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# Software Engineer, Payments

- **Company:** DAKOTA LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Accounting Systems, Cloud Computing, Github, PostgreSQL, Blockchain, Next.js, Software Engineering, System Programming, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Sentry, Data Management, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-payments-dakota-8132879

## About the Role

* 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, * 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

## Description

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


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