Software Engineer - Prime Trade

BitGo; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is revolutionizing the financial services industry. This exciting role involves designing resilient APIs and services that power innovative financial solutions. With a focus on collaboration and technical excellence, you'll work with a team that values craftsmanship and open communication. As a key player in the digital asset space, you'll contribute to the transformation of investing while enjoying a competitive salary and benefits package. If you're passionate about technology and want to make a real impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of back-end software development experience.
• Strong experience with server-side languages and SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust APIs and services for financial applications.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure quality and consistency.

Skills

Back-end Software Development

Financial Services Experience

Algorithm Design

TypeScript/Node.js

SQL Databases (Postgres/MySQL)

RESTful API Design

Unit and Functional Testing

Microservices Architecture

Git/GitHub

Problem Solving

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

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, 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.

Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration.
3. Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling.
4. Collaborate closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality.
5. 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

• 3+ years of back-end, server-side software development.
• Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology.
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.js.
• Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL.
• Strong experience with RESTful API design.
• Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging.
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support.

Preferred

• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience with functional programming.
• Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions.
• Familiarity with digital asset trading, lending, and/or wallets.
• Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React.
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications.
• Experience working with clients and/or business partners.
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry.

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.

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 $180,000 - $220,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also a part of this role's package.

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