Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

• You have 8+ years of professional experience building API first backend services (e.g. REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
• You have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services
• You are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features
• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems
• You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
• You have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required)
• You 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 will work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and the rest of the engineering team to plan, build, release and maintain high quality software for the Settlement Network business. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture, technical direction and each team member’s technical skill development
• Build secure, resilient infrastructure from the ground up!
• Review code across the entire stack and engineering organization while actively participating in product development
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt
• Solve complicated software design problems
• Efficiently implement high quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise and well tested)
• Break down large projects into smaller tasks, an accurately estimate the size of multi-person projects
• Ship code that will impact the global economy
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
• Work across multiple product lines such as Anchorage Digital Trading, Custody and our suite of API integrations
• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone
• Help scale the team
• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table
• Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage Digital and how their work relates to these