Senior Software Engineer (Accounting & Ledger Systems)
Posted
- 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