About the Role
Title: Member of Technical Staff, Settlements
Location: United States
Type: Full-Time – Remote
Workplace: remote
Category: Engineering
JobDescription:
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn.
We are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in New York City, Sioux Falls, Porto, Lisbon, and Singapore. For our colleagues not located near our beautiful offices, we encourage and sponsor quarterly in-person collaboration days to work together and further deepen our Village.
As a member of the Brokerage team you will be implementing trading systems that are used by institutional investors around the world on a daily basis to trade, invest and exchange cryptocurrency assets. The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry. You will work with a small, highly collaborative team to design, implement and maintain high performance software with low latency and high up time requirements.
We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies – and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Technical Staff role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
Technical Skills:
- Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems.
- Write, review, test, and document code according to Anchorage engineering and team standards and practices.
- Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Brokerage engineering team.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Work on a distributed team to deliver small to medium sized features.
- Break down large tasks and solve moderately complex software engineering problems, with guidance from more senior engineers.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Ensure that knowledge is shared with the team and do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure.
Communication and Influence:
- Contribute to sprint planning and task estimation and collaborate with the team to solve problems.
- Know when to ask for help and share knowledge with colleagues.
You may be a fit for this role, if you:
- Love to learn, and are motivated to push yourself to grow.
- Are passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, refactoring, documentation, etc).
- Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
- Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
- Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience.
- Have gRPC API design and implementation experience.
- Have knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of any (not all) of the following topics: Order Execution Management Systems (OEMS), FIX protocol, market data, low latency application architectures and messaging, matching engines, FX trading, cryptocurrency trading, trading back office systems.