About the company
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. Weāre 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.
Job Summary
Technical Skills:
šParticipate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems šUse your knowledge of the trading system domain to influence the technical direction of Anchorage Digital. Advocate for improved processes or technology when appropriate. šDive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions šReview other developerās code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Brokerage engineering team šComplexity and Impact of Work: šAble to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features šCapable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities. šOrganizational Knowledge: šEnsures that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure. šCollaborate cross-functionally with the Brokerage team and other teams at Anchorage Digital šCommunication and Influence: šMentors and guides multiple 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 šUnderstands others' context or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and adjusts communication to ensure maximum impact and effectiveness
You may be a fit for this role, if you have:
šHave experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Golang, Java, C#, C++, Rust. šHave experience with modern software development practices, including automated unit, integration and end to end testing, cloud development, database design and interaction using MySQL or PostgreSQL and experience using Git. šHave knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of several (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. šHave real world experience building financial trading systems. šAre passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, SOLID, refactoring, etc). šGenuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure. šHave developed ācomputer science fundamentalsā, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required). šBelieve software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.
