Software Engineering Intern - Custody (Winter 2027)

Job description

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

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We empower BitGo to scale securely and efficiently, enabling rapid delivery of world-class Custody solutions while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. Our engineering teams operate with clarity, autonomy, and accountability, balancing speed of delivery with trust and reliability. Our goal is to promote faster customer activation of our custody solutions with the challenge of continuing to protect our users’ digital assets while reducing friction in their day to day transactions.

About our stack:

* Frontend - React, Typescript, NextJS * Backend - Typescript, Kotlin, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB

Responsibilities:

- Design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs and customer facing UIs to empower our customer-first platform

- Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements

Requirements:

- Pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

- Experience with AI coding tools

- Fluency in at least one modern backend programming language

- Comfortable working full-stack

- Solid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code

- Product intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions

- Strong work ethic

- Interest in crypto and blockchain preferred

If you will be working from Canada: the current target rate for 2027 interns in Canada is $70 CAD per hour. If the market indicates this needs to change, we would share this with you during your interview process.

*Please note that we are required by law to pay you in the currency of the country you will be working from.*