Member of Technical Staff, Wealth (Technical Lead)

Anchorage Digital

About The Position

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the worldâs 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 Wealth & Assets Management team, you will work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and the rest of the engineering team to plan, build, release and maintain high quality software. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture and technical direction of the team. You will develop APIs and automation for client services across critical business areas supporting financial advisors and their clients, custody of assets, and trading systems. Your work will directly to influence custody, protocols, core infrastructure, and transparency systems that power Anchorage's institutional digital asset custody platform. 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 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 Tech Lead role: Technical Skills: Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Wealth systems. Writes, reviews, tests, and documents code according to Anchorageâs engineering and team standards, and practices. Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions. Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it. Review other developerâs code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Wealth engineering team. Complexity and Impact of Work: Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces. Help define the technical strategy of the team. 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. 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 with the Wealth team and other teams at Anchorage Digital. Communication and Influence: Mentor and guide team members within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these. Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise. Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.

Requirements

Have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services.
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
Have led large scale, complicated projects on an architectural level.
Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
Prioritize end-user experience and business value over âcool techâ.
Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
Have developed âcomputer science fundamentalsâ, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Nice To Haves

Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience.
Have gRPC API design and implementation experience.
Have a background in the finance industry, specifically the Wealth industry.

Responsibilities

Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Wealth systems.
Writes, reviews, tests, and documents code according to Anchorageâs engineering and team standards, and practices.
Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.
Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.
Review other developerâs code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Wealth engineering team.
Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces.
Help define the technical strategy of the team.
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.
Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
Collaborate cross-functionally with the Wealth team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.
Mentor and guide team members within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these.
Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.
Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.