Backend Engineer E3 - Ecosystem

BitGo; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

IT equipment support for work

Meal and commute allowance

Medical Insurance

Well-being allowance

Snacks: Bangalore office

Learning and growth opportunities

Job summary

BitGo is seeking a Backend Engineer - E3 to join our Bengaluru-based engineering team. You will design and build robust APIs, libraries, and services powering our financial services stack, with ownership from inception to deployment and customer integration.

Expect close collaboration with global teams and mentorship within the engineering group. The role emphasizes strong backend skills, API design, testing, and experience with microservices.

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of back-end, server-side development.
• Strong algorithm design and complexity analysis skills.
• Proficient in server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Experience with RESTful API design and testing.
• Familiar with microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Git/GitHub, CI tools, and project tools (JIRA/Confluence).
• Able to coordinate with globally distributed teams including US time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust APIs, libraries, and services for financial applications.
• Own features from inception to deployment and customer integration.
• Expose functionality to UI, third-party developers, and internal/external tooling.
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to ensure quality and consistency.
• Mentor peers through code reviews and best-practice education.

Skills

Back-end development

Algorithm design

Problem solving

RESTful API design

Unit & integration testing

Microservices

Distributed systems

Independent working

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Git/GitHub

CI/CD tooling

JIRA & Confluence

Job description

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

BitGo is looking for a Backend Engineer - E3 who will join our Engineering team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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 closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
• 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 back-end, server-side software development
• 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
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
• Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking night calls to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team

Preferred

• Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
• 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.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

• Competitive salary
• IT equipment support for work
• Meal and commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprised 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. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

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