(Very) Senior Software Engineer, Bastion
$200-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
Web3 intergration platform
Job no longer available
Web3 intergration platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$200-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable the next generation of web3 interactions for businesses, that feel like web2.
Role
Who you are
- If you think the job involves are something you can handle, we will be excited to speak with you
What the job involves
- We are looking for (very) senior software engineers focusing on the backend to join the Bastion engineering team
- 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
- First 30 days: Learn the rails, ship confidently
- Ramp on service layout, CI/CD, observability, engineering conventions and practices
- Ship a small feature slice or quality-of-life improvement in one service
- Add tests, dashboards, or runbook notes for the areas you touch
- 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 issuance-readiness
- Lead a medium-scope project: eg. 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
- A delivered feature/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
- 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 problems you might work on
- 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
- Our 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, Kakfa
- 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
Our take
There is a lot for businesses to consider nowadays, as the evolution of the internet and technology is often hard to keep up with. Founded in 2023, Bastion is very new to the scene and sets out to enable companies to seamlessly integrate web3 infrastructure into enterprise technologies. The white-label platform uses a cost-effective product suite of tools (from custodial wallets to data analytics) for businesses to determine their on and off-chain products and further develop digital assets to better their consumers' experience.
Founded by two a16z Crypto C-suiters the platform combines the simplicity of web2 with the capabilities of web3. The company has enjoyed two impressive rounds of funding, and the premise looks promising. It will be really exciting to see how Bastion takes on competitors in the market and sets itself apart.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2025
$14.6m
EARLY VC
Sep 2023
$25m
SEED
Total funding: $39.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible work schedules
- Unlimited paid vacation & holidays
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Life insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Tax-advantaged accounts
- One Medical
- Spring Health
- and more!
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Nassim Eddequiouaq
(Co-Founder)Previously worked in Security & Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook, and Chief Information Security Officer at Andreessen Horowitz.
Riyaz Faizullabhoy
(Co-Founder)Worked in Security & Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook and was CTO of Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz.
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