Member of Technical Staff, Transparency (Backend Engineer)

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

You will be part of a full stack engineering team charged with improving the client onboarding experience through front-end enhancements and back-end API's, capturing critical data for record keeping and auditing, and supporting transaction monitoring and screening for risk detection, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering. The team collaborates directly with compliance, customer experience, and legal teams as well as external third-party systems to support the company's regulatory commitments as the first and only federally chartered digital asset bank.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Technical Staff, Transparency role:

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrates a wide-ranging experience, uses in-depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways.
• Adept at designing and building solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes 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.
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.

Communication and Influence:

• Mentors and guides others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.
• Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains.

You may be a fit for this role, if you:

• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over the latest tech.
• You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You are able to work in a fast-paced agile software environment, and able to context switch between multiple simultaneous tasks.
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have experience implementing effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry.
• Have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, gRPC and Temporal.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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