Backend Engineering (Cryptoassets)

Role Description:

• Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage’s custody platform
  
• Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking and governance
  
• Develop infrastructure that scales across all crypo-networks
  
• Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues
  
• Review code across the entire stack and engineering organization while actively participating in product development
   
• Find the right balance between progress (eg shipping quickly) and perfection (eg measuring twice)
   
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
  
• Influence architecture/product roadmap – have a seat at the table
   
• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone
  
• Help scale the team
  
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
   
• Ship code that will impact the global economy
   

Buzzwords:

• Backend Tech: Go, C, Solidity, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL
  
• Frontend Tech: JavaScript, ReactJS, Flow, D3, CSS Modules, Webpack, Jest, and Cypress
  
• Mobile Tech:  Swift, RxSwift, CocoaPods, and Secure Enclave
  
• Engineering methodologies: , cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code
   

Qualifications:

• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems
  
• You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
   
• You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
   
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech
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• You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, eg concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)
   
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious
   

Bonus Points:

• You have experience with applied cryptography
  
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug
   
• 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’ve seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton (the founder of our nation’s financial system 🙂
  

Company Benefits (Mid-Pandemic):

• 100% coverage of health, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
  
• One Medical Membership
  
• Pre-tax commuter/parking benefits
  
• 401(k) plan & FSA
  
• Flexible, guilt-free, vacation policy
  
• Monthly mental health day
  
• Home workstation budget
  
• Employee training & development
  
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company