Senior Software Engineer (Accounting & Ledger Systems)

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
• Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
• Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
• Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
• Flexible vacation time
• Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
• Top-end computer equipment to power your work- 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
• 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
• Strong instincts for extensible system design — schemas and APIs that can grow with new requirements instead of requiring repeated rework
• 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
• Experience with event-driven or Kafka-based service architectures
• Experience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure — on-chain balance models, custody, or wallet architecture
• Prior experience in an embedded “accounting architecture” or financial-systems design-review role at a fintech or crypto company