Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain

About Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As a crypto platform, it enables institutions to engage with digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion.

The Role: Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain

As a Member of Technical Staff on the Protocols team, you will be at the forefront of new cryptoasset support. This role requires continuous learning of new blockchains, technologies, and innovations to integrate them into Anchorage Digital's ecosystem. You will be critical in developing a scalable, reproducible, and reliable layer for business lines to interact with diverse blockchains. Expect to contribute to a top-notch team, help it grow through technical expertise, architecting skills, and mentorship.

Key Responsibilities & Impact

Anchorage Digital uses "Factors of Growth & Impact" to measure contributions. For this role, these include:

Technical Skills

• Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital’s platform.
• Implement participatory features clients need, such as staking, governance, and vesting.
• Develop abstractions that scale across all crypto-networks.
• Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues.
• Contribute with and review code across the entire stack and engineering organization.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• Find the right balance between progress (shipping quickly) and perfection (measuring twice).
• Foster an efficient, deterministic testing culture, minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.
• Ship code that will impact the global economy.

Organizational Knowledge

• Influence architecture and product roadmap.
• Help scale the team.

Communication and Influence

• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.

Who You Are

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have real-world experience building complex distributed systems, with a preference for Go (though languages can be learned).
• Enjoy building resilient services capable of handling varying workloads without manual intervention.
• Genuinely care about code quality and robust test infrastructure.
• Are comfortable diving deep into the stack and open-source projects to root cause bugs.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech."
• Possess strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (formal CS degree not required).
• Self-describe as creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hard-working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with applied cryptography.
• A mindset where "crypto" primarily means cryptography.
• A passion for reading blockchain protocol white papers and staying updated on cryptoasset innovations.
• A background in the finance industry.

Our Culture at Anchorage Digital

The Anchorage Village, our team, unites experts from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to empower institutions in the digital asset ecosystem. With over 600 diverse members, we are committed to building the future of finance. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, supported, and connected.

Key Skills/Competency

• Blockchain Integration
• Distributed Systems
• Go Programming
• Cryptoasset Research
• Scalable Architectures
• Protocol Development
• Code Quality
• Security Infrastructure
• Algorithms & Data Structures
• Cross-functional Collaboration