BitGo is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer in United States

Summary

BitGo is a digital asset financial services company that is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Prime Engineering team. The role involves designing and building APIs, libraries, and services, owning functionality and scalability features, exposing and documenting functionality, collaborating with engineering teams, and providing mentorship. Required skills include 5+ years of back-end software development, strong problem solving abilities, experience with server-side languages, SQL databases, RESTful API design, unit testing, microservices, Git/GitHub, ability to work independently, and comfortability with inclusion in on-call rotations. Preferred skills include experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology, asynchronous programming, functional programming, digital asset trading, lending, wallets, ability to work full-stack, React, large-scale applications, clients and business partners, understanding of cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry.

Requirements

• 5+ years of back-end, server-side software development
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS
• Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support

Responsibilities

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our financial services: clearing and settlement, digital asset lending, trading and liquidity
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
• Experience with asynchronous programming
• Experience with functional programming
• Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
• Familiarity with digital asset trading, lending, and/or wallets
• Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
• Experience working with clients and/or business partners
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry

Benefits

• 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