Senior Software Engineer - HeightZero

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

This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco 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 6 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.