Senior Software Engineer Post Trade

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 industrys 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.

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 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: Bachelors 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 ownership craftsmanship and open communication. 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 worlds financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:*

• Competitive base salary bonus and stock options
• 100% company-paid health insurance for employee partner and dependents
• Up to 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave Paid vacation
• Free commuter/parking pass
• Free custom lunches dinners and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• 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 youll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.