Member of Technical Staff, Core Experience
Anchorage Digital
Technical Skills:
- Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire constellation of micro-services.
- Improve our code base by refactoring bottlenecks, reducing feedback loops and simplifying APIs.
- Develop user friendly APIs.
- Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.
- Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate flexible and pragmatic solutions.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features.
- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
- Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and help the team navigate the ambiguity of the space. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Ensures that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.
Communication and Influence:
- Able to mentor engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these
- Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.
You may be a fit for this role, if you:
- You have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure.
- You prioritize end-user experience and business over the latest tech
- You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
- You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
- 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
- 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 were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
Compensation at Anchorage Digital:
- Compensation at Anchorage Digital is market-driven and data-informed. All full-time employees receive a market-leading salary, meaningful equity, and a generous perks and benefits package.
- Compensation Range: €85,000+ - this salary range may be inclusive of multiple regional locations and job grades. This compensation range will be narrowed during the interview process based on skills, abilities, and experience required. ****We partner with third party firms annually to verify equity, cash, benefits, and perks benchmarks.
- Benefits: Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees. We are only 1% of companies who offer 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. This means no monthly out-of-pocket premiums for you or your family. We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees globally.
- You can learn more about our culture and perks and benefits here.