Engineering Manager, Cryptoassets

At Anchorage we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.Anchorage Digital was founded in 2017 to advance institutional participation in digital assets. With an emphasis on security and usability, we provide the technology, infrastructure, and tools that make it easy for institutions across the world to participate in crypto. Our team brings together the brightest minds from security, finance, and distributed systems to build the infrastructure of a new financial system. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn.We are a remote-first, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in San Francisco, New York City, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Porto, and Singapore.The mission of an Engineering Manager is to drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization. As an Engineering Manager, you are expected to help with hiring high-caliber Engineers to support the growth of the team, mentor and collaborate with team members to work toward their career goals, and drive the processes that can sustain a high-performance engineering team.The Cryptoassets team is the back-end team at Anchorage Digital that works most closely to the blockchain. We are responsible for developing cutting-edge digital assets on top of the latest blockchain technologies, and working closely with product and design teams to build out DeFi, governance, and participation mechanisms with blockchains.

As an Engineering Manager you will:

• Build, mentor, and manage a highly diverse team of varying engineering skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience. 
• 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. 
• Improve the efficiency of the team by identifying the bottlenecks, issues and areas of improvement within the engineering organization.
• Grow, evolve and operate an industry leading set of products.

You may be a fit for this role if:

• You have 4+ years of technical experience as a full-time software engineer and 2+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager.
• You have meaningful experience leading distributed teams, working cross functionally across varying time zones.
• You’ve maintained a “player-coach” skillset and feel comfortable conducting live technical programming interviews.
• You genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the “why” and the “how,” not just the “what.”
• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time. 
• You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure. 
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required). 
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious. 

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have experience with applied cryptography.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug. 
• 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.

Tech Stack:

• Backend Tech: Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, C++ and GraphQL.
• Frontend Tech: JavaScript, ReactJS, Typescript, CSS Modules, Webpack, Jest, and Cypress.
• Mobile Tech:  Swift, RxSwift, CocoaPods, and Secure Enclave.
• Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant.

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 do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

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