📝 DRAFT — Blockchain Engineer at BitGo

Blockchain Engineer BitGo 💼 Tech ⏰ Full Time 🌍 Austin, TX or Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA or New York, NY

posted 1233 days ago ✅ 10 applications

About the Job

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. In 2020, BitGo launched Prime Trading and Lending, as well as BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. 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 institutional investors and spans more than 50 countries. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

BitGo is looking for a Software Engineer who will join our Blockchain team in the US.

Responsibilities:

Integrate with various blockchains to add support for new coins within BitGo's wallet platform
Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from the inception to deployment and customer integration
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 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 high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets.

Required

4+ years of server-side, back-end web development
Strong programming skills in Java
Knows at least 2 other languages; language agnostic (Node.JS, Golang, etc.)
Experience with RESTful API design
Strong unit and functional testing and debugging skills
Deep understanding of algorithm design
Excellent problem solving skills; complexity analysis

Nice to have

Understanding or experience with Typescript, Mongo, Docker, and Kubernetes
Understanding, interest and experience with cryptocurrencies and blockchains

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
5% 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 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.