Senior Software Engineer - Bitcoin Team New San Francisco, California, United States

BitGo Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital asset solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Bitcoin Team. The role requires enhancing Bitcoin wallets and improving backend systems while collaborating in a dynamic team environment. Competitive salary and benefits are offered in a vibrant office culture focused on innovation.

Benefits

Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options

100% company paid health insurance

Up to 4% 401k company match

Paid parental leave and vacation

Free commuter/parking pass

Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks

Computer equipment provided

Inspirational startup environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Full-Stack software development experience.
• Thoughtful, minimalistic API design philosophy.
• Experience with containerized applications.

Responsibilities

• Enhance multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with latest features.
• Own functionality and performance of systems for Bitcoin products.
• Improve and maintain backend software integrating with the Bitcoin blockchain.

Skills

API design

Full-Stack software development

Git

Bitcoin feature scaling

Tools

Kubernetes

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, visitwww.bitgo.com .

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

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will join our Bitcoin Team. BitGo processes a significant amount of cryptocurrency transactions so our applications need to be fast, accurate, scalable and secure. Our integrated platforms interact with a number of exchanges, agencies, and governments around the world, and we use the best technology the industry offers to build them.

Responsibilities

• Enhance our multi-signature Bitcoin wallets with the latest Bitcoin features, at the scale of billions of dollars per month
• Own the functionality, scalability and performance of the systems which support our Bitcoin products
• Improve, extend and maintain existing backend software which integrates with the Bitcoin blockchain
• Contribute Bitcoin knowledge and expertise throughout the engineering team
• Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling

Skills & Experience

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, and craftsmanship, and who feel passionate about our mission to deliver trust in digital assets.

Required

• 5+ years of Full-Stack software development experience
• Thoughtful, minimalistic and sound API design philosophy
• Comfortable with git and Github-based code review
• Passion for enabling cutting-edge Bitcoin features at scale
• Believes in testing twice (or more), and shipping once
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

• Strong understanding of fundamental Bitcoin blockchain mechanics
• Familiarity with emerging Bitcoin features, such as Taproot, Descriptors, Lightning
• Non-trivial contributions to Bitcoin-related open source software
• Experience with developing containerized applications running in Kubernetes

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 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, dinners and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment

*Benefits may vary based on location.

Pay Transparency Notice:Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $165,000 - $210,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined above are also a 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.

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