Member of Technical Staff, Banking Solutions (Backend Engineer)

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a member of the Banking Solutions team, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining innovative products that empower Anchorage's NeoBank functionality.

The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated, and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.

Technical Skills:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation, and maintenance of the team
• 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

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members
• Use ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects
• Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify, and recommend priorities
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself 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

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these
• Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems, network with other teams, and establish positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team
• Have real-world experience building complex distributed systems

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• 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
• You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity
• You are familiar with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech

Compensation at Anchorage Digital:

• Compensation at Anchorage Digital is market-driven and data-informed
• All full-time employees receive a market-leading salary, meaningful equity, and a generous perks and benefits package
• Compensation Range: $167,000-$230,000
• Benefits: Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees