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. We’re 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:
📍Create and maintain shared code and libraries that are used by other HSM engineers. 📍Improve our code base by refactoring bottlenecks, reducing feedback loops and simplifying APIs. 📍Review other developer’s code to ensure proper security invariants across the engineering team. 📍Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate flexible and pragmatic solutions.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
📍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. 📍Utilize your ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and help the team navigate the ambiguity of the space. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justifies and recommend priorities.
Organizational Knowledge:
📍Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself 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: 📍Mentor engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these. 📍Communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.
You may be a fit for this role if:
📍Your programming language of choice is C/C++. 📍You have comprehensive experience with secure low level C/C++ programming, kernel development/hardening, and/or embedded systems. 📍You have a deep understanding of common crypto algorithms (RSA, ECDSA, BLS, etc.), code signing, network security, authentication/authorization, and the threat landscape for state-of-the-art attacks. 📍You have real world experience shipping products and implementing secure frameworks, libraries, and services. 📍You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure. 📍You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”. 📍You self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.
