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BitGo

Senior Software Engineer - HSM

full-time•Palo Alto•$180k - $220k

Summary

Location

Palo Alto

Salary

$180k - $220k

Type

full-time

Experience

5-10 years

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About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="http://www.bitgo.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://www.bitgo.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.bitgo.com</a>.</p></div><p><em>This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.</em></p> <p>BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our HSM team and help us build an API-first platform for businesses and developers to launch crypto products.</p> <h3>Responsibilities:</h3> <ul> <li>Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our API-first platform</li> <li>Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration</li> <li>Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features</li> <li>Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code</li> <li>Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications</li> <li>Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs</li> <li>Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency</li> <li>Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement</li> <li>Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements</li> <li>Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices</li> </ul> <h3>Skills &amp; Experience:&nbsp;</h3> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Required:</h3> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Cryptography, or a related field</li> <li>At least 6 years of proven experience in designing and implementing cryptographic solutions for enterprise-level systems in back-end and/or server-side development</li> <li>Strong understanding of cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as RSA, ECC, AES, and SHA</li> <li>Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis</li> <li>Strong experience with C, C++ or Rust</li> <li>Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and MongoDB</li> <li>Strong experience with RESTful API design</li> <li>Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures</li> <li>Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging</li> <li>Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.</li> <li>Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment</li> <li>Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.</li> </ul> <h3>Preferred:</h3> <ul> <li>Familiarity with security best practices and standards, such as ISO 27001, NIST, and FIPS.</li> <li>Experience working in cryptography, with a focus on TSS and MPC.</li> <li>Understanding of and experience working in cryptocurrencies and blockchain or centralized financial industry</li> </ul> <h3>Why Join BitGo?</h3> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Pay Transparency Notice:</strong> Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 - $220,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.&nbsp;</p> <p>Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:</p> <ul> <li>Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options</li> <li>100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents</li> <li>Up to 4% 401k company match</li> <li>Paid parental leave, Paid vacation</li> <li>Free commuter/parking pass; 5 minutes from Caltrain</li> <li>Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks&nbsp;</li> <li>Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs</li> <li>Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment</li> </ul> <p>*Benefits may vary based on location&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p>

What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable APIs and services for an API-first platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and ship new features while ensuring application performance and quality.

About BitGo

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 8% 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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