At Anchorage Digital, we're on a mission to build the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to engage with cryptocurrency.
As the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital empowers institutions through a variety of services such as custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and unparalleled security infrastructure. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, we also have offices in New York, Porto, Singapore, and Sioux Falls, serving a global clientele.
Joining our Direct Custody team means you will play a crucial role in developing the tools and products that enable our users to manage and interact with their blockchain assets efficiently.
As a Technical Staff Member, you will be dedicated to delivering industry-leading secure custodial technology that offers intuitive experiences for moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets and smart contracts. You will take part in the complete custody experience, including the management and transfer of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, the staking of assets, and interactions with on-chain smart contracts. Our collaborative team comprises backend, frontend, and iOS engineers, ensuring full ownership of the product.
At Anchorage Digital, you will not only be part of a top-notch team but also of an organization committed to advancing the crypto ecosystem in an open-minded environment where every contribution is valued. Your technical expertise, architectural vision, and leadership will significantly impact our initiatives, influencing the trajectory of our projects and shaping the future of our platform.
Technical Skills:
• Understand the principles of various blockchains and transform them into meaningful features for our clients.
• Implement necessary participatory features for our clients, including staking, governance, and vesting.
• Develop scalable abstractions for features that are applicable across different crypto networks.
• Contribute to and review code throughout the engineering organization.
Work Complexity and Impact:
• Balance the need for rapid delivery with quality, ensuring accuracy in our developments.
• Establish a robust testing culture focused on minimizing technical debt.
• Engage at the forefront of blockchain and security operations innovation.
• Deliver code that will have a tangible impact on the global economy.
Organizational Knowledge:
• Influence the architecture and product roadmap by contributing your insights.
• Support team scaling and development.
Communication and Influence:
• Work collaboratively across various functions to achieve our objectives.
You May Be a Fit If You:
• Have practical experience in building complex distributed systems. While we primarily use Go, we appreciate strong engineering skills regardless of the specific language.
• Enjoy creating resilient services capable of managing varying workloads autonomously.
• Value code quality and rigorous testing infrastructure.
• Feel comfortable troubleshooting issues in-depth, even within open source projects.
• Prioritize the end-user experience and the business value over vanity in technology.
• Possess a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals such as concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (formal CS degree not mandatory).
• Identify with traits like creativity, humility, ambition, attention to detail, diligence, trustworthiness, eagerness to learn, methodical approaches to problems, and tenacity.
Although Not Required, Bonus Points For:
• Experience with applied cryptography.
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