Senior Software Engineer - Custody Experience (Full-Stack)

About the position

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Custody Experiences team and help us build a custodial platform for businesses and customers to trade, stake, and manage crypto products. This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our custodial platform
• 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 with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements
• Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices

Requirements

• 6+ years of proven experience of back-end and server-side development
• Leads or significantly contributes to medium-to-large initiatives including multi-person projects
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js and Kotlin
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Strong experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Champion of unit and functional testing
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
• Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
• Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products
• Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
• Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React
• Experience working with clients and/or business partners
• Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc

Benefits

• 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 commuter/parking pass; 5 min from Caltrain
• 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