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:
- 8+ years of professional experience building backend services
- Designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs
- Experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services
- Passionate about building automated tests alongside your features
- Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
- Genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.
- Experience performing on-call support for production systems
- Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
- 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.
- Experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys)
- Background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries.