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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Back-End at Dakota'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Back-End at Dakota

- **Company:** Dakota
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-07-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dakota/9f375be2-8859-4449-b63d-3ded85292b5b

## Job description

## ABOUT DAKOTA

At Dakota, we're building the next-generation global banking platform. Our mission is to empower businesses to operate globally by combining the best of crypto and traditional finance. Launched in 2024, Dakota already serves hundreds of customers and processes billions in annualized transaction volume.

From day one, Dakota has been a fully remote company. Our lean but experienced team is distributed across North America and Europe, united by a deep sense of ownership, a relentless focus on our customers, and a commitment to expanding economic freedom worldwide.

Please note: Dakota is a remote-only, equal-opportunity employer. At this time, we are able to hire within the U.S., United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Software Engineer at Dakota, you'll join our core engineering team designing and implementing the robust back-end infrastructure that fuels our blockchain-integrated banking platform. From day one, you'll tackle high-visibility projects that directly impact our financial products and customer experience. Your career path can evolve toward deep technical specialization in specific components of our system or broaden into a versatile engineering role that spans multiple domains, depending on your strengths and our growing business requirements.

## TECH STACK

- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our primary cloud infrastructure provider
- Kubernetes for orchestrating our containerized microservices
- Golang for most of our backend services and infrastructure tools
- TypeScript for our front-end applications, deployed via Vercel
- PostgreSQL & TimescaleDB for data management and financial transaction history
- Buildkite for CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- GitHub for version control and collaboration
- Sentry for error tracking and Incident.io for incident management

## REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years experience in software engineering
- Strong grasp of Golang
- Ability to own and drive engineering projects
- Extreme proactivity in identifying and fixing issues in the product and code base
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose complex system issues
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams
- Located in the US, UK, Spain or Portugal

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with crypto/Web3
- Familiarity with financial systems or payment processing
- Proficient with LLMs and effective prompting techniques for major models, especially Claude
- Knowledge of accounting principles or accounting systems

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally
- A collaborative environment with a high-caliber team from Coinbase, Anchorage, Messari, Square, Airbnb, and more
- Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth fintech
- Fully remote working environment
- Coworking space monthly stipend
- Home office equipment stipend
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Regular team events and off-sites

## About Dakota

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dakota provides regulated stablecoin infrastructure for storing, moving, and managing digital dollars, enabling businesses to operate a global bank account without traditional banks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised $12.5M)
- **Headquarters**: Boulder, Colorado, United States (with offices in United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain)
- **Founded**: 2023 (seed round closed January 2024)
- **Founders**: Ryan Bozarth (CEO) and Gabe Grazier G'Sell

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology / Stablecoin infrastructure / Payments
- **Target customers**: Fintechs, payment companies, global enterprises, and crypto-native businesses (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: "Making regulated money move at the speed of software" – building money infrastructure for the internet age.

## Products & Services
- **Move money**: Send and receive USD and stablecoins across SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, and on-chain rails.
- **Store money**: Custodial storage for USD and stablecoins with bank-grade security, backed by U.S. Treasuries.
- **Operational account**: A business account purpose-built for crypto-native operations, enabling global transactions without traditional banking friction.
- **Cards**: Issue cards backed by stablecoin balances.
- **Self-serve / Pay-as-you-go**: Direct sign-up with no sales calls, KYB completed in under 24 hours.
- **Enterprise-grade APIs**: For issuing, transferring, and scaling stablecoins.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $3B processed on the platform (as of mid-2026); total funding $12.5M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by CoinFund (Series A), with backing from other leading crypto and fintech investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 92.3% headcount growth year-over-year (now ~17 employees), 700+ customers, self-serve launch in 2026, expanding global presence (U.S., UK, Portugal, Spain).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulated stablecoin infrastructure** that cuts out sponsor banks, enabling faster and cheaper global money movement.
- **Unified platform** combining custody, payments, and compliance without requiring customers to manage regulatory licensing or blockchain complexity.
- **Bank-grade security** on stablecoin rails, with deposits fully secured by U.S. Treasuries.
- **Team expertise**: Founders and key hires from Anchorage Digital, Coinbase, and other top fintech/security companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling self-serve adoption** and continuing to build out the developer API surface.
- **Expanding globally** with offices in Europe and a growing customer base across multiple countries.
- **Deepening regulatory compliance** to maintain trust and enable broader institutional adoption (e.g., hiring a Chief Compliance Officer). 
- **Driving economic freedom** by offering a business account that eliminates traditional banking obstacles like slow wires, opaque fees, and arbitrary account freezes.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: All current roles are remote (though U.S. presence in Boulder); team spans four countries.
- **Small but rapidly growing team** (17 employees with 92% YoY growth) – high impact and ownership.
- **Engineering-centric**: 28% of staff in technical roles; tech stack includes Kubernetes, microservices, TypeScript, and modern fintech APIs.
- **Backed by top investors** (CoinFund) and built by veterans from Anchorage, Coinbase, and Capital One.
- **Mission-driven**: Working on real financial infrastructure that challenges legacy banking – "a new type of account, one without the banks."
- **Notable perks**: Early-stage equity, the ability to shape product and culture, and direct exposure to a fast-growing regulated stablecoin platform.

## Sources
1. [dakota.xyz](https://dakota.xyz/) – Company homepage, product overview, and mission.
2. [dakota.xyz - About](https://dakota.xyz/about) – Team, investors, and company background.
3. [dakota.xyz - About Us](https://dakota.xyz/about-us) – Value proposition and why Dakota exists.
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dakota) – Remote culture, team size, and job listings.
5. [linkedin.com/company/dakotahq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dakotahq) – Headcount, funding, locations, and recent milestones ($3B processed, 700+ customers).

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