Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Integrations (Backend Engineer)

Location

Remote

Type

Full-time

Area

Engineering & Data

Level

Mid-Senior

Job Description

Posted on:

October 16, 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 member of the Protocols team you will be at the forefront of new cryptoasset support. At Anchorage Digital we want to support all the assets, that means there will always be a need to learn new blockchains, technologies and innovations, and integrate them into Anchorage Digital's ecosystem. With all the existing and upcoming business lines, developing a scalable, reproducible and reliable layer that such business lines can use when interacting with the different blockchains is critical. We are never "done", we can always do better! All we have achieved so far and what we aim to achieve in the future is only possible because we work as a team. By joining Anchorage Digital not only will you be a part of a top notch team, we also expect you to help the team grow as a whole. From your technical expertise and architecting skills to mentoring, we work as a team end to end.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Technical Staff role:

Technical Skills:

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.

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.

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

Ship code that will impact the global economy.

Organizational Knowledge:

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

Help scale the team.

Communication and Influence:

Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.

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. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework.

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.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

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.