Summary

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

Responsibilities:

1. Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our wallet services: hot and cold wallets, indexing, staking, and SDK services
2. Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
3. Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our external tooling
4. Improve internal workflows by adding tooling to make it easier for BitGo’s client facing teams to service customers better
5. Constantly working on security features so that the Bitcoin we have in custody is always safe
6. Collaborate closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
7. Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
8. Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking night calls to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team
9. Lead the end-to-end technical strategy and execution for BitGo’s core products, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
10. Provide architectural oversight for system design, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and align with best practices.
11. Ensure the implementation of robust coding standards, code reviews, and continuous integration practices across the team.
12. Lead initiatives to refactor existing systems for improved performance, maintainability, and scalability.

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:

1. At least 8+ years of back-end, server-side software development
2. Hands-on experience with Backend technologies - Node.js, Typescript, JavaScript.
3. Demonstrated ability to design and architect scalable, high-performance, and secure systems from the ground up.
4. Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, microservices, and RESTful API design.
5. Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts
6. Experience working in cross-functional teams, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
7. Strong experience with Node.JS, JavaScript, Java, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
8. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university

Preferred:

1. Understanding and experience working in Bitcoin or centralized financial industry
2. Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry 
3. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, TypeScript

Skills

• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• Team Collaboration
• TypeScript