Member of Technical Staff, Transparency (Backend Engineer)

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The role involves improving client onboarding experiences and supporting compliance efforts through collaboration with various teams.

Responsibilities:

• You will be part of a full stack engineering team charged with improving the client onboarding experience through front-end enhancements and back-end API's, capturing critical data for record keeping and auditing, and supporting transaction monitoring and screening for risk detection, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering
• Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects
• Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
• Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed
• Mentors and guides others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these
• Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains

Requirements:

• Demonstrates a wide-ranging experience, uses in-depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways
• Adept at designing and building solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality
• Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities
• Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
• Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed
• Mentors and guides others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these
• Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains
• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems
• You have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over the latest tech
• You developed 'computer science fundamentals', i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)
• You are able to work in a fast-paced agile software environment, and able to context switch between multiple simultaneous tasks
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others
• You have experience implementing effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry
• Have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, gRPC and Temporal
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system