Member of Technical Staff, Custody; Backend Engineer

Job Summary

As a member of the Custody organization you are responsible for providing an industry leading secure custodial and technology service to enable intuitive experiences moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets, smart contracts, or traditional banking rails. Our teams are responsible for the entire custody experience, including the management and transferring of cash, coins and NFTs, staking assets, interacting with onchain smart contracts, fiat transfers, and institutional platform solutions.

All new hires must complete an in-person onboarding process – no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup.

• 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, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.
• Be capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. And 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.

• 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, 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.

• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework.
• 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 (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

• 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.
• Have Graph
  
  QL API design and implementation experience.
• Have gRPC API design and implementation experience.
• Have a background in the finance industry.

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.