Senior Software Engineer - Crypto as a Service Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their innovative Crypto as a Service Team. This exciting role involves designing and building scalable APIs and services that empower businesses and developers in the digital asset space. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define new features, ensuring the performance and quality of applications. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a transformative platform in the financial services industry. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect role for you.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of back-end and server-side development experience.
• Strong experience in algorithm design and problem-solving.
• Proven ability to build public-facing APIs in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable APIs and services for our platform.
• Collaborate with teams to define and ship new features.
• Mentor peers through code reviews and best practices.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Express

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kotlin

Java

RESTful API design

Microservices

Git/GitHub

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Applied mathematics

Tools

Spring framework

CI tools

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Crypto as a Service

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 to join our Crypto as a Service Team and help us build an API -first platform for businesses and developers to launch crypto products.

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 TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong development experience with any of the JVM languages, preferably Kotlin or Java
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
• Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment
• 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

Preferred:

• Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
• Development experience building microservices in Spring framework
• Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React
• Experience working with clients and/or business partners
• 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.

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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