Software Engineer - Trade

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Join the Trade team to design resilient financial services APIs and collaborate closely with engineers and product managers in a dynamic environment.

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.

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

BitGo is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Trade team and help us build resilient, robust services and are responsible for working on critical projects with limited or no supervision.

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 and product managers to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
  • 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

  • Experience with server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/Node.JS, Java, Python, etc.
  • Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
  • Experience with SQL databases like MySQL or Postgres
  • Confident with RESTful API design
  • Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
  • Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
  • Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
  • Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

  • At least 2 years of back-end, server-side software development
  • Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
  • Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
  • Familiarity with Containers and Kubernetes
  • Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry
  • 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.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $165,000 - $200,000 CAD base salary. Equity and an annual performance bonus are also a part of this role's package. 

BitGo is a pioneer in Bitcoin security, offering regulated custody, financial services, and core infrastructure for investors and builders in the digital asset economy. With over 700 institutional clients in 50 countries, BitGo processes 20% of global ...

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