Backend Engineer E3 - India

About this job

The Backend Engineer E3 role at BitGo in India involves designing and shipping core trading, risk, and fund-flow services while helping launch new crypto products. BitGo operates as a digital asset infrastructure company providing custody, wallets, staking, trading, and settlement services to global institutional clients and investors. On a normal day, the engineer builds scalable backend APIs for retail derivatives trading, manages fund-flow services for INR onboarding and deposits, handles risk models such as margin requirements and liquidations, and coordinates with global stakeholders across locations including the US. Team members also design microservices, run code reviews, collaborate with mobile engineering and product teams, and ensure high service performance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end fund flows for INR onboarding, deposits, withdrawals, and collateral with auditability.
• Design and build scalable backend APIs and services for retail derivatives trading and order management.
• Model and manage product risk including leverage limits, margin requirements, and liquidations.
• Integrate with exchanges and liquidity venues for reliable market connectivity.
• Partner with mobile engineers and Product teams to define APIs and ship features on a standalone mobile app.
• Provide technical leadership by setting architecture standards, running code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
• Maintain service availability, performance, and quality from design through deployment and support.
• Coordinate with global stakeholders, including participation in calls during ET hours.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional back-end and server-side development experience.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, RESTful API design, and microservices.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and financial or transactional system design.
• Knowledge of derivatives such as futures, options, perpetuals, margin, and settlement.
• Familiarity with fund flows, risk, and security considerations in trading platforms.
• Solid algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis skills.
• Experience with testing, Git/GitHub workflows, code review, and CI tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

Good to have

• Experience building futures or perpetuals products at a crypto exchange or trading platform.
• Crypto experience or strong traditional-finance derivatives experience.
• Mobile development knowledge or full-stack familiarity with React.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers as a tech lead or engineering manager.
• Experience building consumer-facing financial or crypto products and public APIs in production.

Who should apply

This role suits experienced backend developers with a strong background in server-side technologies, financial systems, and derivatives trading. Candidates should possess over six years of professional experience, proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, and familiarity with databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB. It is ideal for professionals who enjoy mentoring others, collaborating with global teams, and working on innovative digital asset infrastructure. Freshers should not apply as 6+ years of experience is required.

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