Software Engineer - Stablecoins

BitGo•New York, NY

3h•$160,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

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 New York City office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving. About the Stablecoins Team: The Stablecoins team at BitGo builds and operates the infrastructure powering our Stablecoin-as-a-Service (SCaaS) platform. We enable program partners like fintechs and financial institutions to launch compliant, fiat-backed stablecoins under BitGo's regulatory framework. The team owns the full stack: from smart contract deployment and on-chain operations (minting, burning, cross-chain bridging) to backend services for order management, policy enforcement, and partner integrations. You'll work on systems that handle real-world value at scale across Ethereum, L2 networks, and additional chains. Why this team: Work with real money at scale with actual USD flowing through your code Own the full stack from Solidity contracts to Kafka pipelines Build systems that partners depend on — your work directly impacts client success Join a small, high-visibility team at the early stages of a growing product line Operate within BitGo's regulated infrastructure, including trust charters and institutional-grade custody You'll tackle challenges like scaling infrastructure to support billions in TVL.

Requirements

At least 3+ years of back-end, server-side software development
Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js
Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Strong experience with RESTful API design
Great at algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline

Nice To Haves

Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
Familiarity with stablecoin mechanics, token standards (ERC-20), and on-chain mint/burn operations
Experience with smart contract development or integration (Solidity, Hardhat)
Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka)
Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker

Responsibilities

Build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to power our ScaaS offering
Work on smart contract infrastructure for stablecoin minting, burning, and on-chain operations across multiple blockchain networks
Build and maintain backend services that integrate with on-chain stablecoin contracts and support our Stablecoin-as-a-Service (SCaaS) program partners
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 external tooling
Improve internal workflows by adding tooling to make it easier for BitGo's client facing teams to service customers better
Collaborate closely with all engineering teams to ensure consistency in understanding of technical requirements and overall work quality
Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
Coordinate with globally distributed teammates