Engineering Manager - Prime Trade
BitGo is a leading provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since its inception in 2013, BitGo has focused on facilitating secure navigation of the digital asset space for clients globally. BitGo serves numerous institutions and retail investors worldwide, handling a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions as the largest independent digital asset custodian and staking provider globally.
BitGo is seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Prime organization to aid in building resilient and robust services, contributing to critical projects with minimal supervision required.
This role necessitates full-time onsite presence at the Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and inventive problem-solving strategies.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and nurture a team of skilled engineers, providing both cultural and technical leadership
- Foster team growth while shaping a culture of open communication, craftsmanship, and ownership
- Ensure quality and timely delivery of the team's work
- Oversee technology and services powering BitGo Prime, covering trading, lending, settlement, and more
- Act as a positive liaison between engineering teams and product operations, support, compliance, and business stakeholders
- Own and be accountable for key performance indicators related to internal operational efficiency, client experience aspects, and service uptime
- Promote comprehensive documentation and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with management and product teams to plan, estimate, and prioritize roadmap objectives
- Align the team with broader company goals and meet client expectations
Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will share and embody BitGo's values of open communication, transparency, ownership, and craftsmanship, as well as align with the overall vision to deliver trust in digital assets.
Required
- Proven managerial experience in an engineering department
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers
- Proficiency in automation and developing tools for enhanced workflow efficiency
- Strong debugging skills and adeptness at understanding complex systems
- Demonstrated capability in recruiting top engineering talent
- Experience in cross-team collaboration and supporting broader departmental objectives
- Self-driven, adaptive, and decisive individual
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
- Interest and understanding of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology
Preferred
- Proficiency in NodeJS, TypeScript, Go, Postgres, React, and Kafka
- Familiarity with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
- Knowledge of Containers and Kubernetes
- Experience in the financial industry
- Familiarity with digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, or accounting systems
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting the industry requires vision, innovation, passion, technical prowess, drive, collaboration, and execution. BitGo offers the opportunity to work with a team dedicated to excellence and embodying core values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. Join a team committed to revolutionizing the financial markets.
Pay Transparency Notice: The salary for this role ranges between $180,000 - $240,000 USD, depending on level and location. In addition to the base salary, equity, an annual performance bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package are included.
Some benefits of working at BitGo include competitive salary, bonus, and stock options; fully paid health insurance; 401k company match; paid parental leave and vacation; commuter benefits; free meals and snacks; customized work equipment; and a stimulating startup environment.
Cryptocurrencies have brought significant disruption to the financial services industry. By joining BitGo, you can be part of the team that shape the future of investing.