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Anchorage Digital · 1 week ago

Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Lead Backend Engineer)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a member of the Custody organization, you will provide secure custodial and technology services enabling intuitive experiences with digital assets, while also leading and contributing to complex projects within the team.

BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

GoDistributed systemsCode qualityGraphQLGRPCApplied cryptographyMentoringCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Have real world experience building complex distributed systems

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