Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

Software Engineer Position at Dakota

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 includes:

• 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 include:

• 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 include:

• 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 includes:

• 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