Staff Software Engineer

Summary

BitGo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on their HeightZero team, designing and building APIs, libraries, and services related to blockchains. The role requires at least 8 years of backend software development experience, independence, ownership, strong TypeScript/Node.JS skills, and database experience. Preferred skills include understanding of the blockchain and security industry, microservices, AWS Amplify, ELB, EC2, and building distributed systems that scale.

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
• Great at providing simple and extensible abstractions to complex systems
• 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