Summary

BitGo is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer, who will join our team in Bangalore, India. 

Responsibilities:

• Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our wallet services: hot and cold wallets, indexing, staking, and SDK services
• Responsible for managing BitGos technical architecture
• Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
• Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
• Collaborate closely with all engineering teams 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
• Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking calls in the PST/ EST timezone to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team.

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

• At least 8+ years of back-end, server-side software development
• Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong experience with Node.JS, JavaScript, Java, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Strong spoken English skills
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Bachelors degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university

Preferred

• Understanding and experience working in defi or centralized financial industry
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry 
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, TypeScript6

Skills

• Database Management
• Development
• Problem Solving
• Software Engineering