Member of Technical Staff – Direct Custody – Backend Engineer
| Company | Anchorage |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Understand the principles of various blockchain and how to abstract them into features for our customers
- Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc.
- Develop abstractions for features that scale and apply across all crypto-networks
- Contribute with and review code across the code base and engineering organization
- Have real world experience building complex distributed systems
- Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention
- Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
- Feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug
- Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech”
- Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required)
Responsibilities
- Provide an industry leading secure custodial and technology service to enable intuitive experiences moving, storing, and interactions with digital assets and smart contracts
- Manage and transfer coins and NFTs
- Interact with onchain smart contracts
- Influence architecture/product roadmap
- Help scale the team
- Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with applied cryptography
- In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
- Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
- Background in the finance industry