Senior Software Engineer, Bitgo
Developer Experience
$165-210k
+ Bonus and stock options
5 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Job no longer available
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$165-210k
+ Bonus and stock options
5 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of proven experience of back-end and server-side development
- Deep expertise in API design and management, including REST, OpenAPI, and SDK development
- Experience managing API change processes that minimize client disruption and ensure smooth transitions
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js expertise, particularly in backend service development
- Experience maintaining SDKs and API clients, with a focus on security, usability, and developer experience
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a high degree of empathy for external developers
- Comfortable talking directly to clients (engineering teams integrating with our API) for feedback and insights
Desirable
- Experience working on API developer portals and documentation tooling
- Familiarity with tools for generating and maintaining OpenAPI specifications
- Strong data analysis skills, with experience tracking user journeys and using data to drive continuous improvement
- Background in developer relations, API product management, or related areas
- Knowledge of versioning strategies, deprecation policies, and backward compatibility principles
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and automation tools to improve API deployment processes
What the job involves
- Lead efforts to improve the developer experience for external clients integrating with BitGo’s APIs
- Continuously refine and enhance our API documentation portal to be best-in-class, ensuring clarity, completeness, and ease of use (in collaboration with technical writers)
- Define and maintain a structured process for API change management, ensuring external developers are informed in advance and minimizing disruption
- Establish and enforce best practices for API design, versioning, and deprecation strategies
- Maintain and extend the system that derives OpenAPI specifications from service implementations, ensuring accuracy and usability
- Own and improve the BitGoJS SDK and BitGo Express, ensuring security, usability, and consistency across integrations
- Track user journeys as developers integrate with our API, using data and direct client feedback to identify friction points and propose improvements that reduce time to successful integration
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and developer relations teams to drive alignment on API strategy and enhancements
- Implement feedback loops and directly engage with clients (engineers integrating with our API) to improve API usability and onboarding
- Drive initiatives to improve API discoverability, consistency, and developer tooling
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 optimize 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 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 Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. In spite of a rocky year 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 capitalize 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(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
(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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