Member of Technical Staff, Reporting & Statements (Backend Engineer)

Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. The role involves designing systems for financial reporting and statements, implementing APIs, and collaborating closely with data engineers and product teams to ensure reliable data flow and service delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data to internal product teams and external clients
• Build service integration layer between backend services and the data platform, ensuring reliable data flow and error handling
• Shape architectural decisions collaboratively for the API and service delivery infrastructure as a founding engineer on the team
• Balance competing requirements of accuracy, performance, and scalability while delivering reporting products on tight client deadlines
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer
• Partner with Product teams to design APIs that enable self-service access to financial data
• Champion API design best practices and service reliability standards in partnership with teams across the engineering organization
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning and help build a supportive, collaborative engineering culture for the new team

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years building backend systems: You have experience collaborating on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale
• Service stewardship mindset: You've been responsible for services end-to-end in production environments and understand what it takes to build reliable, observable, maintainable systems
• API design experience: You're proficient in Go or Python with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, and you understand how to design interfaces that balance flexibility with performance
• Data-intensive systems: You've built backend services that interact with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar) and understand query optimization, connection pooling, and data consistency patterns
• Cloud-native development: You have experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP), including containerization, monitoring, and incident response
• GraphQL experience: You've built GraphQL APIs and understand the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST for different use cases
• Financial domain knowledge: You've worked in fintech, banking, or similar environments where data accuracy and auditability are critical requirements
• Data platform collaboration: You've worked closely with data engineering teams and understand modern data stack patterns (data warehouses, orchestration, CDC, etc.)
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system