a market dominated by generalist crypto firms
- Small, highly technical team (50% technical staff) enabling fast decision-making and ownership
- Remote-first culture with low overhead, attracting global talent

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the engineering team by hiring senior protocol engineers and software engineers, as well as nurturing new grad talent
- Building robust backend systems and financial protocols for bitcoin and blockchain applications
- Maintaining a lean, geographically distributed team to accelerate product delivery

## Why Work Here
- High-impact role in a micro-team where each engineer owns critical infrastructure
- Remote-friendly work environment (remote and in-office hybrid options in Dubai)
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge bitcoin and blockchain problems from day one
- Flat hierarchy and startup autonomy (founder-led, 4-person team)
- Perks not explicitly listed, but likely includes flexibility and equity in an early-stage venture

## Sources
1. [asula.xyz](https://www.asula.xyz/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/asulalabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/asulalabs)
3. [builtin.com/company/asula-labs](https://builtin.com/company/asula-labs)
4. [builtin.com/company/asula-labs/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/asula-labs/jobs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/asula](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asula)

## Other roles at Asula Labs

- [Software Engineer: Intern/New Grad](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-intern-new-grad-asula-labs-dubai-hn38q4ky8drt) — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-asula-labs-amsterdam-tapfgys3rvzs) — Amsterdam, Netherlands
- [Senior Protocol Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-protocol-engineer-xion-remote-8gtt0xebrfdg)