Head of Engineering

Anchorage Digital is an industry leader, a dynamic startup and growing business, and a diverse and welcoming team where individual professional growth is priority. Founded in 2017, Anchorage is a regulated platform that offers institutions simple and secure participation in digital assets, all integrated with industry-leading custody. We’re the infrastructure company behind your favorite bank or fintech company and the platform for institutional participation in digital assets. Additionally, Anchorage Digital received the first federal banking charter for a digital bank in January 2021, setting the standard for crypto regulation in the United States. Anchorage has raised a total of $137M in funding from leading investors including GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Andreessen Horowitz, VISA, Blockchain Capital.We are looking for a Head of Engineering to grow our global engineering team during a period of high-growth and innovation. The ideal candidate is one who is passionate about collaborating and scaling engineering organizational structures, and drawing on technical and project leadership to ensure smooth executive and delivery across teams. This person will partner with engineering, product, and people operations to establish and scale an organizational vision, team structures and charters, recruiting, and retention in support of product and business goals.

As the Head of Engineering you will:

• Develop, deliver, and continuously improvement of Anchorage technologies and products to best serve the growing needs of our clients
• Grow the technical expertise of the company as it relates to performance, scalability, security, and maintainable infrastructure
• Collaborate with the Head of Product to define and execute against the technical vision of the company
• Hire, lead, organize, and motivate an engineering team to accomplish objectives
• Foster a world-class engineering culture and equip the team with resources to succeed 
• Contribute to strategic business planning and effectively communicate capabilities and trade-offs to achieve overall company goals

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Experience leading engineering orgs in start-ups or high-growth, product-led companies
• A well-defined, but adaptable playbook for how to grow and scale engineering teams and execution
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing a 100+ global engineering organization as well as coaching engineering directors and/or managers to build a culture of trust and high performance across all teams
• Proven success and track record collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to effectively communicate technical trade-offs, timelines, decisions, implications to the senior management team and other team members
• The ability to convey complex ideas briefly and simply
• Proven experience managing, communicating, inspiring and leading teams through periods of significant growth
• You have proven success in working with Product and Sales teams to provide capacity planning for the business
• You have high-level knowledge of different technology disciplines (e.g. Cryoto, Data Analysis, Security, DevOps) and ability to grow teams in these work streams

Our Tech Stack:

• Backend Tech: Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL.
• Frontend Tech: JavaScript, ReactJS, Flow, CSS Modules, Webpack, Jest, and Cypress.
• Mobile Tech:  Swift, RxSwift, CocoaPods, and Secure Enclave.
• Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code.

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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