Senior Software Engineer
Overview
BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry’s top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world.
About the Role
BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will join our Bitcoin Team. BitGo processes a significant amount of cryptocurrency transactions so our applications need to be fast, accurate, scalable and secure. Our integrated platforms interact with a number of exchanges, agencies, and governments around the world, and we use the best technology the industry offers to build them.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Enhance our multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with the latest Bitcoin features, at the scale of billions of dollars per month
- Own the functionality, scalability and performance of the systems which support our Bitcoin products
- Improve, extend and maintain existing backend software which integrates with the Bitcoin blockchain
- Contribute Bitcoin knowledge and expertise throughout the engineering team
- Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of Full-Stack software development experience
- Thoughtful, minimalistic and sound API design philosophy
- Comfortable with git and Github-based code review
- Passion for enabling cutting-edge Bitcoin features at scale
- Believes in testing twice (or more), and shipping once
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Skills
- Strong understanding of fundamental Bitcoin blockchain mechanics
- Programming and debugging skills using Node.JS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- Familiarity with emerging Bitcoin features, such as Taproot, Descriptors, Lightning
- Non-trivial contributions to Bitcoin-related open source software
- Experience with developing containerized applications running in Kubernetes
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
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
*Benefits may vary based on location.
Compensation
Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $165,000 - $210,000 USD (Bay Area candidates) or $180,000 - $240,000 CAD (Toronto candidates) base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined above are also a part of this role’s package.
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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