Senior Software Engineer – Velocity
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BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry’s top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
What We’re Looking For:
We’re seeking a thoughtful problem-solver who can anticipate engineering challenges before they arise and develop elegant solutions that delight our engineering teams. You’ll join a team that defines best practices, creates innovative tooling with security in depth, and serves as the technical conscience of our engineering organization. Our focus is building experiences that improve developer velocity while maintaining the highest security standards through thoughtful design and abstraction.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively identify pain points in our engineering processes and ship solutions before problems impact productivity.
- Connect deeply with engineering teams to understand their workflows, challenges, and unspoken needs.
- Design and build highly usable platform services, tools, and frameworks that make complex tasks simple, secure, and safe through thoughtful automation and abstraction.
- Drive engineering excellence by creating testing frameworks, build systems, and deployment pipelines that enhance product quality and developer velocity.
- Bridge technical solutions to business objectives, ensuring all work delivers measurable organizational impact.
- Serve as a subject matter expert across TypeScript, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Rust, and emerging AI technologies.
- Consult across teams as an expert to establish and evolve standards for best practices, system architecture, and maintainable codebases.
Required:
- At least 5+ years of proven back-end and server-side development experience.
- Deep expertise in Node.js, npm, and TypeScript.
- Willingness to learn Rust.
- Strong testing and methodical debugging skills.
- Ability to understand users’ needs beyond what they explicitly articulate.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing developer tooling and internal platforms with a focus on developing reliable backend systems.
- Experience with testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
- Skill in connecting technical solutions to meaningful business outcomes.
- Eagerness to learn continuously and improve without ego.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders and communicate complex ideas clearly.
- Strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals and system design.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field.
Preferred:
- Experience with Rust and Kotlin.
- Experience developing AI agents, prompt engineering, or other AI based automation tools.
- Background in optimizing build systems.
- Experience with containerized microservices in Kubernetes.
- Experience using event-driven systems and platforms like Kafka.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
- Create tools and systems that save engineering teams hundreds of thousands of hours of effort.
- Work with autonomy to identify problems and propose creative solutions.
- Join a team of humble, smart, continuous learners who value excellence.
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 – $240,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus are also a part of this role’s package.
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
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Employment type
Full-time
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Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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Company
BitGo
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
150.000
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