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Anchorage Digital · 5 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Direct Custody (Backend Engineer)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a Member of Technical Staff in Direct Custody, you will be responsible for creating secure custodial and technology services that enhance user experiences with blockchain assets.

BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Understand the principles of various blockchain and how to abstract them into features for our customers

Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc

Develop abstractions for features that scale and apply across all crypto-networks

Contribute with and review code across the code base and engineering organization

Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)

Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy

Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation

Ship code that will impact the global economy

Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table

Help scale the team

Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone

Qualification

Blockchain principlesDistributed systemsGo programmingCode qualityTest infrastructureApplied cryptographyFinance industry backgroundComputer science fundamentalsSoft skills

Required

Have real world experience building complex distributed systems

Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention

Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure

You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug

Prioritize end-user experience and business value over 'cool tech.'

Have developed 'computer science fundamentals', i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)

Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious