Backend Engineer, Anchorage Digital
Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Integrations
$144.7-286k
+Equity
Regulated crypto platform
Open for applications
Regulated crypto platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$144.7-286k
+Equity
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 complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework
- Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention
- Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
- You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug
- 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
What the job involves
- As member of the Protocols team you will be at the forefront of new cryptoasset support. At Anchorage Digital we want to support all the assets, that means there will always be a need to learn new blockchains, technologies and innovations, and integrate them into Anchorage Digital's ecosystem
- With all the existing and upcoming business lines, developing a scalable, reproducible and reliable layer that such business lines can use when interacting with the different blockchains is critical. We are never "done", we can always do better!
- Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital’s platform
- Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc
- Develop abstractions that scale across all crypto-networks
- Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues
- Contribute with and review code across the entire stack and engineering organization
- Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
- Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
- Ship code that will impact the global economy
- Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table
- Help scale the team
- Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone
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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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.
Nathan McCauley
(CEO)Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.
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