Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

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Salary not provided
Kubernetes
GraphQL
Go
C++
REST API
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

Open for applications

Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Kubernetes
GraphQL
Go
C++
REST API
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 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

  • Professional experience with C++ or Go
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes
  • You have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys)
  • You have a background in the finance industry

What the job involves

  • 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

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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