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. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our New York City office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
BitGo is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to join our Go Network organization and help us build resilient, robust services and are responsible for working on critical projects with limited or no supervision.
Responsibilities:
- Build, lead, and develop a team of talented and high-impact engineers, providing cultural, technical, and hands-on leadership
- Grow the team and actively help shape the culture of open communication, craftsmanship, and ownership
- Take direct responsibility for quality and delivery of the team’s work
- Own all technology and services that power BitGo Prime, including trading, lending, settlement and more
- Act as a strong, positive bridge between engineering teams and product operations, support, compliance, and business stakeholders
- Own, drive, and be accountable to KPIs pertaining to efficiency of internal operations, aspects of client experience, and service uptime
- Facilitate thorough documentation and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with management and product teams to plan, estimate, and prioritize roadmap objectives
- Align the team to broader company objectives and client expectations
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
- Work experience as a tech lead, manager or similar senior-level position at an engineering department
- 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, 2-4 years in a managerial role leading engineers
- Strong desire to automate where possible and build tooling for a more efficient workflow
- Strong debugging skills and ability to grasp the interconnected nature of complex systems
- Proven experience sourcing and hiring top engineering talent
- Experience working in a cross-team environment, collaborating with and enabling other functions to drive broader departmental goals
- A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
- Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
Preferred
- Experience with NodeJS, TypeScript, Go, Postgres, React and Kafka
- 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
- Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc.
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.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 - $240,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.
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
- 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
*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.
Top Skills
What We Do
BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors and crypto platforms with liquidity, custody, and security.
In 2020, the company reached new milestones with the launch of BitGo Prime, the first and only deeply integrated, full-stack solution with custody, trading and lending. With the launch of BitGo Portfolio and BitGo Tax, the company also manages activities across wallets, exchanges and service providers.
In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes over 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 250 coins and tokens. BitGo’s customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries, including qualified custodial entities in Switzerland and Germany.
BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.
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