Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Backend

About the role

BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company offering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins and settlement services from regulated cold storage, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) for its Mobile team. The engineer will help build the first-time user experience for retail users. The position is full-time and requires being onsite at the Toronto office.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, well abstracted and robust APIs, libraries and services for an API-first platform
• Own functionality and scalability features from inception to deployment and customer integration
• Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers and internal and external tooling
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
• Write clean, maintainable and efficient code, and ensure application performance, quality and responsiveness
• Identify and fix bottlenecks and bugs, and continuously adopt new technologies to improve efficiency
• Take part in code reviews and mentor peers through code reviews and education on best practices
• Work with product managers and designers to refine product requirements

Required profile

• 6+ years of proven back-end and server-side development experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics or another technical discipline from a top university
• Strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
• Preferred: experience developing consumer-facing crypto products, building public-facing APIs in production, full-stack work with React, client-facing experience, and familiarity with digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading or accounting systems

Required skills

• TypeScript, Node.js and Express
• PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• RESTful API design and microservices
• Unit and functional testing, debugging, Git/GitHub, CI tools and code review tools

What we offer

• Base salary averaging between 180,000 and 220,000 CAD depending on level and location
• Equity, an annual performance bonus and benefits (benefits may vary by location)