Backend Engineer E2 - Trade & Financing

BitGo is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will join our Engineering team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients. 

Responsibilities:

1. Design,build, and support strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our settlement product
2. Responsible for managing BitGo’s technical architecture
3. Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
4. Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
5. Collaborate closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
6. 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

1. At least 3+ years of back-end, server-side software development
2. Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
3. Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS, etc.
4. Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
5. Strong experience with RESTful API design
6. Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
7. Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
8. Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
9. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
10. Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support
11. Strong spoken English skills
12. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
13. Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking night calls to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team

Preferred

1. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript
2. Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology 
3. Experience with asynchronous programming
4. Experience with functional programming
5. Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
6. Familiarity with digital asset trading, lending, and/or wallets
7. Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React 
8. Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
9. Experience working with clients and/or business partners
10. Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry