Software Engineer

BitGo • Full-time • Toronto • 5d ago

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing and settlement out of regulated cold storage. Founded in 2013, BitGo is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. BitGo is dedicated to advancing a digital financial services economy that is borderless and accessible 24/7. With multiple Trust companies around the world, BitGo is the preferred security and operational backbone for more than 1,500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many of the world’s top brands, cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo also secures approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value and is the largest independent digital asset custodian. For more information, please visit www.bitgo.com.

BitGo is growing our Toronto based hub and hiring Software Engineers for across multiple teams. We're building robust and scalable systems to integrate new and existing blockchains, enabling secure custody and staking of funds totaling billions of dollars. We seek candidates with autonomy, a security-first mindset, expertise in distributed systems, and an understanding of the cryptocurrency landscape. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology and have experience in building scalable software, join us at BitGo to shape the future of digital assets.

Responsibilities:

Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to integrate blockchains and staking functionality into our custody platforms and power our financial services
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

Skills & Experience:

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets.

Required:

Experience with server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/Node.JS, Java
Experience with SQL databases like MySQL or Postgres
Confident with RESTful API design
Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.

Preferred:

Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
Familiarity with Containers and Kubernetes
Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry

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 base salary, bonus and stock options
100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
*Benefits may vary based on location

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.