Senior Backend Engineer - Activate

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India
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at BitGo, you will design and support APIs and services for our settlement product, manage technical architecture, collaborate with engineering teams, and mentor peers. The role requires strong problem-solving skills and experience in server-side development and database management.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will join our Engineering team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients. 

Responsibilities:

  • Design,build, and support strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our settlement product
  • Responsible for managing BitGo’s technical architecture
  • 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 a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets. 

Required

  • At least 3+ 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, etc.
  • 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
  • Strong spoken English skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
  • Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking night calls to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team

Preferred

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript
  • 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
  • Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain 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 open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want 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
  • IT equipment support for work
  • Meal & Commute allowance
  • Medical Insurance
  • Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
  • Snacks : on-the-house in the Bangalore office
  • 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 finance.

 

Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.

Top Skills

Node.js
Typescript
The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
293 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

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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