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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 400 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.

About the Role:

As a Backend Engineer (Intern), you will play an important role in building out significant parts of BitGo's infrastructure, applications and experiences. We are hiring across our product engineering and blockchain engineering teams where you’ll gain a unique look into the cryptocurrency industry.

We're currently looking for Summer and Fall 2022 Interns to join our Blockchain, Custody, & Product teams!

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Having a dedicated mentor who will help you navigate through BitGo as a whole. From onboarding you on to our tech stack to teaching you about the crypto domain, your mentor will get you ramped up and ready to make an impact- all while showing you what it means to be at BitGo!
• Lead features from inception to launch
• Work across the entire stack using cutting edge frameworks and tools, own execution
• Partnering with various cross-functional teams to solve critical problems across the BitGo organization and product

About You:

• Must be currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program with an expected graduation date in 2023
• Strong CS Fundamentals
• Passion and interest for Crypto and Blockchain

Bonus Points:

• Prior software engineering experience from internships, hackathons, or other side projects
• Familiarity with Javascript/TypeScript
• Product intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions

Technologies We Use:

• TypeScript/NodeJS and Go are the main languages and frameworks of choice
• PostgreSQL/MongoDB as our primary data store
• Kafka for event streaming
• Redis as our caching layer
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kubernetes

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.

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.