Web3 Jobs in Palo Alto, California, United States

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 to join our Prime services organization and help us build resilient, robust services and are responsible for working on critical projects with limited or no supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our financial services: clearing and settlement, digital asset lending, trading and liquidity
• 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 closely with all engineering teams and product managers 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 a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets.

Required:

• Experience with server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/Node.JS, Java, Python, etc.
• Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
• Experience with SQL databases like MySQL or Postgres
• Confident with RESTful API design
• Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
• 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

Preferred:

• At least 2 years of back-end, server-side software development
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
• Familiarity with Containers and Kubernetes
• Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry
• Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc

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 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

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.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $150,000 - $200,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.