Backend Engineer Intern — Crypto & On-Chain Finance

Electric Capital; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Asula seeks highly capable backend engineers to advance on-chain finance products and a mobile interface, Dawn, with bitcoin and stablecoins. You will design features, implement scalable services and deploy end-to-end, ensuring reliability under real-world demand.

Ideal candidates are fluent in Rust/Go/C++, with strong CS fundamentals and a passion for bitcoin and open finance, exploring new financial stacks from first principles.

Qualifications

• 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 building a new financial stack from first principles.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Deploy services end-to-end including maintenance, monitoring and real-world testing.

Skills

Rust

Go

C++

APIs

Distributed systems

Job description

Asula seeks highly capable backend engineers to advance on-chain finance products and a mobile interface, Dawn, with bitcoin and stablecoins. You will design features, implement scalable services and deploy end-to-end, ensuring reliability under real-world demand.

Ideal candidates are fluent in Rust/Go/C++, with strong CS fundamentals and a passion for bitcoin and open finance, exploring new financial stacks from first principles.