About the company
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.
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
📍Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our API-first 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
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 6 years of proven experience of back-end and server-side development 📍Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis 📍Strong experience with of TypeScript, Node.js and Express 📍Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB 📍Strong experience with RESTful API design 📍Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures 📍Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
