Member of Technical Staff, Core Experience

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Anchorage Digital

United States


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


Anchorage Digital was founded in 2017 to advance institutional participation in digital assets
With an emphasis on security and usability, we provide the technology, infrastructure, and tools that make it easy for institutions across the world to participate in crypto
Our team brings together the brightest minds from security, finance, and distributed systems to build the infrastructure of a new financial system
We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn
We are a remote-first, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in San Francisco, New York City, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Porto, and Singapore
The team you’ll work with

Our core experience team develops the shared experience that all our businesses build upon to create one unified Anchorage product
The team tackles a mix of platform, infrastructure, and product challenges that impact the entire engineering organization
The impact

You will be playing a critical role by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes that will foster Anchorage’s overall success
It is a force-multiplier development role that allows an engineer to have an impact broadly across Anchorage engineering, data science and business
You’ll have the ability to distill patterns from complex software systems and refactor for reusability, simplicity and manageability

The problems you'll solve

    • Build secure, resilient, and global infrastructure from the ground up
    • Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire constellation of micro-services
    • Develop functionalities end-to-end (backend and frontend) with a world-class team of Engineers
    • 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
    • Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
       

You may be a fit for this role if

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 have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure
You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech
”You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious
Tech stack

While experience with specific languages isn’t a requirement our stack is the below
Backend Tech:

Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, C++ and GraphQL
Frontend Tech:

ReactJS, Flow, TypeScript, CSS Modules, Jest, and Cypress
Engineering Methodologies:

Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, container orchestration, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code
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