Member of Technical Staff, Banking Solutions

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 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 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:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of the team
• 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.

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.
• Use ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects.
• 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.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself 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.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering and management skills more than any specific language or framework.
• Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• 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.
• You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity.
• You are familiar with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.

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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