Engineering Manager, Custody

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market-leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

BitGo is looking for an Engineering Manager who will lead our Compliance division. Managing this team requires close alignment with counterparts in the US. Hands-on coding might be required in order to get a good knowledge of both BitGo and blockchain components. In the long run, the ideal candidate is expected to be closely involved technically in the work of the team.

BitGo is looking for an Engineering Manager who will join our team in Bangalore, India. 

Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for growing BitGo’s business, by building the best system for Institutions
• Collaborate with Product, Trust, Compliance, and other key stakeholders to set the product and technical vision to successfully execute against the same.
• Provide regular coaching to your team and the broader engineering department
• Take direct responsibility for quality and delivery of the team’s work
• Manage end-to-end availability and performance of critical services
• Encourage best practices in engineering design and usability, leading by example
• Facilitate thorough documentation and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with management and product teams to plan, estimate, and prioritize roadmap objectives
• Work closely with company leadership to identify upcoming opportunities and risks
• Actively foster an engineering-wide culture that embodies our values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client-first approach.
• Coordinate with stakeholders in the US and other global locations. This potentially involves taking calls in the PST/ EST timezone to keep in sync with your geographically distributed team.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, 2+ years in a managerial role.
• Experience in crypto, professional or personal, or an interest in the same.
• Experience successfully onboarding onto a new organization as a manager.
• Track record of sourcing and hiring top engineering talent, including managerial talent.
• Proven success leading engineering-wide initiatives.
• Demonstrated history of collaborating with products to come up with a product roadmap.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly working with business stakeholders.
• Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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 and commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprised 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.