Member of Technical Staff, Custody (Backend Engineer)

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.

As a member of the Custody organization you are responsible for providing an industry leading secure custodial and technology service to enable intuitive experiences moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets, smart contracts, or traditional banking rails. Our teams are responsible for the entire custody experience, including the management and transferring of cash, coins and NFTs, staking assets, interacting with onchain smart contracts, fiat transfers, and institutional platform solutions. By joining Anchorage Digital not only will you be a part of a top notch team, but an entire organization dedicated to furthering the crypto ecosystem.

The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Technical Staff, Custody role:

Technical Skills::
• Write clean, well-tested code and grow through code reviews and pairing with senior engineers.
• Contribute to features and bug fixes while learning team patterns and best practices.

Complexity and Impact of Work::
• Deliver quality work iteratively while learning the codebase and domain.
• Take ownership of your tasks and grow into larger areas of responsibility over time.

Organizational Knowledge: :
• Share what you learn and ask questions to build context across the team.
• Understand how your work connects to broader team and company goals.

Communication and Influence::
• Communicate clearly in standups, PRs, and team discussions.
• Collaborate openly and give and receive feedback constructively.

You may be a fit for this role, if you: :
• Are excited to build software that matters and eager to learn how distributed systems work at scale.
• Care about writing quality code and want to grow your engineering fundamentals.
• Are curious, you dig into problems, ask questions, and aren't afraid to explore unfamiliar code.
• Value collaboration over heroics and want to be part of a team that lifts each other up.
• Are humble, ambitious, and eager to learn in a fast-moving industry.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if::
• 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.
• You have GraphQL API design and implementation experience.
• You have gRPC API design and implementation experience.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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