# Member of Technical Staff, Atlas **Company**: Anchorage Digital **Location**: United States **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Finance **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110660778 **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/anchorage/dbe7b6dc-e638-4689-8fdd-f586af1896b3?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_97f07896-d03 ## Description At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a Member of Technical Staff, 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 Atlas business. The team's mission is to empower institutions to settle digital assets safely and at scale, improving digital asset liquidity while reducing their counterparty risk. This is a nascent business line at Anchorage Digital with huge potential. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture, technical direction, and each team member's technical skill development. 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 Atlas business. As a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem. We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies,and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. You will be coached, mentored, and guided to grow your capabilities in four major areas: - Technical skills - Complexity and impact of work - Organizational knowledge - Communication and influence **Technical Skills:** - 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. - Find simple solutions to complex software design problems - Efficiently implement high-quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise, and well-tested) - Production support. Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot, mitigate, and learn from production incidents to reduce their incidence. - Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it. **Complexity and Impact of Work:** - 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). **Organizational Knowledge:** - 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. **Communication and Influence:** - 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. **You may be a fit for this role if you have:** - You have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services - You have designed, delivered, and maintained customer-facing APIs - You have experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-native microservices - You are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features - 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 have experience performing on-call support for production systems - 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). **Although not a requirement, bonus points if:** - Professional experience with C++ or Go. - Professional experience with Kubernetes - Professional experience with front-end development, especially Typescript/React. - You have experience with system security (e.g., authentication, authorization, identity, API keys) - You have a background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries. ## Skills ### Required - backend services - customer-facing APIs - cloud-native microservices - automated tests - code quality and infrastructure - on-call support - end-user experience - business value - computer science fundamentals ### Nice to have - C++ - Go - Kubernetes - front-end development - Typescript/React - system security - finance - cryptocurrency --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/anchorage/dbe7b6dc-e638-4689-8fdd-f586af1896b3?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)