Senior Software Engineer - Bitcoin Team New Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Job summary

A leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) to join their Bitcoin Team in Toronto. The role involves enhancing Bitcoin wallets, maintaining backend software, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in software development and a passion for Bitcoin technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Full-Stack software development experience.
• Comfortable with git and Github-based code review.
• Strong understanding of fundamental Bitcoin blockchain mechanics.

Responsibilities

• Enhance multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with the latest features.
• Own functionality and performance of systems supporting Bitcoin products.
• Contribute Bitcoin knowledge throughout the engineering team.

Skills

API design

Git

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

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, visitwww.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 (Full-Stack)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
• 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.

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