Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems

New York · Palo Alto · 5+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

BitGo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the ledger systems behind client balances, trading positions, and financial reporting.
This role involves working at the intersection of software engineering and accounting by designing double-entry ledger primitives for other engineering teams to build upon.

Design and extend the core ledger, including accounts, postings, and account-type/ledger structures.
Own the chart-of-accounts and reporting surface connecting engineering data to financial statements and downstream reporting.
Work across the boundary between on-chain data and off-chain books, covering 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.
Design data models that can absorb new financial products cleanly without repeated painful migrations.

Real, working knowledge of accounting fundamentals, including double-entry bookkeeping, chart-of-accounts design, and financial statements.
5+ years of backend software engineering experience with a track record of owning data-model design for systems where correctness is the product.
Strong instincts for extensible system design, schemas, and APIs.
Comfort reading and critiquing technical designs across multiple systems.
Strong cross-functional communication skills to work directly with Finance, Data Engineering, and Product on shared designs.

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.