Member of Technical Staff, Banking Solutions

Technical Skills:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of the team
• Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage’s engineering and team standards, and practices.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.
• Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.
• Use ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects.
• Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.
• Monitor the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.
• Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems, network with other teams, and establish positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering and management skills more than any specific language or framework.
• Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have experience with applied cryptography.
• In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.
• You have a background in the finance industry.
• You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity.
• You are familiar with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.