Anchorage Digital · 8 hours ago
Engineering Manager, Self-Custody
Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The Engineering Manager will drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization, help with hiring and mentoring engineers, and manage the self-custody experience for digital assets.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Have 8+ years of technical experience as a full-time software engineer
Have 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager
Have prior experience managing engineering teams within the blockchain space
Have experience leading distributed teams, working cross-functionally across varying timezones
Have maintained a “player-coach” skillset and feel comfortable conducting live technical programming interviews
Genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the “why” and the “how,” not just the “what.”
Preferred
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
You have worked on a self custody wallet in the past
You have professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity
Familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech
Company
Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions.
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$487MKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsGICBlockchain Capital
2021-12-15Series D· $350M
2021-02-25Series C· $80M
2019-07-10Series B· $40M
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