Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Integrations (Backend Engineer), Lisboa Lisboa

Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Integrations (Backend Engineer), Lisboa
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Integrations (Backend Engineer), Lisboa

Client:

Anchorage Digital

Location:

Lisboa, Portugal

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Description:

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

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.

As a member of the Protocols team, you will be at the forefront of new cryptoasset support. There will always be a need to learn new blockchains, technologies, and innovations, and integrate them into Anchorage Digital's ecosystem. Developing a scalable, reproducible, and reliable layer for existing and upcoming business lines is critical. We expect you to help the team grow as a whole, from your technical expertise and architecting skills to mentoring.

Technical Skills:

• Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital’s platform.
• Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc.
• Develop abstractions that scale across all
  - networks.
• Support assets through upgrades and monitor for
  - 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 (i. e. , shipping quickly) and perfection (i. e. , measuring twice).
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and Sec
  Ops innovation.
• Ship code that will impact the global economy.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
• Help scale the team.

Communication and Influence:

• Collaborate
  - functionally with everyone.

You may be a fit for this role, if you:

• Have
  - world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• Prioritize
  - user experience and business value over “cool tech. ”
• Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i. e. , concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.
• Self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious,
  - oriented,
  - working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical,
  - oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have experience with applied cryptography.
• 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.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.