Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Backend Engineer) - Anchorage Digital

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. With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot. 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. Technical Skills: - 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. 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. - 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. Organizational Knowledge: - 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. 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 real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. - 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. Bonus points if: - You have experience with applied cryptography. - You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun. - Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience. - Have gRPC API design and implementation experience. - Have a background in the finance industry.