Senior Backend Engineer - Bitcoin At BitGo

Job Description

About The Company

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will join our Blockchain Team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team of BitGo's India presence. BitGo's India team will be working closely with other talented engineers, product managers, and security experts. 

Job Short Description

Responsibilities:

  • Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our wallet services: hot and cold wallets, indexing, staking, and SDK services
  • 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

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and high level of craftsmanship. 

Required:

  • At least 5 years of back-end, server-side software development
  • Bitcoin/Crypto experience
  • Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Strong experience with Node.JS, JavaScript, Java, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
  • Strong experience with RESTful API design
  • Strong communication kills
  • Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university

Preferred

  • Understanding and experience working in defi or centralized financial industry
  • Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry 
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, TypeScript

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

  • Competitive salary
  • Meal & Commute allowance
  • Medical Insurance
  • Hybrid working model
  • IT equipment support for work
  • Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

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Job Position Information
  • Company:
    BitGo
  • Job Category:
    Engineering
  • Location
    Remote
  • Job Type
    Full Time
  • Date Posted
    28 Aug, 2023

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