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.
BitGo is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Custody Engineering division. This is a pivotal leadership role focused on spearheading initiatives to ensure the security, reliability, and scalability of our market-leading custody solutions, and drive innovation in our core custody platform and infrastructure. You will be responsible for guiding the Custody Engineering teams by directly managing and developing a team of Engineering Managers. Your role will involve fostering a culture of excellence, mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders within BitGo, and empowering your direct reports to build and scale high-performing, autonomous teams focused on delivering world-class custody products. While this role emphasizes leadership and strategy over daily coding, a deep technical understanding of secure systems, cryptography, and distributed ledger technologies, and the ability to guide architectural decisions, ensure technical excellence, and contribute to our overall technical strategy for custody are crucial. You will be a key partner in shaping the future of our custody offerings in a dynamic and rapidly evolving industry.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):
- Strategic Leadership & Vision for Custody: Partner closely with Product, Sales, Security Operations, Compliance, and other executive stakeholders to define and champion a compelling technical vision and roadmap for our Custody platform and initiatives. Translate this vision into actionable strategies and drive successful execution across your engineering teams.
- Team Development & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and empower a distributed organization of Engineering Managers and their teams within the Custody division, with a significant presence in India. Coach your managers to become exceptional leaders, fostering an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their careers.
- Drive Platform Excellence & Innovation in Custody: Directly oversee the Custody Engineering division's efforts to significantly enhance the security, scalability, and reliability of our custody solutions. Own the strategy and execution for building and maintaining world-class foundational tools and services that deliver a secure, scalable, and highly reliable client experience for our institutional custody clients.
- Champion an Exceptional & Secure Client Journey: Be accountable for the overall quality, security, reliability, and user experience across all our custody platforms and services. Ensure we deliver intuitive, robust, secure, and best-in-market custody products by working closely with the teams responsible for the underlying client experience infrastructure.
- Foster Our Engineering Culture: Actively cultivate and champion an engineering culture that embodies BitGo’s core values: open communication, radical collaboration, unwavering accountability, meticulous craftsmanship, and a client-first mindset, with a strong emphasis on security and trust. Promote best practices in secure software development, agile methodologies, and operational excellence within the Custody Engineering teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong, collaborative relationships across the organization, ensuring tight alignment and effective communication between Custody Engineering, Security Operations, Compliance, and other departments to deliver on shared goals.
- Talent Acquisition & Growth in India: Play a key role in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier engineering talent, including Engineering Managers, to scale the Custody Engineering teams effectively in India and other global locations.
- Outcome-Driven Execution: Establish clear objectives and key results (OKRs) for the Custody division, driving accountability and measuring success through tangible outcomes that align with BitGo’s strategic priorities for digital asset custody.
What You’ll Bring (Required Skills & Experience):
- Extensive Leadership Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 6 years in a people management role, and a minimum of 3+ years leading and coaching other Engineering Managers in a rapidly scaling environment, ideally within a fintech, cybersecurity, or institutional-grade platform context. Experience managing teams both in India and the United States is highly desirable.
- Technical Depth & Strategic Acumen (Custody Focus): Proven ability to provide technical leadership for complex, highly secure, and reliable software systems. While not a hands-on coding role, you should possess the technical credibility to guide architectural decisions, challenge assumptions, and ensure sound engineering practices, especially concerning scalable and secure custody infrastructure, cryptographic protocols, and distributed systems.
- Custody/Security Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams towards successful outcomes tied to platform security, reliability, scalability, and innovation in financial systems or digital asset custody. Deep understanding of security principles and practices in a financial technology context.
- Passion for Crypto/Fintech: A demonstrable passion for, or deep professional experience in, the cryptocurrency, blockchain, or fintech space. You understand the unique challenges and opportunities in securing digital assets for institutional clients.
- Building & Scaling Teams: A strong track record of successfully sourcing, attracting, hiring, and developing exceptional engineering talent, including managers, in a distributed and competitive environment, with a specific focus on building and scaling teams.
- Product Partnership: Demonstrated history of effective collaboration with Product Management to define, prioritize, and deliver impactful product roadmaps that balance innovation with pragmatic execution, particularly for institutional custody products.
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to build trust and influence a diverse range of stakeholders, including executive leadership, business partners, security and compliance teams, and technical teams. You can articulate complex technical concepts related to security and custody to non-technical audiences.
- Driving Engineering-Wide Initiatives: Proven success in defining, leading, and delivering complex, engineering-wide strategic initiatives that result in measurable business outcomes and improvements in engineering practices, particularly in areas like security, reliability, or platform architecture.
- Adaptability & Impact: Experience successfully onboarding into new organizations and quickly making a tangible impact, particularly within dynamic, high-growth technology companies.
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate a clear vision, inspire teams, and foster a transparent, collaborative, and inclusive environment across a globally distributed organization,
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.
Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:
- Competitive salary
- IT equipment support for work
- Meal and commute allowance
- Medical Insurance
- Attractive Well-being allowance (comprised of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
- Snacks: on-the-house in the Bangalore office
- Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed finance.
Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.
