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Anchorage

Member of Technical Staff, Wealth (Technical Lead)

Technical Lead driving architecture and developing backend APIs for wealth management, custody, and trading systems in crypto. Requires 8+ years experience with distributed systems, leadership on complex projects, and strong CS fundamentals.

United StatesBackend EngineeringRemote8+ YOE
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About the role

Responsibilities

Technical Skills

  • Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Wealth systems.
  • Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage’s engineering and team standards.
  • Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems and formulate elegant solutions.
  • Drive down technical complexity and refactor systems safely.
  • Review code to ensure consistency and share context.

Complexity and Impact

  • Lead large, strategic, ambiguous projects.
  • Define technical strategy.
  • Balance progress and perfection.
  • Foster efficient testing culture minimizing tech debt.

Organizational and Communication

  • Share knowledge to avoid single points of failure.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Mentor team members and influence roadmap.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building backend services.
  • Experience with complex distributed systems (Go preferred).
  • Led large-scale architectural projects.
  • Build resilient, scalable services.
  • Prioritize user experience and business value.
  • Strong code quality and testing focus.
  • Computer science fundamentals (concurrency, algorithms, data structures).
  • Team-oriented collaborator.

Nice-to-Haves

  • GraphQL API experience.
  • gRPC API experience.
  • Finance/Wealth industry background.

Skills

GoDistributed SystemsAPIsGraphQLgRPCConcurrencyAlgorithmsData StructuresMicroservicesTesting

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