Engineering Manager, Anchorage Digital

Trading

Salary not provided
GCP
GraphQL
Go
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

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Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
GCP
GraphQL
Go
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

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

  • You have experience in financial trading systems (i.e. front office, middle office, and/or back office roles), with domain knowledge of how these systems differ from traditional database-backed, request-response systems like standard web applications
  • You have real-world experience building, maintaining, and operating financial trading systems, with an understanding of the operational demands of a trading system that operates 24x7x365. Our crypto markets never close, and our trading systems need to support high availability and healthy operational procedures to maintain customer trust
  • 8+ years of technical experience as a full-time software engineer
  • 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager, with demonstrated success in managing, mentoring, and growing geographically distributed teams across varying time zones
  • You have experience leading distributed teams and working cross-functionally to drive results
  • You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time, with a focus on code quality and test infrastructure
  • You’ve maintained a “player-coach” skillset and feel comfortable conducting live technical programming interviews, reviewing pull requests, and helping your team grow
  • You’ve developed strong computer science fundamentals (i.e., concurrency, algorithms, and data structures), though a formal CS degree is not required
  • You genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the “why” and the “how,” not just the “what.”
  • You self-describe as creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hard-working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious

Desirable

  • You have professional experience with Go, GCP, GraphQL or gRPC

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality software at a rapid pace.
  • In this role, your focus will be on hiring top-tier engineers, mentoring team members to achieve their career goals, and driving processes that maintain and enhance team performance
  • Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team
  • Showcase your expertise and judgement in tackling complex and ambiguous challenges, delivering scalable solutions
  • Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personal/professional progression of every member on your team
  • You lead a team of Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact, and growth
  • Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback that levels up all those on your team
  • Take ownership over the personal and professional growth of a single team
  • Work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape, and your plans for the growth and structure of the team
  • Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward
  • Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers

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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