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Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems

Palo Alto, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$200,000–$220,000 /yrPosted 1 day agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

BitGo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Accounting & Ledger Systems team in Toronto. This full-time, onsite role focuses on building and evolving the core ledger systems that underpin client balances, trading positions, and financial reporting. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of accounting fundamentals, including double-entry bookkeeping and financial statements, combined with expertise in backend software engineering and distributed systems design. You will be responsible for designing and extending the ledger primitives, owning the chart-of-accounts, and ensuring financial correctness in new product designs. Experience with financial systems design, data modeling, and APIs is crucial. Preferred qualifications include experience in crypto/blockchain infrastructure and event-driven architectures.

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 Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the ledger systems behind our clients' balances, trading positions, and financial reporting. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and accounting — designing the double-entry ledger primitives that other engineering teams build on, and making sure new products are designed with financial correctness in mind from day one rather than retrofitted after launch.

This is a rare role for someone who genuinely understands accounting fundamentals and wants to apply that knowledge to hard distributed-systems problems in a live financial platform.

What You'll Do

  • Design and extend our core ledger — accounts, postings, and the account-type/ledger structures that every financial product is built on.
  • Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface that connects engineering data to financial statements and downstream reporting.
  • Work across the boundary between on-chain data and off-chain books: balance verification, reconciliation, and proof-of-reserve style mechanisms.
  • Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to make sure new features correctly model legal entity ownership, ledger placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths — before they ship, not after.
  • Design data models that can absorb new financial products (margin, lending, staking, tokenized assets, and more) cleanly, without repeated painful migrations.

    • What We're Looking For

  • Real, working knowledge of accounting fundamentals: double-entry bookkeeping, chart-of-accounts design, financial statements (P&L, balance sheet), and what reconciliation and audit actually require in practice.
  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a track record of owning data-model design for systems where correctness is the product, not just uptime.
  • Strong instincts for extensible system design — schemas and APIs that can grow with new requirements instead of requiring repeated rework.
  • Comfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems, not just writing your own.
  • Strong cross-functional communication — you'll work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designs.

    • Nice to Have

  • Experience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure — on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecture.
  • Experience with event-driven or Kafka-based service architectures.
  • Prior experience in an embedded "accounting architecture" or financial-systems design-review role at a fintech or crypto company.

    • 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.

  • Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
  • 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
  • Up to 4% 401k company match
  • Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
  • Free commuter/parking pass
  • Free custom lunches and snacks
  • Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
  • Great colleagues and an inspiring environment

    • Benefits may vary based on location.

    Pay Transparency Notice:

    Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $200,000 and $220,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.

    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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