Drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization.
Help with hiring high-caliber Engineers to support the growth of the team.
Mentor and collaborate with team members to work toward their career goals.
Drive the processes that can sustain a high-performance engineering team.
Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team.
Lead a team of Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact, and growth.
Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback which levels up all those on your team.
Take ownership over the quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, processes, impact and personal and professional growth for a single team.
Work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape and your plans for the growth and structure of the team.
Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward.
Have a material influence on what Anchorage builds and who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers.
Requirements
Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
Have demonstrated experience in building robust, high-performance complex distributed applications and you thrive on tackling challenging architectural problems and enjoy collaborating with talented engineers to deliver impactful solutions
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.
You have experience in effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry.
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 have familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.
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.