Anchorage18mo ago

Member of Technical Staff, Banking Solutions (Backend Engineer)

United StatesFull-Time - Hybridlead

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At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

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OtherBackend EngineeringMember Of Technical Banking Solutions

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 first 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.

As a member of the Banking Solutions team, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining innovative products, in a highly collaborative team, that empowers Anchorage’s NeoBank functionality. The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry

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:

Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of the team

Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage’s engineering and team standards, and practices.

Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.

Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.

Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.

Use ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects.

Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities.

Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.

Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure.

Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.

Monitor the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.

Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.

Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems, network with other teams, and establish positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains.

Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.

Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering and management skills more than any specific language or framework.

Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.

Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.

Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”

Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).

Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

You have experience with applied cryptography.

In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.

You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.

You have a background in the finance industry.

You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity.

You are familiar with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.

Compensation at Anchorage Digital is market-driven and data-informed. All full-time employees receive a market-leading salary, meaningful equity, and a generous perks and benefits package.

Compensation Range: $167,000-$230,000 - this salary range may be inclusive of multiple regional locations and job grades. This compensation range will be narrowed during the interview process based on skills, abilities, and experience required. ****We partner with third party firms annually to verify equity, cash, benefits, and perks benchmarks.

Benefits: Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees. We are only 1% of companies who offer 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. This means no monthly out-of-pocket premiums for you or your family. We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees globally.