Senior Ledger Architect - Crypto Finance & Accounting

CryptoproNetwork; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

401k company match

Parental leave

Paid vacation

Commuter/parking benefits

Lunches and snacks

Equipment and workstation furniture

Job summary

BitGo seeks a seasoned engineer with accounting fundamentals to design and extend our core ledger and reporting surfaces. You will bridge on-chain data and off-chain books, ensuring balance verification and reconciliation while modeling ownership and pricing for future financial products.

Collaborate with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product to maintain robust, extensible data models and APIs that scale with new crypto offerings.

Qualifications

• Real, working knowledge of accounting fundamentals: double-entry bookkeeping, chart-of-accounts, financial statements.
• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with data-model design.
• Strong instincts for extensible system design and scalable schemas/APIs.
• Comfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems.
• Strong cross-functional communication with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product.

Responsibilities

• Design and extend BitGo's core ledger — accounts, postings, and ledger structures.
• Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface that connects data to financial statements.
• Work across on-chain data and off-chain books: balance verification, reconciliation, proof-of-reserve style mechanisms.
• Partner with engineering teams early in design to model ownership, ledger placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths.
• Design data models that absorb new financial products with minimal migrations.

Skills

Accounting fundamentals

Backend software engineering

Extensible system design

Technical design critique

Cross-functional communication

Job description

BitGo seeks a seasoned engineer with accounting fundamentals to design and extend our core ledger and reporting surfaces. You will bridge on-chain data and off-chain books, ensuring balance verification and reconciliation while modeling ownership and pricing for future financial products.

Collaborate with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product to maintain robust, extensible data models and APIs that scale with new crypto offerings.