# Member of Technical Staff, Reporting & Statements (Backend Engineer)

**Company:** [Anchorage](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anchorage-digital)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, REST APIs, GraphQL, Postgres, BigQuery, GCP, API Design
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Founding backend engineer building REST/GraphQL APIs and service layers to deliver accurate, scalable financial reports and statements to institutional crypto clients. Requires 5+ years experience designing production APIs, data-intensive services, and cloud-native systems (Go/Python, databases, GCP preferred).

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data to internal product teams and external clients.
- Build service integration layer between backend services and the data platform, ensuring reliable data flow and error handling.
- Shape architectural decisions collaboratively for the API and service delivery infrastructure.
- Balance competing requirements of accuracy, performance, and scalability while delivering reporting products on tight client deadlines.
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer.
- Partner with Product teams to design APIs that enable self-service access to financial data.
- Champion API design best practices and service reliability standards in partnership with teams across the engineering organization.
- Contribute to technical roadmap planning and help build a supportive, collaborative engineering culture for the new team.

## Requirements
- 5-7+ years building backend systems with experience collaborating on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale.
- Service stewardship mindset: responsible for services end-to-end in production environments and understand what it takes to build reliable, observable, maintainable systems.
- Proficient in Go or Python with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs; understand how to design interfaces that balance flexibility with performance.
- Built backend services that interact with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar) and understand query optimization, connection pooling, and data consistency patterns.
- Experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP), including containerization, monitoring, and incident response.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Built GraphQL APIs and understand the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST for different use cases.
- Worked in fintech, banking, or similar environments where data accuracy and auditability are critical requirements.
- Worked closely with data engineering teams and understand modern data stack patterns (data warehouses, orchestration, CDC, etc.).

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