Backend Engineer E2 - Ecosystem

BitGo; India; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

IT equipment support for work

Meal & Commute allowance

Medical Insurance

Well-being allowance

Snacks : Bangalore office

Job summary

BitGo in Bangalore, India, is hiring a Backend Engineer - E2 to join our Ecosystem Vertical and help us build an API-first platform for crypto products. You will design scalable APIs, own features from inception to deployment, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

The role requires 3+ years backend experience, proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and REST APIs, plus a passion for blockchain.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend/server-side development experience.
• Strong algorithm design and complexity analysis skills.
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js and Express.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with microservices architectures and testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable APIs, libraries, and services for API-first platform.
• Own features from inception to deployment and customer integration.
• Document functionality for UI, developers, and tooling.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure performance and quality.
• Mentor peers through code reviews and best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Algorithms & complexity

RESTful API design

Node.js

TypeScript

Express

Database experience

Testing & debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI tools

Microservices

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 .

BitGo is looking for a Backend Engineer - E2 to join our Ecosystem Vertical 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:

• At least 3+ 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
• 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 Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products
• Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
• 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 open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

• Competitive salary
• IT equipment support for work
• Meal & Commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
• Snacks : on-the-house in the Bangalore office
• Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years.

Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.