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.
BitGo is looking for a Backend Engineer E3 who will join our Trade Team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team of BitGo's India presence. BitGo's India team will be working closely with other talented engineers, product managers, and security experts.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our financial services: clearing and settlement, digital asset lending, trading and liquidity
- Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
- Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
- Collaborate closely with all engineering teams, including our global team in the U.S., to ensure a consistent understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality, effectively navigating different time zones
- Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
Skills & Experience:
We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets.
Required:
- At least 7-9 years of back-end, server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/ Node.JS, Java, Python, etc.
- Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
- Strong experience with SQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and NOSQL databases like MongoDB
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI/CD tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
- Ability to work autonomously and be a self-starter, proactively learning, debugging, and understanding complex systems.
- Excels at solving hard, ambiguous problems and is committed to building robust, foundational systems that will scale with the business.
- Acts as a technical mentor, elevating the skills of their peers and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.
Preferred
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
- Familiarity with Containers, Kubernetes, Docker
- Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry or familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc
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.This is a foundational role for BitGo Trade team, offering a unique opportunity to build and grow your career.
Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:
- Competitive salary
- IT equipment support for work
- Meal & Commute allowance
- Medical Insurance
- Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
- Snacks: on-the-house in the Bangalore office
- Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with and inspiring startup environment
Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.
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