Engineering Lead
Digital Assets Platform
Posted on 2/4/2023
INACTIVE
Anchorage

201-500 employees

Institutional Investing Infrastructure for Crypto
Company Overview
Anchorage Digital is on a mission to make it simple for institutions to build products and use digital assets.
Financial Services
Crypto & Web3

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$487M

Founded

2017

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

-8%

2 year growth

28%
Locations
United States
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team
  • Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering and leadership skills more than any specific language or framework
  • Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
  • Experience in building Platforms that go both from 0 to 1 and 1 to 2.0
  • Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
  • Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
  • Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious
Responsibilities
  • Lead a team of Managers and seasoned Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact and personal and professional growth
  • Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback which levels up all of those on your team
  • Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personal/professional progression of every member on your team
  • Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward
  • Take ownership over the quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, processes, impact and personal and professional growth for your teams
  • Work with the Head of Engineering and other leadership team members to drive improvements and outcomes for the organization
  • Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds, but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers
  • Work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape and your plans for the growth and structure of the team
Desired Qualifications
  • You have experience with applied cryptography
  • In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
  • You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
  • You have a background in the finance industry