Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Backend

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Salary: CAD 180,000 - CAD 220,000
Level: Senior

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Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

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About the role

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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

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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.

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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.

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Blockchain

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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 16 open in Engineering. 13 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Blockchain (15 of 16), GitHub (11 of 16), JavaScript (8 of 16), REST (8 of 16), TypeScript (8 of 16), Git (7 of 16), PostgreSQL (7 of 16)

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