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, visit www.bitgo.com.
Responsibilities:
- Deeply understand how developers use Node.js and TypeScript at BitGo to create optimal solutions and abstractions for their use cases, driving and evolving recommended practices.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable platform services and Node.js-based tooling to support BitGo’s high-performance custody, wallet, and financial services platforms.
- Provide and integrate the libraries, frameworks, and workflows that enable developers to build software efficiently within the BitGo ecosystem.
- Develop tools and workflows to improve engineering velocity, including deployment pipelines, testing frameworks, and service abstractions.
- Continuously improve operational excellence through a culture of learning and proactive investments in reliability and resiliency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain standards for API design, platform performance, and overall system architecture.
Required:
- Deep expertise in Node.js, npm, and TypeScript, with a focus on developing reliable backend systems.
- Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and familiarity with API lifecycle management.
- Strong testing and debugging skills.
- Proficient with Git, CI/CD tools, and agile development practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field.
Preferred:
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures.
- Knowledge of containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience improving developer productivity through internal tooling or frameworks.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and experience with event streaming platforms like Kafka.
- Ability to create clarity and drive alignment across stakeholder groups.
- A curious and proactive learner.
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
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.
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.
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BitGo Palo Alto, California, USA Office
Palo Alto, CA, United States, 94306
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