Member of Technical Staff, Atlas

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 
The team’s mission is to empower institutions to settle assets safely and at scale, improving digital asset liquidity while reducing their counterparty risk.
The primary task of this position is to translate requirements into code quickly and efficiently! You will be part of a small, high performing team that collaborates closely to design, implement and maintain new software components and services
At Anchorage Digital, we believe the product is never "done," we can always do better! When you join Anchorage, we expect you to drive our products forward by developing novel solutions for our institutional clients. As a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem.
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 Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
Technical skillsComplexity and impact of workOrganizational knowledgeCommunication and influence

Technical Skills:

• Build secure, resilient infrastructure from the ground up!
• Perform regular code reviews
• Minimize tech debt by refactoring code and writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Ship code that will impact the global economy.
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and with other teams
• Eventually participate in the interview process

Communication and Influence:

• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
• Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage Digital and how their work relates to these.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• You have 3+ years of professional experience building API first back end services (e.g. REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
• You have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services
• You are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features
• 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 have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required).

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Professional experience with C++ or Go.
• Professional experience with Kubernetes
• You have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys)
• You have a background in the finance industry.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are