Member of Technical Staff, Wealth (Technical Lead)

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. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.   The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.

As a member of the Wealth & Assets Management team, 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. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture and technical direction of the team. You will develop APIs and automation for client services across critical business areas supporting financial advisors and their clients, custody of assets, and trading systems. Your work will directly to influence custody, protocols, core infrastructure, and transparency systems that power Anchorage's institutional digital asset custody platform.   The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.   We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Tech Lead role:

Technical Skills:

Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Wealth systems.

Writes, reviews, tests, and documents code according to Anchorage’s engineering and team standards, and practices.

Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.

Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.

Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Wealth engineering team.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces.

Help define the technical strategy of the team.

Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).

Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.

Organizational Knowledge:

Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.

Collaborate cross-functionally with the Wealth team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.

Communication and Influence:

Mentor and guide team members within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these.

Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.

Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

Have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services.

Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework

Have led large scale, complicated projects on an architectural level.

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 (Formal CS degree NOT required).

You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.

Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience.

Have gRPC API design and implementation experience.

Have a background in the finance industry, specifically the Wealth 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 600 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 are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.   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. Please see our privacy policy notices here.