Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401k match

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Parking pass

Free lunches

Job summary

BitGo is hiring a backend engineer to design and extend our core ledger, manage accounts, postings, and ledger structures that power our financial products. You will own the chart-of-accounts and the reporting surface aligning data with financial statements.

You will bridge on-chain data with off-chain books, perform reconciliation, and collaborate with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product to model ownership, placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths before shipping.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and chart-of-accounts design.
• 5+ years backend engineering with data-model ownership.
• Ability to design extensible schemas and APIs.
• Ability to review cross-system designs and provide critique.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Data Eng, and Product.

Responsibilities

• Design and extend core ledger structures for accounts and postings.
• Own chart-of-accounts and reporting surface mapping to financials.
• Bridge on-chain data with off-chain books: reconciliation and proofs.
• Collaborate with engineering early to model ownership, ledger placement, pricing.
• Design data models that support new financial products with minimal migrations.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Data-model design

Accounting fundamentals

Cross-functional communication

Technical design critique

Tools

Kafka

Event-driven

Accounting architecture

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.

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

What You’ll Do

• Design and extend our core ledger — accounts, postings, and the account-type/ledger structures that every financial product is built on.
• Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface that connects engineering data to financial statements and downstream reporting.
• Work across the boundary between on-chain data and off-chain books: balance verification, reconciliation, and proof-of-reserve style mechanisms.
• Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to make sure new features correctly model legal entity ownership, ledger placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths — before they ship, not after.
• Design data models that can absorb new financial products (margin, lending, staking, tokenized assets, and more) cleanly, without repeated painful migrations.

What We're Looking For

• Real, working knowledge of accounting fundamentals: double-entry bookkeeping, chart-of-accounts design, financial statements (P&L, balance sheet), and what reconciliation and audit actually require in practice.
• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a track record of owning data-model design for systems where correctness is the product, not just uptime.
• Strong instincts for extensible system design — schemas and APIs that can grow with new requirements instead of requiring repeated rework.
• Comfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems, not just writing your own.
• Strong cross-functional communication — you'll work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designs.

Nice to Have

• Experience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure — on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecture.
• Experience with event-driven or Kafka-based service architectures.
• Prior experience in an embedded "accounting architecture" or financial-systems design-review role at a fintech or crypto company.

Why Join BitGo?

• Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
• 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
• Up to 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
• Free commuter/parking pass
• Free custom lunches and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and an inspiring environment

Benefits may vary based on location.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 and $220,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also 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.