Computer Science Jobs at BitGo

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.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our blockchain team and help us build a robust and scalable system to integrate new and existing blockchains .This role can be worked remotely so long as your home base is metro Toronto, Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with different blockchain experts to improve functionality on a variety of projects for multiple coins
• Develop enhancements and fix product features
• Collaborate closely with the technical support team to detect trends among support tickets to identify common root causes
• Develop tooling to automate the detection and resolution of inconsistencies, as well as automate root cause analysis of issues and inconsistencies.
• Lead projects and mentor junior developers

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 5 years of back-end, server-side software development
• Strong programming skills in Javascript & Typescript
• Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
• Great at providing simple and extensible abstractions to complex systems.
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
• 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
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Have been a team lead and mentored junior developers

Preferred

• Understanding of and experience working in the blockchain industry
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React and Databases (MongoDB)
• Familiarity with Docker and 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.

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
• Up to 4% 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 may 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.