Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

Banking Solutions

Salary not provided
TypeScript
Go
Rust
Solidity
Senior level
New York
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

Open for applications

Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
TypeScript
Go
Rust
Solidity
Senior level
New York

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

  • 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

Desirable

  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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

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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