Member of Technical Staff, Foundation (Backend Engineer)

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a Member of Technical Staff on the Domain Engineering team, you will ensure a robust technology stack and contribute to complex engineering projects, allowing product teams to focus on developing customer-focused features.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify areas for improvements across our engineering stack
• Previous experience in establishing shared libraries across teams, with a focus on standardization, code quality, and reduced duplication
• Proven experience with application observability projects that involved setting up performance metrics, log aggregation, tracing, and alerting systems
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
• Ship code that will impact the whole organization
• Collaborate across multiple teams, especially on integration, standardization, and shared resources
• Influence others by engaging in in-depth technical design discussions and demonstrating best practices through technical leadership by example
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with colleagues to drive collaboration and innovation

Requirements:

• Strong individual contributor with the ability to significantly contribute to and execute complex engineering projects
• Ability to understand the 'why' to connect dependencies to the 'bigger picture' and Anchorage mission and product roadmap
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify areas for improvements across the engineering stack
• Previous experience in establishing shared libraries across teams, with a focus on standardization, code quality, and reduced duplication
• Proven experience with application observability projects that involved setting up performance metrics, log aggregation, tracing, and alerting systems
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
• Ship code that will impact the whole organization
• Collaborate across multiple teams, especially on integration, standardization, and shared resources
• Influence others by engaging in in-depth technical design discussions and demonstrating best practices through technical leadership by example
• Make a meaningful impact across the entire engineering organization, extending influence beyond the immediate team
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with colleagues to drive collaboration and innovation
• Passionate about constantly seeking opportunities to refine and enhance existing systems and processes
• Driven by a passion for being a force multiplier and influential technical leader in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment
• Expert coding skills in Golang
• Experienced in cross-functional projects, collaborating effectively with your team and adjacent teams to tackle complex challenges
• Excellent soft skills, including the ability to adapt communication for both internal and external stakeholders in an effective manner, bridging gaps with empathy and proactive communication
• Infrastructure-as-code; Terraform, Gitops, Helm
• Google Cloud Platform & Security