BitGo is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Prime Engineering team in NYC. The role involves building APIs, libraries, and services for financial services, collaborating with engineering teams, and providing mentorship. Required skills include 5+ years of back-end software development, TypeScript/Node.JS, SQL databases, RESTful API design, unit and functional testing, microservices, Git/GitHub, and experience in JIRA, Confluence, etc. Preferred skills include experience in Financial Services, asynchronous programming, functional programming, financial accounting systems, digital asset trading, lending, and wallets, full-stack development, working with clients, and 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

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 custom lunches, dinners and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment