FRONT END DEVELOPER
Company and Product:
At BitGo, our mission is to secure the world’s bitcoin. Our platform is used by some of the largest institutions and enterprises in the bitcoin space today, and our brand is known as the gold standard for security. We have raised $14 million in venture capital financing from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, New York, who have backed successful companies like PayPal, Netscape, Red Hat, Proofpoint, Verisign, Juniper Networks, Yammer and Tesla.
Our Founders:
Mike Belshe is a veteran technologist who invented the multi-signature protocols used at Bitgo. Prior, Mike worked at Google on the founding of Google Chrome, was the co-inventor and driving force behind SPDY (which has now become HTTP/2.0 and co-founded Lookout Software acquired by Microsoft.
Ben Davenport is a technology entrepreneur and investor who had been deeply involved in Bitcoin since 2011. He co-founded Beluga which was sold to Facebook. Prior, Ben worked at Google and Microsoft.
Why Join Bitgo?
Building disruptive products takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration and execution. In a nutshell great people, who strive for excellence in all their endeavors who have a track of success! We are looking for candidates who “think out of the box”, are not risk adverse and want to build products that change the world. We aspire to provide a working environment, culture and leadership team that inspires greatness on a daily basis offering transparency, ownership and integrity.
Join a team and learn about state-of-the-art front end security, operational security, backend security for RESTful APIs, and more. We build layers of security protection with isolated privileges combined with state-of-the-art monitoring and intrusion detection.
Bitcoin will change the financial industry!
What you’ll need to be successful:
- 2-8 years professional experience as a front end software engineer using Javascript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS
- Detail-oriented with special attention to designCollaborate with the design team to implement clean, elegant user experiences.
- Experience with algorithms preferred.
- Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, source control, design patterns, etc.
- Team player (startup experience highly desired)
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science
- A keen interest in start-ups.
- A passion for Bitcoin
What you’ll own and deliver in this role:
- Design and implement new user-facing features in Bitgo’s products.
- Build the libraries and frameworks that support large, complex web applications.
- Specialize in building responsive and elegant web applications that are scalable.
- Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale.
- Write client-side code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to-use, high volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:
- 2-8 years professional experience as a front end software engineer
- Javascript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS
- Detail-oriented with special attention to design
- Collaborate with the design team to implement clean, elegant user experiences.
- Experience with algorithms preferred.
- Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, source control, design patterns, etc.
- Team player (startup experience highly desired)
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science
- A passion for bitcoin
Benefits:
