8+ years of professional experience building backend services.
Proven experience designing and maintaining customer-facing APIs.
Skilled in cloud-native microservices development and deployment.
Passionate about automated testing alongside feature development.
Demonstrated ability to build services from scratch and maintain them successfully.
Strong interest in code quality and infrastructure.
Experience with on-call support for production systems.
Responsibilities
Drive system architecture and technical direction for the team.
Lead the development and maintenance of high-quality software solutions.
Promote a culture of efficient deterministic testing and minimize technical debt.
Break down large projects into manageable tasks and provide accurate project estimates.
Influence product architecture and roadmap for the organization.
Mentor engineers, helping them understand the strategic goals of the company.
Collaborate across multiple product lines and functions to achieve company objectives.
Benefits
Opportunities for coaching and mentorship in technical skills and career development.
Focus on personal growth across four major areas: technical skills, impact of work, organizational knowledge, and communication.
Challenging and meaningful work that impacts the global economy.
A culture of continuous improvement and innovation in software solutions.
Full Job Description
The team's mission is to empower institutions to settle digital assets safely and at scale, improving digital asset liquidity while reducing their counterparty risk. This is a nascent business line at Anchorage Digital with huge potential
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 for the Atlas business. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture, technical direction and each team member's technical skill development
At Anchorage Digital, we believe the product is never "done," we can always do better! When you join Anchorage, we expect you to drive our products forward by developing novel solutions for our institutional clients. As a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem.
We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital "Villagers" better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
Technical skills
Complexity and impact of work
Organizational knowledge
Communication and influence
Technical Skills:
Build secure, resilient infrastructure from the ground up!
Review code across the entire stack and engineering organization while actively participating in product development.
Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
Find simple solutions to complex software design problems
Efficiently implement high quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise and well tested)
Production support. Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot, mitigate and learn from production incidents to reduce their incidence.
Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
Break down large projects into smaller tasks, an accurately estimate the size of multi-person projects
Ship code that will impact the global economy.
Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).
Organizational Knowledge:
Work across multiple product lines such as Anchorage Digital Trading, Custody and our suite of API integrations.
Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.
Help scale the team.
Communication and Influence:
Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage Digital and how their work relates to these.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
You have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services
You have designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs
You have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services
You are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features
You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
You have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.
You have experience performing on-call support for production systems
You prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech."
You developed "computer science fundamentals", i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required).
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
Professional experience with C++ or Go.
Professional experience with Kubernetes
Professional experience with front end development, especially Typescript/React.
You have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys)
You have a background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries.
