Golang Web3 Jobs in Asia

About the job

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched 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 approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. 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 Technical Lead 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
• Lead the end-to-end technical strategy and execution for BitGo’s core products, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Provide architectural oversight for system design, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and align with best practices.
• Ensure the implementation of robust coding standards, code reviews, and continuous integration practices across the team.
• Lead initiatives to refactor existing systems for improved performance, maintainability, and scalability.

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 8+ years of back-end, server-side software development
• Prior experience in a Technical Lead or similar leadership role
• Demonstrated ability to design and architect scalable, high-performance, and secure systems from the ground up.
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, microservices, and RESTful API design.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
• Strong experience with Node.JS, JavaScript, Java, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• 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, Golang, 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
• Hybrid working model
• 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

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.