Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Backend Engineer)

Responsibilities

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Custody systems.
• Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage's engineering and team standards, and practices.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.
• Review other developer's code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.
• Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes.
• Be capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.
• Monitor the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.
• Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain.

Requirements

• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech".
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Have developed "computer science fundamentals", i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Bonus Points

• Experience with applied cryptography.
• Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.
• Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Experience with gRPC API design and implementation.
• Background in the finance industry.

Conditions

• Competitive salary ranging from $135K to $225K.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Opportunity to work with a diverse team of over 600 members.
• Commitment to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace.