Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Frontend Engineer)

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The role of Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Frontend Engineer) involves implementing high-quality UIs for institutional investors, collaborating with backend engineers, and contributing to product development in the rapidly evolving crypto industry.

Responsibilities:

• Implement UI designs to create an intuitive user experience for managing cryptocurrency
• Review other developer’s UI code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the front-end engineering discipline
• Ability to implement automated UI tests to validate your features work as expected
• Work across the front-end engineering discipline at Anchorage Digital to level up our UIs while building simple and reusable components
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
• Ship code that will impact the global economy
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
• Review code across the entire front-end discipline while actively participating in product development
• Help scale the team
• Work closely with Backend engineers propose/review GraphQL API changes
• Collaborate with Product managers and designers to brainstorm and align on new design changes
• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table

Requirements:

• Have real world experience building web applications/UI from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
• Have mastered at least one JavaScript framework (ex. React.Js, Angular.Js, Vue.Js, Ember, etc.)
• 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, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious
• Have production experience with web security
• Have built a Chrome extension
• Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
• Have a background in the finance industry
• Were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system