Backend Engineer

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.

For this role, we're seeking high horsepower individuals who are interested in ramping up on onchain 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 required for this position include:

• 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 include:

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

Location: Dubai