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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Bastion'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Bastion

- **Company:** Bastion
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bastion/fc523fc6-78a4-4f02-807f-de5218f593e3

## Job description

## ABOUT BASTION

Bastion provides the regulated infrastructure businesses need to hold, move, and issue stablecoins. Our platform combines custodial wallets, global payment orchestration, and stablecoin issuance. Customers can use each product independently or connect them into a single end-to-end flow.

We operate through our own regulated entities, with compliance and risk controls built directly into the platform. We can also support customers operating under their own licenses with the compliance and financial operations required to run their programs.

## OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior Software 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 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.

We are building out our engineering hub in New York City, and this role is based our of our SoHo office. We work in a hybrid-but-flexible way (no set days in the office, come in when you think its effective, travel when you like) - most of us are in 2-3 days a week.

FIRST 30 DAYS: LEARN THE RAILS, SHIP CONFIDENTLY

- 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
- Outcomes
- Multiple safe production deploys with follow-up verification
- You can run core services locally and trace requests through logs/metrics
- Updated documentation and/or PRs that improve onboarding in your area

BY 90 DAYS: OWN A SERVICE SURFACE AND RAISE THE BAR

- 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
- Outcomes
- A delivered feature or refactor that improves a product metric, SLO, or developer ergonomics
- You're a go-to person for your service domain

## BY 180 DAYS: DRIVE CROSS-SERVICE IMPACT

- 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
- Outcomes
- A multi-sprint delivery that simplifies the system and unlocks product velocity
- Clear before/after reliability or performance improvements
- Documentation and designs that help others ship faster and safer

## SOME CHALLENGES YOU MIGHT TACKLE

- 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
- Navigating tradeoffs between product velocity and compliance requirements in a regulated environment
- Building services that integrate with banking partners and crypto infrastructure providers

## YOUR TEAM'S TYPICAL STACK

- Languages: Go and TypeScript/Node.js; some services in Rust as needed
- Service patterns: gRPC and REST; GraphQL/tRPC at the edge for frontend BFFs
- Data and async processing: Postgres, Redis, Kafka
- Workflow Management: Temporal
- Infra: AWS, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform; hardware-backed key isolation with Nitro Enclaves for sensitive operations
- Observability and ops: Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, Incident.io http://Incident.io

Bastion 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.

## About Bastion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bastion provides regulated, compliance-first stablecoin infrastructure that enables enterprises to issue, custody, move, and convert stablecoins globally without becoming a regulated financial institution themselves.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $39.6M total raised)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Nassim Eddequiouaq (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Regulated stablecoin infrastructure and digital asset financial services
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and institutional clients — financial institutions, global corporations, fintech platforms, neobanks, and multi-entity businesses that need to integrate stablecoins without building their own regulated infrastructure.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Unlocking the full utility of stablecoins" by removing the regulatory, compliance, and technical barriers that prevent enterprises from using stablecoins for money movement.

## Products & Services
- **Stablecoin Issuance and Management**: Full-stack solution to launch a branded, USD-backed stablecoin. Covers issuance technology, banking integrations, compliance programs, reserve management, and reporting. Best suited for financial institutions and global corporations that want to capture reserve economics.
- **Custodial Wallet Solutions**: Institutional-grade custodial wallets with Cloud HSM and AWS Nitro Enclave-based key management. Includes a policy engine for custody, orchestration, and settlement. Offered under Bastion’s own MTLs and MSB.
- **Global Payments & Commerce (Payment Corridors)**: Fiat-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-stablecoin conversions across 60+ countries with multi-currency support. Built-in compliance and sanctions screening on every corridor. Powers retail payments, subscriptions, in-app purchases, remittances, and embedded retail wallets.
- **Treasury and Capital Optimization**: Accelerates settlement, reduces idle cash, and enables 24/7 cross-border money movement. Designed for treasury teams, multi-entity enterprises, and businesses with significant cross-border capital flows.
- **Single API Platform**: Access all products through one integration with built-in compliance checks, monitoring, screening, and direct connections to banking and liquidity partners.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $39.6M across two seed rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coinbase Ventures (led second seed round), plus at least 12 other investors across both rounds; partnerships with licensed banking and liquidity partners
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Acquired Dibbs Trust Company in February 2025, gaining a New York limited purpose trust company charter from NYDFS
  - Currently applying to convert that charter into a national trust bank charter
  - 33 employees as of mid-2026 (+92% year-over-year growth)
  - Headcount growth of +23 people in the last year
  - 490 active wallets on platform
  - 99.9% platform uptime
  - 6 open job postings across engineering, infrastructure, and brand roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Operates as a regulated trust company under NYDFS (Bastion Platforms Trust Company, LLC) and holds multiple state MTLs — giving enterprises regulated infrastructure without them needing to become banks themselves.
- **Compliance-first architecture**: KYC, KYB, AML, sanctions screening, Travel Rule, and transaction monitoring are natively built into the tech stack, not retrofitted after the fact.
- **Institutional security**: Leverages Cloud HSMs and AWS Nitro Enclaves for key management, ensuring no single point of compromise.
- **Non-compete positioning**: Unlike some infrastructure providers, Bastion does not issue its own competing stablecoin or lock customers into proprietary ecosystems — it operates purely as an infrastructure partner.
- **Proven team**: The founding and executive team has directly launched USD-backed stablecoins at global scale, architected institutional custody for tens of billions in digital assets, and built compliance programs at top global financial institutions.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding its national trust bank charter to broaden regulated capabilities across the United States
- Scaling global payment corridors (currently covering 60+ countries) with multi-currency and multi-jurisdiction support
- Deepening single-API platform to make stablecoin integration seamless for enterprises across issuance, custody, conversion, and settlement
- Maintaining a compliance-first product strategy that prioritizes regulatory integrity alongside product velocity

## Why Work Here
- **Small, ambitious team**: Bastion describes itself as "a small, ambitious team of engineers and builders who believe the best financial tools have yet to be built" — offering high ownership and impact for early employees.
- **Technical depth**: Engineering team works on cutting-edge infrastructure combining regulated finance, cryptography (Cloud HSMs, AWS Nitro Enclaves), smart contract governance, and global payments.
- **Global footprint**: Presence across the United States (Palo Alto HQ), New Zealand, Switzerland, and Uganda — suggesting distributed/remote-friendly culture.
- **Growth trajectory**: Headcount grew 92% in the last year, and the company is actively hiring across senior engineering, infrastructure, and brand roles — a signal of scaling phase.
- **Mission-driven work**: Opportunity to build the regulated backbone of stablecoin infrastructure at a time when stablecoins are becoming a mainstream financial primitive.
- **Active job postings**: As of mid-2026, open roles include Senior Software Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, and Brand and Communications Lead.

## Sources
1. [bastion.com](https://www.bastion.com/)
2. [bastion.com/careers](https://www.bastion.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Bastion](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bastionplatforms)
4. [CB Insights - Bastion](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/bastion-5)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Bastion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Bastion)

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