Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Backend
- Salary
- CAD 180,000 - CAD 220,000
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 9 October 2026.
About the role
BitGo's standard text
BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company.
Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. 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 looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Mobile team and help us build the first-time user experience for our retail users.
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
- 6+ 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
BitGo's standard text
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 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.
Benefits may vary based on location.
Pay Transparency Notice:
Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 and $220,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.
BitGo's standard text
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 investing.
What this role asks for
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Blockchain
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 16 open in Engineering. 14 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Blockchain (15 of 16), GitHub (12 of 16), JavaScript (9 of 16), REST (9 of 16), TypeScript (9 of 16), Git (8 of 16), PostgreSQL (8 of 16)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer - Mobile (React Native/iOS/Android) posted Oct 9
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 9
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 9
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 9
- Technical Lead - Infrastructure posted Oct 9
- Technical Lead - Infrastructure posted Oct 9
- Engineering Manager - Infrastructure posted Oct 9
- Engineering Manager - Infrastructure posted Oct 9
- Backend Engineer E3 - India posted Oct 9
- Mobile Engineer E2 - (React Native) posted Oct 9
- Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems posted Oct 8
- Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems posted Oct 8
- Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems posted Sep 30
- Data Engineering Manager - M3 posted Dec 16
- Backend Engineer E3 - Ecosystem posted Apr 22
From the team and dates on BitGo's own job board.
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