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title: 'Software Engineer: Intern/New Grad at Asula Labs'
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# Software Engineer: Intern/New Grad at Asula Labs

- **Company:** Asula Labs
- **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asula/ef6a983e-6c8c-4344-a4b4-7b05874128ee

## Job description

## About Us

Asula is a bitcoin company focused on building the next generation of financial products at the intersection of bitcoin, blockchains, 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 high horsepower individuals who are interested in ramping up on onchian finance and crypto. Responsibilities for this role would include:

- Design new product features and services in collaboration with other engineers on the team.
- Implement scalable and resilient services: APIs, stateful services, and blockchain data pipelines that can handle real-world demand.
- Deploy services end-to-end including maintenance, monitoring and real-world testing.

## Qualifications

- Fluent in at least one strongly-typed backend language (Rust, Go or C++) and comfortable working across frameworks, APIs, and infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of CS fundamentals like algorithms, data structures, networking and operating systems.
- Capacity to learn fast and take ownership.
- Excited about bitcoin, open finance, and the idea of building a new financial stack from first principles.

Nice to haves

- Prior experience with cloud providers specifically AWS.
- Prior experience using DeFi protocols and deploying onchain smart contracts.

## 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

- [Senior Protocol Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-protocol-engineer-asula-labs-amsterdam-sejxeg5v2ef3) — Amsterdam, Netherlands
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-asula-labs-amsterdam-tapfgys3rvzs) — Amsterdam, Netherlands