Anchorage Digital · 1 day ago
Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain (Backend Engineer)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid LevelAnchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The Member of Technical Staff will research new cryptoassets, implement participatory features, and develop scalable abstractions for the platform.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware
Responsibilities
Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital’s platform
Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc
Develop abstractions that scale across all crypto-networks
Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues
Contribute with and review code across the entire stack 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
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
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
Preferred
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
You have a background in the finance industry
Company
Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions.
Founded in 2017
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (16)
2024 (7)
2023 (1)
2022 (9)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$487MKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsGICBlockchain Capital
2021-12-15Series D· $350M
2021-02-25Series C· $80M
2019-07-10Series B· $40M
Leadership Team
Nathan McCauley
Co-Founder and CEO
Diogo Mónica
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Recent News
2026-01-03
2025-12-20
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