Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems

As a Senior Software Engineer at BitGo, you'll build and evolve the ledger systems behind our clients' balances, trading positions, and financial reporting. You work at the intersection of software engineering and accounting, designing the double-entry ledger primitives that other engineering teams build on, and ensuring new products are designed with financial correctness from day one rather than retrofitted after launch. This role is 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 the core ledger, including 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 ensure new features correctly model legal entity ownership, ledger placement, pricing, and reconciliation paths before they ship
• Design data models that can absorb new financial products (margin, lending, staking, tokenized assets, and more) cleanly, without repeated painful migrations

What you bring

• 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, with 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 skills; you'll work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designs

Nice to have

• Experience in crypto or blockchain infrastructure, such as 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

What we offer

• Base salary of $200,000 to $220,000 USD, plus equity and an annual performance bonus
• 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
• Up to 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave and paid vacation
• Free commuter/parking pass
• Free custom lunches and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Full-time onsite position at our Toronto office

About BitGo

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Founded in 2013, BitGo serves thousands of institutions and millions of retail investors worldwide, handling a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions as the largest independent digital asset custodian and staking provider in the world.