About the role
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.