Senior Software Engineer (Accounting & Ledger Systems)

Bitgo; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid medical, dental, and vis

Catered lunches and snacks

Caltrain passes

Stock options and 401k

Flexible vacation

Hybrid friendly

Top-end computer equipment

Job summary

BitGo in Palo Alto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve ledger systems supporting client balances, trading positions, and financial reporting. You will design double-entry ledger primitives and ensure financial correctness from day one, bridging software engineering with accounting principles.

You will own core ledger components, including accounts and posting structures, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to model legal entities, reconciliation paths, and new

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering with data-model design experience.
• Experience with event-driven architectures or Kafka-based systems.
• Crypto or blockchain infrastructure experience (on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecture).
• Strong knowledge of accounting fundamentals: double-entry bookkeeping and financial reporting implications.
• Ability to critique designs across multiple systems and advocate extensible data models.

Responsibilities

• Design and extend the core ledger data model, including accounts, postings, and ledger structures.
• Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface linking engineering data to financial statements.
• Align designs with on-chain/off-chain balance verification and reconciliation workflows.
• Collaborate with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product early in the design process to model ownership and reconciliation paths.
• Develop scalable schemas and APIs to accommodate new financial products and migrations.

Skills

Backend development

Data-model design

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

Crypto / blockchain

Accounting fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Job description

• This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving
• BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the ledger systems behind our clients’ balances, trading positions, and financial reporting
• You’ll work at the intersection of software engineering and accounting — designing the double-entry ledger primitives that other engineering teams build on, and making sure new products are designed with financial correctness in mind from day one rather than retrofitted after launch
• 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

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
• Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
• Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
• Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
• Flexible vacation time
• Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
• Top-end computer equipment to power your work

This is a rare role for someone who genuinely understands accounting fundamentals and wants to apply that knowledge to hard distributed-systems problems in a live financial platformComfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems, not just writing your ownStrong cross-functional communication — you’ll work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designsStrong instincts for extensible system design — schemas and APIs that can grow with new requirements instead of requiring repeated reworkReal, 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 practice5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a track record of owning data-model design for systems where correctness is the product, not just uptimeExperience with event-driven or Kafka-based service architecturesExperience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure — on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecturePrior experience in an embedded “accounting architecture” or financial-systems design-review role at a fintech or crypto company