Staff Software Engineer, Bitgo
HeightZero
$185-235k
+ Bonus and stock options
More information about location
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Job no longer available
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$185-235k
+ Bonus and stock options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
The digital asset industry is maturing, with asset companies looking to shore up their positions by adding secure custody capabilities. This is good news for BitGo, an independent, regulated cryptocurrency custodian company providing security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
BitGo’s flagship multi-signature wallet solution helps its clients mitigate risk and optimise capital efficiency. The company has subsequently expanded to also cover a number of areas that are critical for any holder of major crypto assets, like portfolio and tax management. In this, BitGo was smart to focus exclusively on institutional clients: there’s a huge appetite among larger players to expedite the mainstreaming of crypto, and they’ll need precisely BitGo’s tools to get there.
BitGo was in talks to be acquired by PayPal, and most recently, by Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. Despite a rocky 2024 for the digital assets (which now sees BitGo suing Galaxy Digital for pulling out of the acquisition deal), BitGo has manoeuvred itself into a central position to capitalise on what, now, seems a near-inevitable period of mass adoption.
Exemplifying this, the BitGo Ventures wing of the company was launched in 2024 to partner with and invest in cutting-edge blockchain and fintech startups, whilst the company saw revenue rocket to $4.19 billion in H1 2025. It completed an IPO bid in Q1 26, which is fitting considering its growth
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Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170.5m
Company benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
- Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
- Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
- Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
- Top-end computer equipment to power your work
- Flexible vacation time
- Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
Company HQ
Downtown, Sioux Falls, SD
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Director of Engineering at Good Technology, who went on to found Cookout Software - and then move to Google as a Software Engineer/Development Manager when the latter company bought out the startup. Has served as BitGo CEO for over a decade.
Ben Davenport
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has spent time as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and worked on algorithm development at Hudson River Trading. Additionally co-founded and led Beluga, a mobile group messaging solution that was ultimately bought by Facebook, and became Facebook Messenger.
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