Member of Technical Staff, Financial Infrastructure

Anchorage Digital Engineer Opportunity

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.

With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.

We are building infrastructure that enables the world's largest financial institutions—banks, broker-dealers, fintechs, and payments companies—to offer digital asset services to their end clients. Think banking-as-a-service, but for crypto custody, trading, staking, and more.

This is a greenfield opportunity to architect and build a platform that will power the next generation of institutional digital asset adoption. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge crypto technology and the rigorous standards required by regulated financial services.

As an engineer on this team, you will drive the technical direction of our infrastructure services platform, mentor other engineers, and help shape the product roadmap. You'll own critical systems from design through production.

Technical Skills:

• Build secure, scalable infrastructure that powers digital asset custody, trading, staking, and settlement for enterprise financial institutions
• Design and implement virtual accounting layers, API integrations, and multi-tenant platform architectures
• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, design specs, and mentorship across the engineering organization
• Foster an efficient testing culture with emphasis on security, reliability, and minimizing tech debt in a regulated environment

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Lead complex cross-functional projects spanning custody, trading, compliance, and client integration
• Break down large initiatives into well-scoped deliverables; accurately estimate multi-person, multi-quarter projects
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of platform features—from architecture through production support and on-call rotation
• Find the right balance between shipping velocity and the perfection required for regulated financial infrastructure

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate across product lines and with enterprise clients to understand and deliver on their infrastructure needs
• Work closely with compliance, legal, and security teams to ensure platform meets regulatory requirements
• Contribute to scaling the team through hiring, onboarding, and knowledge sharing

Communication and Influence:

• Influence architecture decisions and product roadmap—have a seat at the table with leadership
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team; help others connect their work to Anchorage's strategic goals
• Communicate effectively with external stakeholders, including enterprise clients and partners

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

• 8+ years of professional experience building backend services and distributed systems
• Experience designing and delivering customer-facing APIs and multi-tenant platform architectures
• Experience with cloud-native microservices (we use GCP, but experience with other cloud providers is sufficient)
• A track record of building automated tests alongside your features and maintaining production systems over time
• Experience performing on-call support and incident response for production systems
• Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems design)—formal CS degree not required
• A genuine interest in code quality, infrastructure reliability, and security
• The ability to prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech"

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Professional experience with C++, Go, or Rust
• Professional experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience building ledger systems, virtual accounting layers, or custody infrastructure
• Background in financial services, fintech, or banking-as-a-service platforms
• Experience with system security (authentication, authorization, identity management, API keys)
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements for financial institutions (SOC 2, bank examinations, etc.)
• Background in the cryptocurrency or digital assets industry
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

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 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.

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