Member of Technical Staff, Domain Engineering
Anchorage Digital
IT
United States
Posted on Nov 15, 2024
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 only 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. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
As a Member of Technical Staff on the Domain Engineering team, you are responsible for ensuring a robust technology stack, enabling our company to build scalable, efficient, and maintainable products. Allowing our product teams to focus on developing customer focused features. You are a strong individual contributor and you have the ability to significantly contribute to and execute complex Engineering projects, enabled with appropriate coding and testing. You can understand the “why” in order to connect dependencies to the “bigger picture” and Anchorage mission and product roadmap.
Technical Skills:
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify areas for improvements across our engineering stack.
- Previous experience in establishing shared libraries across teams, with a focus on standardization, code quality, and reduced duplication.
- Proven experience with application observability projects that involved setting up performance metrics, log aggregation, tracing, and alerting systems.
Complexity and Impact of Work
- 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.
- Ship code that will impact the whole organization.
Organizational Knowledge
- Collaborate across multiple teams, especially on integration, standardization, and shared resources.
- Influence others by engaging in in-depth technical design discussions and demonstrating best practices through technical leadership by example.
- Make a meaningful impact across the entire engineering organization, extending influence beyond the immediate team.
Communication and Influence
- Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues to drive collaboration and innovation.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
- You are passionate about constantly seeking opportunities to refine and enhance existing systems and processes.
- Driven by a passion for being a force multiplier and influential technical leader in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
- Have expert coding skills in Golang.
- Experienced in cross-functional projects, collaborating effectively with your team and adjacent teams to tackle complex challenges.
- Have excellent soft skills, including, the ability to adapt communication for both internal and external stakeholders in an effective manner, bridging gaps with empathy and proactive communication.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- Infrastructure-as-code; Terraform, Gitops, Helm
- Google Cloud Platform & Security
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
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. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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