BitGo is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

BitGo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their Prime Engineering team and help build new features and applications for enterprise clients. The role requires 8+ years of back-end software development experience, strong skills in TypeScript/Node.JS, SQL databases, RESTful API design, unit and functional testing, microservices, Git/GitHub, and other technical tools. Preferred qualifications include experience in Financial Services, asynchronous programming, functional programming, digital asset trading, and familiarity with React.

Requirements

• 8+ 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 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