Software Engineer

Member of Technical Staff, Transparency (Backend Engineer) 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 through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. You will be part of a full‑stack engineering team charged with improving the client onboarding experience through front‑end enhancements and back‑end APIs, capturing critical data for record keeping and auditing, and supporting transaction monitoring and screening for risk detection, fraud prevention, and anti‑money laundering. The team collaborates directly with compliance, customer experience, and legal teams as well as external third‑party systems to support the company’s regulatory commitments as the first and only federally chartered digital asset bank. Technical Skills Wide-ranging experience, uses in‑depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways. Adept at designing and building solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality. Complexity and Impact of Work Drives work independently, leads or significantly contributes to medium‑to‑large projects or processes, usually multi‑person interdepartmental or cross‑functional projects, including leading from end‑to‑end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members. Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade‑offs, justifies and recommends priorities. Organizational Knowledge Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure. Monitors the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed. Communication and Influence Mentors and guides others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and helps others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these. Communicates outside team boundaries to solve problems, networks with other teams, and establishes positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains. You may be a fit for this role, if you: You have real‑world experience building complex distributed systems. You have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture. You prioritize end‑user experience and business value over the latest tech. You have studied computer science fundamentals such as concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (formal CS degree not required). You are able to work in a fast‑paced agile software environment and can context‑switch between multiple simultaneous tasks. You believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every day, learning from and mentoring others. Although not a requirement, bonus points if: You have experience implementing effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry. You have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, gRPC, and Temporal. You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open‑source projects to root cause a bug. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. #J-18808-Ljbffr