Member of Technical Staff

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrates a wide-ranging experience, uses in-depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways.
• Adept at designing and building solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.
• Capable 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.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.

Communication and Influence

• Mentors and guides others 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.
• Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains.

You may be a fit for this role, if you:

• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over the latest tech.
• You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You are able to work in a fast-paced agile software environment, and able to context switch between multiple simultaneous tasks.
• 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:

• You have experience implementing effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry.
• Have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, gRPC and Temporal.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)