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title: 'Backend Engineer E2 - Ecosystem at BitGo'
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# Backend Engineer E2 - Ecosystem at BitGo

- **Company:** BitGo
- **Location:** India
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo/jobs/8644530002

## Job description

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](http://www.bitgo.com/).

BitGo is looking for a Backend Engineer - E2 to join our Ecosystem Vertical and help us build an API-first platform for businesses and developers to launch crypto products.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our API-first platform
- 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 with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements
- 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

- At least 3+ years of proven experience of back-end and server-side development
- Great at algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Strong experience with of TypeScript, Node.js and Express
- Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, etc.
- Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment
- 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

## Preferred

- Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products
- Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
- Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React
- Experience working with clients and/or business partners
- 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 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.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

- Competitive salary
- IT equipment support for work
- Meal & Commute allowance
- Medical Insurance
- Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
- Snacks : on-the-house in the Bangalore office
- Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with

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.

Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.

## About BitGo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BitGo is a digital asset infrastructure and financial services company providing secure custody, staking, trading, and stablecoin solutions for institutional investors and builders.
- **Entity Type**: Private – raised $384.3M in total funding (last venture round in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport, Will O'Brien, Bill Lee

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Digital asset custody, blockchain infrastructure, financial services (cryptocurrency)
- Target customers: Institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, and asset managers (B2B)
- Mission: "Accelerating the transition of the financial system to the digital asset economy" [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)

## Products & Services
- **BitGo Custody**: Multi-signature hot and cold wallet custody services, with non-custodial and custodial configurations – secures over $100B in digital assets.
- **BitGo Prime**: Prime brokerage services for institutional trading, including OTC and electronic trading.
- **BitGo Staking**: Staking infrastructure for proof-of-stake assets.
- **Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)**: BitGo serves as the sole custodian for bitcoin backing the WBTC token, enabling Bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum.
- **Stablecoin Issuance**: Issuer of SoFiUSD (for SoFi Bank) and custodian for USD1 (World Liberty Financial) and frxUSD (fractional reserve stablecoin).
- **Blockchain Security APIs**: APIs for transaction building, signing, and settlement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $384.3M; assets under custody – over $100B in digital assets; secures ~20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint Ventures (led Series A), Galaxy Digital and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (led Series B), Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, and other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Brassica (2024), Harbor (2020), Hedge (2019), HeightZero (2023), and Lumina (2020). However, headcount declined ~75% YoY to 65 employees as of early 2026, though the company has 51 active job postings across engineering, sales, compliance, and trust administration [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo) [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest independent digital asset custodian** – trusted by institutions and issuers of major tokens (WBTC, stablecoins).
- **Multisignature security model** – keys split between custodian and wallet owner, with both hot and cold storage options.
- **Regulatory trust infrastructure** – operates as a qualified custodian and trust company in multiple jurisdictions.
- **10+ years of operational history** in the volatile crypto market, surviving multiple cycles.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening institutional-grade prime services (trading, lending, settlement).
- Expanding stablecoin issuance and custody partnerships (SoFi, World Liberty Financial).
- Growing international presence with offices in 9 countries (US, Canada, UK, Singapore, India, UAE, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan).
- Leveraging acquisitions (Brassica, Harbor) to offer tokenization and transfer agent services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Open communication, craftsmanship, accountability, collaboration, client-first [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance; competitive compensation with stock options; 401k plan; top-end computer equipment [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Global, distributed team; hybrid/remote flexibility (multiple remote roles listed); offices in Palo Alto, New York, Toronto, London, Singapore, Dubai, and others.
- **Engineering culture**: Polyglot stack, focus on security and blockchain protocols; strong hiring from Google, Amazon, Coinbase, and Waterloo.
- **Notable**: Despite recent headcount reduction, the company is actively hiring for engineering, sales, compliance, and trust roles – a sign of strategic refocusing.

## Sources
1. [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)
2. [bitgo.com/careers](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
3. [bitgo.com/about](https://www.bitgo.com/company/about-us/)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)

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