Member of Technical Staff, Trading (Derivatives) at Anchorage Digital

This Mid-level, remote Engineering role is ideal for a software engineer with at least 3 years of professional experience, specifically with Go. The ideal candi

Work type: remote

Location: United States

Type: Full-time

Summary

This Mid-level, remote Engineering role is ideal for a software engineer with at least 3 years of professional experience, specifically with Go. The ideal candidate has built financial trading systems before and possesses knowledge of concepts like OEMS, FIX, low-latency architecture, or derivatives trading. A solid understanding of modern software development practices, including testing and cloud development, is also crucial. Key highlights include being part of a well-funded, federally chartered crypto bank with a significant Series D valuation. This fully remote position offers the flexibility of working from anywhere in the US and emphasizes career development through clear "Factors of Growth & Impact" and mentorship. You'll be working in the fast-paced and evolving crypto industry, building foundational technology for institutional digital asset trading. You might be a good fit if you... * Have a strong background in Go and have built financial trading systems. * Understand modern software engineering practices, including rigorous testing. * Are comfortable diving into complex problems and advocating for technical improvements. * Enjoy collaborating with a team and mentoring others.

Job Description

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.

You will be implementing front office and back office trading systems that are used by institutional investors around the world on a daily basis to trade, invest and exchange cryptocurrency assets. 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 think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Front End Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:

## Technical Skills:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems


• Use your knowledge of the trading system domain to influence the technical direction of the Brokerage team. Advocate for improved processes or technology when appropriate.


• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions


• Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Brokerage engineering team


• Drive iterative system improvement by implementing robust instrumentation and metric collection.

• Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features


• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities.

• Ensure that knowledge is shared across the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.


• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Brokerage team and other teams at Anchorage Digital

• Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within your area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of the Brokerage team and how your work relates to these


• Understands others' context or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and adjusts communication to ensure maximum impact and effectiveness

• Have 3+ years of professional experience with Go.


• Have experience with modern software development practices, including automated unit, integration and end to end testing, cloud development, database design and interaction using MySQL or PostgreSQL and experience using Git.


• Have knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of several (not all) of the following topics: Order Execution Management Systems (OEMS), FIX protocol, market data, low latency application architectures and messaging, matching engines, FX trading, OTC, derivatives, position/risk management, cryptocurrency trading, trading back office systems.


• Have real world experience building financial trading systems.


• Are passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, SOLID, refactoring, etc).


• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.


• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

• Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience


• Have gRPC API design and implementation experience


• Have a background in the finance industry


• Have experience working with digital asset (i.e. cryptocurrency) trading

We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Front End Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:

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