About the position
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. This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
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
Requirements
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- Strong understanding of fundamental Bitcoin blockchain mechanics
- Programming and debugging skills using Node.JS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- 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
Benefits
- 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
