Senior Software Engineer, Payments
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Golang
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- distributed systems troubleshooting
Also useful
- Rust
- TimescaleDB
- payment processing
- GCP
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- Home office stipend
- Coworking stipend
About the Role
In the Senior Software Engineer, Payments role 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, focused on payment processing and operations as we build the next generation of financial infrastructure.
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 codebase
- 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
- Conceptually familiar with financial systems, specifically payment processing
- Professional experience or strong interest in systems programming esp. Rust
- Proficient with LLMs and effective prompting techniques for major models, especially Claude
- Experience working at a fintech company or regulated financial institution
- 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
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.
From Dakota's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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