BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
We're looking for engineers who have strong opinions but hold them loosely, can give direct feedback constructively, and believe in raising the bar for the entire team. No egos, no defensiveness, just smart people building great software together. We are seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to join our expanding team and contribute to the development of our web application. This role offers the chance to architect solutions, drive technical decisions, and work on a product serving hundreds of thousands of users.
We value open communication, transparency, ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. Our mission is to deliver trust in digital assets, and we are looking for teammates who share this vision.
What you will do:
- Design and build scalable web applications using our Node.js/TypeScript and React stack
- Collaborate closely with design and product managers to define, architect, and ship new features
- Establish engineering best practices, code standards, and development processes
- Conduct thorough code reviews, provide mentorship to team members and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Draft technical design documents & spearhead major initiatives
Required:
- Proven experience in modern front-end development using React
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and related technologies (ES6, TypeScript)
- Experience with unit and /integration testing using frameworks like Vitest, Jest, Enzyme or JUnit
- Demonstrated experience developing and deploying Node.js applications using Express, Redis and other modern backend technologies
- Solid understanding of the software development life cycle
- Knowledge of UI/UX standards and design principles
- Experience in GitHub and git workflows
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- We are a 24/7 service that requires participation on an on-call rotation
- We value skills and experience over formal education, degrees are not required
- You don’t need to meet every listed requirement from day one, but you should be able to quickly learn and apply new skills
Preferred:
- Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
- Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
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 $180,000 - $220,000 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
- Commuter stipend
- 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.
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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.
