Bitgo Senior Software Engineer at BitGo builds and evolves ledger systems for digital asset balances, trading positions, and financial reporting. Designs double-entry ledger primitives and ensures financial correctness in new products.
Responsibilities
Design and extend our core ledger — accounts, postings, and the account-type/ledger structures that every financial product is built on.
Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface that connects engineering data to financial statements and downstream reporting.
Work across the boundary between on-chain data and off-chain books: balance verification, reconciliation, and proof-of-reserve style mechanisms.
Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to make sure new features correctly model legal entity ownership, ledger placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths — before they ship, not after.
Design data models that can absorb new financial products (margin, lending, staking, tokenized assets, and more) cleanly, without repeated painful migrations.
Qualification
RealDisrupting an industry takes visionCompetitive base salaryUp to 4% 401k company matchPaid parental leave
Required
Real, working knowledge of accounting fundamentals: double-entry bookkeeping, chart-of-accounts design, financial statements (P&L, balance sheet), and what reconciliation and audit actually require in practice.
5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a track record of owning data-model design for systems where correctness is the product, not just uptime.
Strong instincts for extensible system design — schemas and APIs that can grow with new requirements instead of requiring repeated rework.
Comfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems, not just writing your own.
Strong cross-functional communication — you'll work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designs.
Preferred
Experience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure — on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecture.
Experience with event-driven or Kafka-based service architectures.
Prior experience in an embedded "accounting architecture" or financial-systems design-review role at a fintech or crypto company.
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.
Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
