Backend Engineering (Cryptoassets)

Role Description:

• Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage’s custody platform.
• Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking and governance.
• Develop infrastructure that scales across all crypo-networks.
• Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues.
• Review code across the entire stack and engineering organization while actively participating in product development.
• 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.
• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.
• Help scale the team.
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.
• Ship code that will impact the global economy.

Buzzwords:

• Backend Tech: Go, C, Solidity, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL.
• Frontend Tech: JavaScript, ReactJS, Flow, D3, CSS Modules, Webpack, Jest, and Cypress.
• Mobile Tech: Swift, RxSwift, CocoaPods, and Secure Enclave.
• Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code.

Qualifications:

• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
• You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Bonus Points:

• You have experience with applied cryptography.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• 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've seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton (the founder of our nation's financial system :).

Company Benefits (Mid-Pandemic):

• 100% coverage of health, dental, & vision for you and your dependents.
• One Medical Membership.
• Pre-tax commuter/parking benefits.
• 401(k) plan & FSA.
• Flexible, guilt-free, vacation policy.
• Monthly mental health day.
• Home workstation budget.
• Employee training & development.
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.