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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 www.bitgo.com.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
BitGo is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Trade team and help us build resilient, robust services and are responsible for working on critical projects with limited or no supervision.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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 and product managers 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
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:
- Experience with server-side languages like Golang, TypeScript/Node.JS, Java, Python, etc.
- Experience developing or supporting financial accounting systems, such as general ledger and bookkeeping functions
- Experience with SQL databases like MySQL or Postgres
- Confident with RESTful API design
- Great with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
- Understanding of and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain
- Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Preferred:
- At least 2 years of back-end, server-side software development
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
- Familiarity with Containers and Kubernetes
- Understanding of and experience working in the financial industry
- Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, clearing and settlement, lending, trading, accounting systems, etc
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 $165,000 - $200,000 CAD base salary. Equity and an annual performance bonus are also a part of this role's package.
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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 www.bitgo.com.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
BitGo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation of trade settlement infrastructure for institutional crypto trading. You will design robust state machines and event-driven microservices that power order management and double-entry accounting.
Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Development: Design and build scalable APIs and atomic settlement workflows. Implement fund encumbrance processes, multi-currency settlement, and robust state machines across event-driven microservices.
- Financial Integrity: Prioritize correctness over speed. Ensure data quality by implementing strategic database locking, defense-in-depth invariant checking, and clear audit trails for financial reconciliation.
- Testing & Scientific Debugging: Write rigorous tests (unit, integration, load) covering edge cases, idempotency guarantees, and invariant violations. Methodically debug distributed systems issues, including race conditions, transaction isolation conflicts, and deadlocks.
- Mentorship & Code Quality: Write clean code adhering to DRY and SoC principles. Mentor peers through thorough code reviews, catching precision bugs, concurrency issues, and architectural anti-patterns.
- End-to-End Ownership: Own features from architectural design to deployment. Document system architecture, account relationships, and workflows for internal teams and third-party developers.
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 staff who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets.
Required:
- Experience: 6+ years of backend development, with 2+ years specifically in complex financial systems (trading platforms, order management, clearing/settlement, or payment processing).
- Tech Stack: Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and/or Golang.
- Database & Messaging: Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (transaction management, locking, query optimization) and event-driven architectures using Kafka.
- Distributed Systems: Strong command of microservices architecture, inter-service communication, data consistency patterns, and concurrency.
- AI Tool Fluency: Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) in daily workflows, coupled with the rigorous ability to validate AI-generated code for correctness and security in financial contexts.
- Fundamentals: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field. Exceptional algorithm design, problem-solving, and API design skills.
- Domain Passion: Strong interest in the trading industry, crypto markets, and blockchain technology.
Preferred:
- Advanced Kafka knowledge (consumer patterns, retry policies, dead letter queue/DLQ handling).
- Deep understanding of compliance controls, audit trail requirements, and two-operator approval workflows.
- Proven experience building high-scale, public-facing APIs in a production environment.
- Ability to work full-stack, with familiarity in React.
- Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products or working directly with client operations.
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 open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want to be part of the team that changes the world's financial markets.
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 finance.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 - 220,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and employee benefits are a part of this role's package.
Ready to apply?
Apply to BitGo
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 www.bitgo.com.
This role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.
Our Solutions Engineering department works closely with prospective customers and current customers providing workshops and training in BitGo's products and services and guiding them through the technical journey from the sales process to onboarding. We are seeking a proven professional based in Toronto who will nurture relationships with our clients.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical and product demos through the pre and post sales cycles, driving technical workshops, solution architecture, implementation guidance, and presentations to Executive sponsors.
- Manage continuous client relationships by understanding their business requirements, expectations, and technical support needs with understanding customer technical architecture.
- Collaborate with Executive Directors, Product Management and Engineering Teams, contributing to the development of new product features.
- Act as a client advocate, providing valuable feedback to internal teams.
- Clearly communicate client requirements to the Sales Team for their sales calls.
- Possess strong technical skills to explain APIs and create compelling technical demos.
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.
Professional Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Programming, or a related accreditation.
- 5-8+ years in a client-facing technical role (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Integration Engineer, Implementation Manager, Technical Account Manager, Customer Success Manager, or similar).
- 5+ years deep knowledge in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, financial services, banking, payments, and/or trading.
- Prior experience in both pre-sales and/or post-sales capacities.
- Proven ability to lead and manage client engagements and projects.
- Experience collaborating with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on RFIs, RFPs, and technical proposals.
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrated understanding of technical subjects and concepts including web services and applications, PaaS, SaaS, APIs, and SDKs.
- Development experience with Javascript, Typescript, Python, and other web-based technologies/stacks.
Professional Skills:
- Exceptional professionalism – highly regarded by clients and colleagues.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication and comprehension.
- Strong ability to self-manage and exercise professional judgment.
Language Skills:
- Must be proficient in English, written and spoken
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.
Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:
- Competitive salary
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
- Benefits may vary based on location
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to BitGo