At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a Tech Lead, Core Experience, you will work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and the rest of the engineering team to plan, build, release and maintain high quality software. You will be the primary driver of the system architecture, technical direction and team member’s technical skill development.
\nThe ideal candidate will have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services, have designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs, and have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services. They will be passionate about building automated tests alongside their features, enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time, and have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.
\nAs a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem. 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 Tech Lead role.
\nResponsibilities:\nCreate and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire services.\nReview code across the engineering organization while actively participating in product development.\nFind simple solutions to complex software problems.\nEfficiently implement high quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise and well tested).\nProduction support. Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot, mitigate and learn from production incidents to reduce their incidence.\nDrive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.
\nComplexity and Impact of Work:\nLead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces.\nFind the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).\nFoster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on controlling tech debt.\nArticulate effectively different options considered in projects, analyzing trade-offs and recommending priorities.\nHelp define the technical strategy of the team.
\nOrganizational Knowledge:\nEnsure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.\nCollaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.\nHelp scale the team.
\nCommunication and Influence:\nMentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these.\nAble to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.\nInfluence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
\nYou may be a fit for this role, if you:\nHave 8+ years of professional experience building backend services.\nHave designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs.\nHave experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services.\nAre passionate about building automated tests alongside your features.\nEnjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.\nHave a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.\nHave experience performing on-call support for production systems.\nPrioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”\nDeveloped “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required).\nHave real world experience building complex distributed systems.\nBelieve software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.\nYou enjoy working closely with the product team to ship the best solution in a reasonable amount of time.
\nAlthough not a requirement, bonus points if you:\nHave professional experience with C++ or Go, Kubernetes, GraphQL API design and implementation and/or gRPC API design and implementation.\nHave experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys).\nHave a background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries.\nYou were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system :)
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