Senior Software Engineer - Custody Services

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Palo Alto, CA
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at BitGo, you'll design and build robust APIs and services for a custodial platform, ensuring scalability and performance. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, write clean code, and mentor peers while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement within an innovative environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing and settlement out of regulated cold storage. Founded in 2013, BitGo is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. BitGo is dedicated to advancing a digital financial services economy that is borderless and accessible 24/7. With multiple Trust companies around the world, BitGo is the preferred security and operational backbone for more than 1,500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many of the world’s top brands, cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo also secures approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value and is the largest independent digital asset custodian. For more information, please visit www.bitgo.com.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Custody Services team and help us build a custodial platform for businesses and customers to trade, stake, and manage crypto products.

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our custodial platform
  • 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 with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements
  • Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets. 

Required:

  • 5+ years of proven experience of back-end and server-side development
  • Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Strong experience with of TypeScript, Node.js and Kotlin
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
  • Strong experience with RESTful API design
  • Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
  • Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
  • Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
  • Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
  • Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain

Preferred:

  • Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products
  • Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
  • Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React 
  • Experience working with clients and/or business partners
  • Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc

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.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $165,000 - $210,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package. 

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; 5 min from Caltrain
  • Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks 
  • Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
  • Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment

*Benefits may vary based on location 

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.

Top Skills

Kotlin
Node.js
Typescript
The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
293 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors and crypto platforms with liquidity, custody, and security.

In 2020, the company reached new milestones with the launch of BitGo Prime, the first and only deeply integrated, full-stack solution with custody, trading and lending. With the launch of BitGo Portfolio and BitGo Tax, the company also manages activities across wallets, exchanges and service providers.

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 spans more than 50 countries, including qualified custodial entities in Switzerland and Germany.

BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

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