BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions
In 2020, BitGo launched Prime Trading and Lending, as well as BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets
In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets
BitGo processes over 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 250 coins and tokens
BitGo’s customer base includes the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges and institutional investors and spans more than 50 countries
BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners
BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will join our Wallet Services Engineering Team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients
BitGo processes a significant amount of cryptocurrency transactions so our applications need to be fast, accurate, scalable and secure
Our integrated platforms interact with a number of exchanges, agencies, and governments around the world, and we use the best technology the industry offers to build them
This role can be worked remotely so long as your home base is metro San Francisco, Palo Alto, NYC, Austin, Seattle or Toronto, Canada
Highly qualified candidates outside of these areas while still inside North America are also encouraged to apply
Responsibilities:
- Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our wallet services: hot and cold wallets, indexing, staking, and SDK services
- Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
- Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
- Collaborate closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
- Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
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We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and high level of craftsmanship
We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets
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Required
- At least 5 years of back-end, server-side software development
- Strong experience in microservices architecture
- Strong experience with Java or Kotlin
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Strong experience with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience in MongoDB
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc
- Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
- Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Preferred
- Experience splitting a monolith into microservices
- Strong experience in Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Understanding and experience working in the financial industry
- Familiarity with any of the following: API and SDK services, digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, etc
 - Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution
Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication
We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets
Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:
- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
- Free commuter/parking pass
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacksÂ
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
*Benefits may vary based on location
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Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years
Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing