Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital
Transparency Front-End Engineer
2-3 days a week in office
Regulated crypto platform
Open for applications
Regulated crypto platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
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 real world experience building web applications/UI from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
- Havemastered at least one JavaScript framework (ex. Next.JS, React.JS, Angular.JS, Vue.JS, Ember, etc.)
- 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, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious
Desirable
- You have production experience with web security
- You’ve built a Chrome extension
- 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 were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
What the job involves
- The frontend team is responsible for four key areas of Anchorage’s product surface- the KYC onboarding application, the Anchorage.com marketing site, the internal web dashboard, and the external facing client dashboard. We work to add new functionality to, support existing functionality for, and optimize each of these codebases
- We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently
- 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 Front End Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
- Create an intuitive user experience that simplifies complex data into digestible, actionable insights
- Contribute to high fidelity data visualizations from the ground up, including: maps, charts, graphs, videos, and biometrics
- Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
- Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
- Ship code that will impact the global economy
- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the whole engineering team
- Participate in development cycle planning, and help the team achieve their strategic goals
- Help scale the team
- Contribute actively to team activities as a team player
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
-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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