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 Backend Engineer E2 who will join our team in Bangalore, India.
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 external tooling
- Improve internal workflows by adding tooling to make it easier for BitGo’s client facing teams to service customers better
- Constantly working on security features so that the Bitcoin we have in custody is always safe
- 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
- 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
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 Node.JS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Strong spoken English skills
- 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 Bitcoin or centralized financial industry
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, 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 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
Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.
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.
