Staff Software Engineer - HeightZero
BitGo
Estimated Salary: $112K-$188K
Location: CA Palo Alto, California, United States
BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 1,000 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners. In 2023 BitGo acquired HeightZero. HeightZero is a technology platform that allows financial institutions the ability to invest in digital assets on behalf of their clients. HeightZero also offers token management to foundations and new digital assets which includes employee grant management, staking services, vesting schedules, tax withholding, token distributions, and numerous other services.
BitGo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our HeightZero team. We work from the office (Palo Alto, CA) 3 days per week, on Tuesday and Thursday you're welcome to work remotely.
Responsibilities:
Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to integrate blockchains and BitGo functionality into our HeightZero products.
Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from research, implementation to deployment.
Build integration libraries and SDKs to interface with our server and APIs
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
At least 8 years of backend software development
Ability to work and think independently in a fast-paced environment
Discipline and ownership of one’s efforts
Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS
Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
Great at providing simple and extensible abstractions to complex systems
Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc
Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience working with designing and implementing various types of databases
Preferred
Understanding of and experience working in the blockchain and / or security industry
Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
Familiarity with AWS Amplify, ELB, and EC2
Have real world experience building distributed systems that scale
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 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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