Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Custody

Bitgo
San Francisco, CA

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 .

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

BitGo is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Go Accounts (Custody) organization and help us build resilient, robust services that enable customers to securely store and access their cryptocurrency while meeting compliance requirements around the world.

Responsibilities:


  • Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our API-first platform

  • 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 with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement

  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements

  • Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices

Skills & Experience:

We're seeking forward-thinking engineers excited to build at the forefront of the crypto space, while proactively embracing AI to amplify their impact and output. Our team values open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We're looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: to deliver trust in digital assets.

Required


  • Experience and a strong interest in fintech, cryptocurrency, or blockchain technology

  • Enthusiasm for exploring and integrating AI-powered coding assistants and tools.

  • At least 6 years of proven experience in back-end and server-side development

  • Great at algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis

  • Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

  • Strong experience with RESTful API design

  • Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures

  • Experience with event-driven architectures

  • Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging

  • Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university

Preferred


  • Familiarity with ledgering system concepts or their application in traditional FinTech or banking environments.

  • Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products

  • Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment

  • Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React

  • Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, DeFi protocols, smart contracts, token standards.

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 $180,000 - $210,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.

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

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.

Posted 2025-09-22

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