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 requires being full-time onsite at our office in Toronto. For exceptional candidates, we may consider flexible arrangements.
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.
About the Team: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 backend engineer to join our expanding team and contribute to the development of our applications. 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 services using our Node.js/TypeScript 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
- Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our Growth and Web experiences
- Build and maintain backend services that integrate with our microservices architecture
- 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 tooling
- Improve internal workflows by adding tooling to make it easier to develop and experiment
- Collaborate closely with 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
- Coordinate with globally distributed teammates
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:- At least 3+ years of back-end, server-side software development
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Great at algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
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 open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want 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 $160,000 - 200,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.
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 finance.
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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.
