Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Backend Engineer)

Skills

About the Role

As a member of the Custody organization, you will provide an industry-leading secure custodial and technology service enabling intuitive experiences for moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets, smart contracts, and traditional banking rails. You will participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Custody systems, writing, reviewing, testing, and documenting code according to high engineering standards. You will dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems and formulate elegant, practical solutions. You will drive work independently, leading or significantly contributing to medium-to-large cross-functional projects end-to-end with little oversight, breaking large projects into smaller tasks and accurately estimating time and scope. You will foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, minimize tech debt, mentor and guide others on the team, and collaborate cross-functionally across Anchorage Digital while communicating outside team boundaries to solve problems.

Requirements

• Real world experience building complex distributed systems
• Experience building resilient services that handle different volumes of work without manual intervention
• Strong computer science fundamentals including concurrency, algorithms, and data structures
• Focus on code quality and test infrastructure
• Prioritization of end-user experience and business value
• Enjoy collaborating, learning from and mentoring others

Responsibilities

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Custody systems
• Write, review, test, and document code according to engineering standards and practices
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems and formulate elegant and practical solutions
• Review other developers' code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context
• Lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large cross-functional projects end-to-end
• Break down large projects into smaller tasks and accurately estimate time and scope
• Analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture and minimize tech debt
• Ensure knowledge is shared among the team
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and other teams
• Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization
• Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems and establish positive working relationships