Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

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GraphQL
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

Open for applications

Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
GraphQL
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Company mission

To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.

Role

Who you are

  • You have real world experience building complex distributed systems
  • You have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture
  • You prioritize end-user experience and business value over the latest tech
  • You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)
  • You are able to work in a fast-paced agile software environment, and able to context switch between multiple simultaneous tasks
  • Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others

Desirable

  • You have experience implementing effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry
  • Have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, gRPC and Temporal
  • You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug
  • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

What the job involves

  • You will be part of a full stack engineering team charged with improving the client onboarding experience through front-end enhancements and back-end API's, capturing critical data for record keeping and auditing, and supporting transaction monitoring and screening for risk detection, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering
  • The team collaborates directly with compliance, customer experience, and legal teams as well as external third-party systems to support the company's regulatory commitments as the first and only federally chartered digital asset bank
  • Demonstrates a wide-ranging experience, uses in-depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways
  • Adept at designing and building solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality
  • Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes 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
  • Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities
  • Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
  • Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed
  • Mentors and guides others 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 these
  • Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains

Our take

Anchorage is a crypto-native digital asset platform offering a raft of solutions that help companies leverage blockchain technologies. Their advanced security architecture facilitates streamlined access to the complex and fragmented digital asset space.

Financial backing for Anchorage has come from prestigious investors Visa and Andreessen Horowitz. Anchorage's broad offerings are set to be matched by plans to partner across a wide spread of neobanks, challenger & incumbent banks, and corporate treasurers. This would mean an impressive expansion of their already substantial domain of influence in a rapidly developing sector.

In early 2021, Anchorage secured a national trust charter from the OCC, making it the first-ever federally chartered digital asset bank. This is significant, as it provides a good barrier to entry for other companies looking to compete in this space, and gives legacy institutions the ability to offer digital asset access to their clients. Though it has raised considerable funding in the past, crypto instability and wider macroeconomic challenges forced Anchorage to cut 20% of its staff in March 2023. 2022 clampdowns on customer due dilligence internal controllers added to the pressure on Anchorage to streamline and refocus its efforts.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Dec 2021

$350m

SERIES D

Feb 2021

$80m

SERIES C

Total funding: $487m

Company benefits

  • 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
  • Family comes first: we offer parental and child bonding leave to all new parents
  • Meaningful equity - Every team member is a part owner in the company and community that we’re all building together
  • We allow employees to work anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal, and have physical workspaces in New York, San Francisco, South Dakota, and Portugal
  • Flexible time-off plan - Take time off, guilt-free, so you can recharge when you need to
  • 401(k) plan & FSA account

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

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Leadership

Diogo Mónica

(Executive Chairman)

Former advisor and board member at Jscrambler and advisor at StackRox with Phd in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Tecnico.

Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.

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