Member of Technical Staff, Banking Solutions (Fullstack Engineer)

Anchorage Digital•New York, NY

About The Position

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 first 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 the Banking Solutions team, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining innovative products, in a highly collaborative team, that empowers Anchorage’s NeoBank functionality. The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently . We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Fullstack oftware Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas: Technical Skills: Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance across the full stack. Build backend services and APIs that power Banking Solutions features. Create intuitive user experiences that simplify complex financial data into digestible, actionable insights. Build data visualizations from the ground up (charts, transaction flows, balance reports). Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage's engineering and team standards. Review code across frontend and backend, ensuring consistency, reducing errors, and sharing context across the engineering team. Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions. Complexity and Impact of Work: 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. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities. Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt. Organizational Knowledge: 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. Communication and Influence 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.

Requirements

Have real world experience building complex distributed systems and web applications from scratch.
Experience with backend languages (we mostly use Go, but languages can be learned).
Proficiency with React.JS or similar JavaScript frameworks (Next.JS, Angular.JS, Vue.JS ).
Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
Genuinely care about code quality, test infrastructure, and end-user experience.
Prioritize business value and user experience over "cool tech".
Have developed "computer science fundamentals" (concurrency, algorithms, data structures - formal CS degree NOT required).
Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating, learning from and mentoring others.

Nice To Haves

GraphQL and/or gRPC API design and implementation experience (both consuming and building).
Production experience with web security.
A background in the finance industry or fintech.
Experience working across the full stack on customer-facing financial applications.

Responsibilities

Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance across the full stack.
Build backend services and APIs that power Banking Solutions features.
Create intuitive user experiences that simplify complex financial data into digestible, actionable insights.
Build data visualizations from the ground up (charts, transaction flows, balance reports).
Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage's engineering and team standards.
Review code across frontend and backend, ensuring consistency, reducing errors, and sharing context across the engineering team.
Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.
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.
Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends 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.

Benefits

Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees.
We are only 1% of companies who offer 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
This means no monthly out-of-pocket premiums for you or your family.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees globally.
You can learn more about our culture and perks and benefits here.

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