Summary

BitGo is looking for a Backend Engineer E3 who will join our Financing Team and help us build new features and applications for our enterprise clients. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team of BitGo's India presence. BitGo's India team will be working closely with other talented engineers, product managers, and security experts. 

Responsibilities:

1. Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our financial services: clearing and settlement, digital asset lending, trading and liquidity
2. Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
3. Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
4. Collaborate closely with all engineering teams, including our global team in the U.S., to ensure a consistent understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality, effectively navigating different time zones
5. 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 7-9 years of back-end, server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/ Node.JS, Java, Python, etc.
2. Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
3. Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
4. Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry 
5. Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
6. Strong experience with SQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and NOSQL databases like MongoDB
7. Strong experience with RESTful API design
8. Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
9. Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI/CD tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
10. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
11. Ability to work autonomously and be a self-starter, proactively learning, debugging, and understanding complex systems.
12. Excels at solving hard, ambiguous problems and is committed to building robust, foundational systems that will scale with the business.
13. Acts as a technical mentor, elevating the skills of their peers and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.

Preferred

1. Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
2. Familiarity with Containers, Kubernetes, Docker
3. Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry or familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc

Skills

• Database Management
• Development
• Problem Solving
• Software Engineering
• SQL