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