Engineering Manager, Self-Custody

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The Engineering Manager will drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization, help with hiring and mentoring engineers, and manage the self-custody experience for digital 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
• 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:

• Have 8+ years of technical experience as a full-time software engineer
• Have 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager
• Have prior experience managing engineering teams within the blockchain space
• Have experience leading distributed teams, working cross-functionally across varying timezones
• Have maintained a “player-coach” skillset and feel comfortable conducting live technical programming interviews
• Genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the “why” and the “how,” not just the “what.”
• You have experience with applied cryptography
• In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
• You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
• You have a background in the finance industry
• You have worked on a self custody wallet in the past
• You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity
• Familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech