[Hiring] Member of Technical Staff, Automation Engineer @Anchorage Digital

Role Description

You will be a part of our Automation Engineering team, dedicated to dramatically improving our operational efficiency. This means you'll be on the front lines, building capabilities into existing back-office systems to reduce manual work and consolidate disparate systems. Your role demands a highly adaptable and comprehensive technical skillset, as you'll not only create net-new backend services and capabilities but also integrate with and build upon a wide range of existing backend and frontend services. Your impact will be significant as you collaborate directly with our Global Operations teams to:

• Identify critical pain points
• Prioritize initiatives
• Translate operational needs into technical requirements
• Design, develop, and deploy solutions that empower our entire organization

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Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and enhancing complex internal software systems
• Experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services
• Passionate about building automated tests alongside your features
• Real world experience building complex distributed systems
• Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time
• Genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech”
• Developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required)
• Self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious

Requirements

• Rapidly understand and navigate diverse existing codebases across various internal systems
• Author robust, high-quality, and well-tested solutions that span multiple backend and frontend services
• Contribute to secure, resilient internal infrastructure from the ground up, and ensure its ongoing health
• Actively participate in code reviews for changes impacting multiple teams, fostering an efficient, deterministic testing culture with an emphasis on minimizing technical debt across our internal systems
• Solve complex software design problems that optimize internal operations
• Break down large, cross-functional internal projects into manageable tasks, accurately estimating multi-person efforts
• Ship code and solutions that directly improve the daily efficiency and productivity of global operations teams
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice) in an evolving internal environment
• Jump between and contribute to a wide array of internal systems and operational workflows supporting different business functions
• Collaborate closely and cross-functionally with Global Operations and other internal stakeholders to understand critical needs and gain alignment on solutions
• Help scale the team and its impact across the organization
• Influence the technical direction and roadmap for internal systems, ensuring our technology directly addresses operational needs
• Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing expertise on navigating diverse internal codebases and understanding the strategic operational goals

Benefits

• Remote friendly, global team
• Option of working in-office in New York City, Sioux Falls, Porto, Lisbon, and Singapore
• Encouragement and sponsorship of quarterly in-person collaboration days

Company Description

Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service.