Backend Engineer - Bitcoin

Summary

BitGo is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Bitcoin team to build robust APIs, own functionality and scalability features, improve internal workflows, focus on security, collaborate with engineering teams, provide mentorship, and coordinate with global stakeholders. The ideal candidate has at least 7 years of back-end experience, strong skills in Node.JS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, RESTful API design, and English communication. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript is preferred.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of back-end, server-side software development
• Great at algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong experience with Node.JS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Strong spoken English skills
• 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 from a top university

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 external tooling
• Improve internal workflows by adding tooling to make it easier for BitGo’s client facing teams to service customers better
• Constantly working on security features so that the Bitcoin we have in custody is always safe
• 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
• Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking night calls to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding and experience working in Bitcoin or centralized financial industry
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• IT equipment support for work
• Meal & Commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
• Snacks: on-the-house in the Bangalore office
• Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with