Engineering Manager, Blockchain

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As an Engineering Manager for the Blockchain Integrations team, you will lead a high-performing group responsible for enabling secure, scalable interaction with hundreds of blockchain networks and assets.

Responsibilities:

• Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team
• Showcase your expertise and judgement in tackling complex and ambiguous challenges, delivering scalable solutions
• Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personal/professional progression of every member on your team
• You 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 not only what Anchorage builds, but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team
• Real world experience building complex distributed systems
• 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.'
• 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
• Experience with applied cryptography
• In your mind the word 'crypto' stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
• Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
• Background in the finance industry
• Professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity
• Familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech