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Staff Software Engineer - HeightZero

AT BitGo
BitGo

Staff Software Engineer - HeightZero

Palo Alto, CA

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing and settlement out of regulated cold storage. Founded in 2013, BitGo is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. BitGo is dedicated to advancing a digital financial services economy that is borderless and accessible 24/7. With multiple Trust companies around the world, BitGo is the preferred security and operational backbone for more than 1,500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many of the world’s top brands, cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo also secures approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value and is the largest independent digital asset custodian. For more information, please visit www.bitgo.com.

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BitGo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our HeightZero team. 

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

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.

Client-provided location(s): Palo Alto, CA, USA
Job ID: 7763851002
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Company Outings
    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Paid Vacation
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Lunch and Learns

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