Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Backend Engineer)

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.

### Responsibilities - Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Custody systems. - 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. - Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes. - Be capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. - Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt. - Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves 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. - Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain.

### Requirements - Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. - Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention. - Prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech". - Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure. - Have developed "computer science fundamentals", i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures. - Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others. ### Bonus Points - Experience with applied cryptography. - Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations. - Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation. - Experience with gRPC API design and implementation. - Background in the finance industry.

### Conditions - Competitive salary ranging from $135K to $225K. - Fully remote work environment. - Opportunity to work with a diverse team of over 600 members. - Commitment to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace.

Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform providing institutions with custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and security infrastructure for digital assets. It operates Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., and serves clients globally through various licensed entities. The company secures tens of billions in assets and is backed by investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and Visa.