Bitgo Verified

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Cybersecurity

Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems

Palo Alto, CAOnsiteFull TimeSeniorPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

ledger systems
double-entry bookkeeping
chart-of-accounts
financial statements
reconciliation
audit
backend software engineering
data-model design
system design
technical designs

Nice to have

crypto
blockchain infrastructure
on-chain balance models
custody
wallet architecture
event-driven

Role summary

BitGo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in Palo Alto, working full-time onsite. This role focuses on building and evolving the ledger systems for client balances, trading positions, and financial reporting, operating at the intersection of software engineering and accounting. The engineer will design core ledger primitives, manage financial reporting surfaces, and ensure financial correctness in new product designs. The ideal candidate has real-world accounting knowledge, 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a focus on data model design, and strong system design instincts. Experience in crypto/blockchain or event-driven architectures is a plus.

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 Palo Alto 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 $180,000 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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