Member of Technical Staff, Self-Custody

As a member of the Self-Custody team, you are responsible for providing an industry leading secure non-custodial and technology service to enable intuitive experiences for moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets and smart contracts. Our team is responsible for the entire self-custody experience; this includes the management and transferring of digital assets, staking assets, interacting with onchain smart contracts, and much more! We are an end-to-end team, comprised of backend, frontend, and iOS engineers, which allows us to truly own the product. By joining Anchorage Digital, you will be part of a top-notch team and an entire organization dedicated to furthering the crypto ecosystem.

We have created the Factors of Growth&Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Software Engineer, Self-Custody role:

Technical Skills

• Understand the principles of various blockchains and how to abstract them into features for our customers.
• Implement participatory features that clients need, such as staking, governance, vesting, etc.
• Develop abstractions for features that scale and apply across all crypto-networks.
• Contribute with and review code across the codebase and engineering organization.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• 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.
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.
• Ship code that will impact the global economy.

Organizational Knowledge

• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
• Help scale the team.

Communication and Influence

• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.

You may be a fit for this role if you

• Have real-world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework.
• Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• Have developed “computer science fundamentals,” i.e., concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• Self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hard-working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if

• 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.