Member of Technical Staff, Protocols

The role

This person will build and maintain back-end protocol features for Anchorage Digital's crypto platform. The work covers integrating new blockchains and digital assets, building staking and governance features, and developing infrastructure that works across crypto networks.

What you will do

• Research new cryptoassets and integrate them into the platform
• Implement participatory features such as staking, governance and vesting
• Develop infrastructure that scales across all crypto networks
• Support assets through network upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues
• Contribute with and review code across the entire stack
• Influence architecture and the product roadmap
• Collaborate cross-functionally and help scale the team
• Foster an efficient testing culture with minimal tech debt

Required qualifications

• Real-world experience building complex distributed systems
• Experience building services from scratch and supporting them over time
• Care about code quality and test infrastructure
• Computer science fundamentals: concurrency, algorithms and data structures
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value

Nice to have

• Experience with applied cryptography
• Comfort diving into open source projects to root cause bugs
• Background in the finance industry
• Reads blockchain protocol white papers and follows cryptoasset innovations

Before you apply

• A formal CS degree is not required
• Mandatory in-person onboarding for all new hires, with no exceptions

About the company

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that lets institutions participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance and settlement. It holds a federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S. and has a team of more than 600.