Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital

Custody Frontend Engineer

$126.4-184.9k

+ Equity

JavaScript
GraphQL
Vue.js
Ember
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

Job no longer available

Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Job no longer available

$126.4-184.9k

+ Equity

JavaScript
GraphQL
Vue.js
Ember
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Company mission

To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.

Role

Who you are

  • You have real world experience building web applications/UI from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
  • You’ve mastered at least one JavaScript framework (ex. React.Js, Angular.Js, Vue.Js, Ember, etc.)
  • 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, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious

Desirable

  • You have production experience with web security
  • You’ve built a Chrome extension
  • 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
  • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

What the job involves

  • You will be implementing professional, high quality UIs that are used by institutional investors around the world on a daily basis to trade, invest and exchange cryptocurrency assets
  • We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Front End Software Engineering role
  • You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
  • Technical skills
  • Complexity and impact of work
  • Organizational knowledge
  • Communication and influence
  • Implement UI designs to create an intuitive user experience for managing cryptocurrency
  • Review other developer’s UI code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the front-end engineering discipline
  • Ability to implement automated UI tests to validate your features work as expected
  • Work across the front-end engineering discipline at Anchorage Digital to level up our UIs while building simple and reusable components
  • Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice)
  • Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation
  • Ship code that will impact the global economy
  • Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy
  • Review code across the entire front-end discipline while actively participating in product development
  • Help scale the team
  • Work closely with Backend engineers propose/review GraphQL API changes
  • Collaborate with Product managers and designers to brainstorm and align on new design changes
  • Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table

Our take

Anchorage is a crypto-native digital asset platform offering a raft of solutions that help companies leverage blockchain technologies. Their advanced security architecture facilitates streamlined access to the complex and fragmented digital asset space.

Financial backing for Anchorage has come from prestigious investors Visa and Andreessen Horowitz. Anchorage's broad offerings are set to be matched by plans to partner across a wide spread of neobanks, challenger & incumbent banks, and corporate treasurers. This would mean an impressive expansion of their already substantial domain of influence in a rapidly developing sector.

In early 2021, Anchorage secured a national trust charter from the OCC, making it the first-ever federally chartered digital asset bank. This is significant, as it provides a good barrier to entry for other companies looking to compete in this space, and gives legacy institutions the ability to offer digital asset access to their clients. Though it has raised considerable funding in the past, crypto instability and wider macroeconomic challenges forced Anchorage to cut 20% of its staff in March 2023. 2022 clampdowns on customer due dilligence internal controllers added to the pressure on Anchorage to streamline and refocus its efforts.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Dec 2021

$350m

SERIES D

Feb 2021

$80m

SERIES C

Total funding: $487m

Company benefits

  • 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
  • Family comes first: we offer parental and child bonding leave to all new parents
  • Meaningful equity - Every team member is a part owner in the company and community that we’re all building together
  • We allow employees to work anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal, and have physical workspaces in New York, San Francisco, South Dakota, and Portugal
  • Flexible time-off plan - Take time off, guilt-free, so you can recharge when you need to
  • 401(k) plan & FSA account

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

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Founders

Diogo Mónica

(Executive Chairman)

Former advisor and board member at Jscrambler and advisor at StackRox with Phd in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Tecnico.

Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.

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