Staff Software Engineer - BitGo Prime

About the job

BitGo leads the way in digital asset financial services, offering liquidity, custody, and security solutions to institutional investors. Established in 2013, BitGo is known for its multi-signature wallet and focuses on serving institutional clients. Actively involved in centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo provides top-notch trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services. It also serves as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo introduced BitGo Portfolio and Tax, giving clients a comprehensive solution for digital assets. Similarly, in 2018, BitGo launched BitGo Trust Company, the pioneer qualified custodian built for storing digital assets. With approximately 20% of global Bitcoin transactions processed by BitGo, it extends its support to over 1000 coins and tokens. BitGo is the backbone for the security and operational needs of more than 1500 institutional clients across 50 countries, including regulated entities and top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. Invested in by reputed entities like Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and others, BitGo is on the lookout for a skilled Staff Software Engineer to join the Prime Engineering team.

The primary focus of this role revolves around developing new features and applications for enterprise clients to make BitGo the premier digital assets Prime Broker within the business realm. This position is predominantly remote, with a requirement for those within a reasonable commuting distance to the office to attend on Wednesdays.

Responsibilities:

• Design and construct sturdy APIs, libraries, and services to fuel our financial services including clearing and settlement, digital asset lending, trading, and liquidity.
• Take charge of functionality and scalability features by overseeing the process from inception to deployment and integration with customers.
• Document and expose functionality to the user interface, third-party developers, internal teams, and external tooling.
• Work closely with all engineering teams to maintain alignment on technical requirements and overall work quality.
• Offer mentorship to colleagues across the engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices.

Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated alignment with company values such as open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a commitment to high craftsmanship.
• 8+ years of experience in back-end, server-side software development.
• Proficient in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Extensive knowledge in server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS.
• Strong background in SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL.
• Proficient in RESTful API design, unit and functional testing, debugging, microservices, and service-oriented architectures.
• Skilled in Git/GitHub, branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, and other related tools.
• Capable of working autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for system support.

Preferred:

• Background in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology.
• Experience with asynchronous programming, functional programming, financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping, digital asset trading, lending, and wallets.
• Full-stack capability and familiarity with React.
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications.
• Exposure to working with clients and business partners.
• Understanding and keen interest in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain industry.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry demands vision, innovation, passion, technical expertise, drive, collaboration, and execution. Join a team that embodies corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication, and strives for excellence in its endeavors. BitGo offers a competitive base salary, bonus, stock options, company-paid health insurance, 401k company match, paid parental leave, ample vacation time, commuter and parking benefits, free meals and snacks, tailored computer equipment, and a vibrant startup environment. Working at BitGo provides the chance to be actively involved in transforming the world's financial markets.

Pay Transparency Notice: The compensation for this role typically ranges between $185,000 - $235,000 USD base salary, complimented by equity, annual performance bonuses, and the aforementioned benefits.