Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

• 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

• 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