BitGo is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

BitGo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for their HeightZero team. The role involves designing and building scalable APIs, libraries, and services related to blockchains and BitGo functionality. The employee will work from the Palo Alto office 3 days per week with remote options on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of backend software development
• Ability to work and think independently in a fast-paced environment
• Discipline and ownership of one’s efforts
• Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS
• Great at unit and functional testing and debugging
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience working with designing and implementing various types of databases

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to integrate blockchains and BitGo functionality into HeightZero products
• Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from research, implementation to deployment
• Build integration libraries and SDKs to interface with our server and APIs
• Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
• Collaborate closely with all engineering teams and product managers 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

• Understanding of and experience working in the blockchain and / or security industry
• Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Familiarity with AWS Amplify, ELB, and EC2
• Have real world experience building distributed systems that scale

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