Engineering Manager, Digital Assets Platform

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Anchorage Digital

United States


At Anchorage Digital we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto


Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions
With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service
We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn
We are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in San Francisco, New York City, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Porto, and Singapore
At Anchorage Digital, the mission of an Engineering Leader is to grow and foster excellence in our engineering organization by hiring for growth, creating an environment of high ownership, and working with leadership to continuously improve our organization
In addition, it is your mission to cultivate and contribute to Anchorage Digital's culture by coaching and mentoring our engineering team members
 As an Engineering Leader, you will also refine our roadmap, drive operational excellence, create technology strategy and use your influence to facilitate judgment and critical thinking to decision making in your organization

As an Engineering Leader, you will:

    • Lead a team of Managers and seasoned Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact and personal and professional growth
    • Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback which levels up all of those on your team
    • Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personal/professional progression of every member on your team
    • Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward
       
    • Take ownership over the  quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, processes, impact and personal and professional growth for your teams
    • Work with the Head of Engineering and other leadership team members to drive improvements and outcomes for the organization
    • Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds, but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers
    • Work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape and your plans for the growth and structure of the team

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 leadership skills more than any specific language or framework
    • Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
    • Experience in building Platforms that go both from 0 to 1 and 1 to 2
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    • Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
       
    • Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech
    • 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

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 do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation
Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information
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