At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
Core Experience builds foundations that other teams can use, but we also use those foundations ourselves by having a vertical integration into the system. Being part of our team means you can improve any part of our system, and you have impact across every team.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Technical Staff role:
\n Technical Skills:Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire constellation of micro-services.Improve our code base by refactoring bottlenecks, reducing feedback loops and simplifying APIs.Develop user friendly APIs.Review other developer's code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate flexible and pragmatic solutions. Complexity and Impact of Work:Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features.Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and help the team navigate the ambiguity of the space. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities. Organizational Knowledge: Ensures that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital. Communication and Influence:Able to mentor engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to theseAble to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise. You may be a fit for this role, if you: You have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure.You prioritize end-user experience and business over the latest techYou have developed "computer science fundamentals", i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others. Although not a requirement, bonus points if:Have GraphQL API design and implementation experienceHave gRPC API design and implementation experienceYou feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.In your mind the word "crypto" stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
\nAbout Anchorage Digital: Who we are The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. "Anchorage Digital" refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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