Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital
Trading
Regulated crypto platform
Job no longer available
Regulated crypto platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.
Role
Who you are
- Have 3+ years of professional experience with Go
- Have experience with modern software development practices, including automated unit, integration and end to end testing, cloud development, database design and interaction using MySQL or PostgreSQL and experience using Git
- Have knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of several (not all) of the following topics: Order Execution Management Systems (OEMS), FIX protocol, market data, low latency application architectures and messaging, matching engines, FX trading, cryptocurrency trading, trading back office systems
- Have real world experience building financial trading systems
- Are passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, SOLID, refactoring, etc)
- Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
- Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)
- Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others
Desirable
- Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience
- Have gRPC API design and implementation experience
- Have a background in the finance industry
- Have experience working with digital asset (i.e. cryptocurrency) trading
What the job involves
- As a Senior Trading Engineer, you will be implementing front office and back office trading systems that are used by institutional investors around the world on a daily basis to trade, invest and exchange cryptocurrency assets
- We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact 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
- You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
- Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems
- Use your knowledge of the trading system domain to influence the technical direction of the Brokerage team. Advocate for improved processes or technology when appropriate
- 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 Brokerage engineering team
- Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features
- Capable of breaking 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
- Ensure that knowledge is shared across the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the Brokerage team and other teams at Anchorage Digital
- Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within your area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of the Brokerage team and how your work relates to these
- Understands others' context or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and adjusts communication to ensure maximum impact and effectiveness
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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
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.
Nathan McCauley
(CEO)Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.
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