Senior Software Engineer - Bitcoin Team

BitGo; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the digital asset sector is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Bitcoin Team in Toronto. The ideal candidate will develop and enhance Bitcoin products while ensuring scalability, security, and reliability in high-volume transactions. This full-time role focuses on innovative solutions within a collaborative environment, offering competitive salary opportunities and equity options.

Benefits

Equity options

Annual performance bonus

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
• Comfortable with API design philosophy.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Enhance multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with the latest features.
• Maintain existing backend software integrating with the Bitcoin blockchain.
• Contribute Bitcoin knowledge throughout the engineering team.

Skills

Full-Stack software development

API design

Git and GitHub code review

Testing

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

Node.JS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

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BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will join our Bitcoin Team. BitGo processes a significant amount of cryptocurrency transactions so our applications need to be fast, accurate, scalable and secure. Our integrated platforms interact with a number of exchanges, agencies, and governments around the world, and we use the best technology the industry offers to build them.

Responsibilities

• Enhance our multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with the latest Bitcoin features, at the scale of billions of dollars per month
• Own the functionality, scalability and performance of the systems which support our Bitcoin products
• Improve, extend and maintain existing backend software which integrates with the Bitcoin blockchain
• Contribute Bitcoin knowledge and expertise throughout the engineering team
• Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
  
  

Skills & Experience

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, and craftsmanship, and who feel passionate about our mission to deliver trust in digital assets.

Required

• 5+ years of Full-Stack software development experience
• Thoughtful, minimalistic and sound API design philosophy
• Comfortable with git and Github-based code review
• Passion for enabling cutting-edge Bitcoin features at scale
• Believes in testing twice (or more), and shipping once
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Preferred

• Strong understanding of fundamental Bitcoin blockchain mechanics
• Programming and debugging skills using Node.JS, JavaScript, and Typescript
• Familiarity with emerging Bitcoin features, such as Taproot, Descriptors, Lightning
• Non-trivial contributions to Bitcoin-related open source software
• Experience with developing containerized applications running in 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.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 - $240,000 CAD base salary. Equity and an annual performance bonus are also a part of this role's package.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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