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About Anchorage Digital

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.

About the Role

The mission of an Engineering Manager at Anchorage Digital is to drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization. As an Engineering Manager, you are expected to help with hiring high-caliber Engineers to support the growth of the team, mentor and collaborate with team members to work toward their career goals, and drive the processes that can sustain a high-performance engineering team.

We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:

Growth Areas

Technical Skills:

• Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team.


• Showcase your expertise and judgement in tackling complex and ambiguous challenges, delivering scalable solutions.


• Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personal/professional progression of every member on your team.

• Lead a team of Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact, and growth.


• Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback which levels up all those on your team.

• Take ownership over the quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, processes, impact and personal and professional growth for a single team.


• Work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape and your plans for the growth and structure of the team.

• Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward.


• Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds, but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
• Demonstrated experience in building robust, high-performance complex distributed applications and you thrive on tackling challenging architectural problems and enjoy collaborating with talented engineers to deliver impactful solutions.
• Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech."
• Have developed "computer science fundamentals", i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (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.

Bonus Points

• Experience in effective regulatory compliance controls in the financial services industry.
• In your mind the word "crypto" stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• 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 have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity.
• You have familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.

Compensation

Annual base salary: $142,000—$238,000 USD.

Location

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, London, Portugal, United States (with in-person onboarding required)