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. 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. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
You will be implementing professional, high quality UIs that are used by institutional investors around the world on a daily basis to trade, invest and exchange cryptocurrency assets. The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.
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. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Anchorage Digital “Villagers” better measure impact and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Front End Software Engineering role. You will be coached, mentored and guided to grow your capabilities in 4 major areas:
Technical Skills:
Implement UI designs to create an intuitive user experience for managing cryptocurrency.Review other developer’s UI code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the front-end engineering discipline.Ability to implement automated UI tests to validate your features work as expected.Work across the front-end engineering discipline at Anchorage Digital to level up our UIs while building simple and reusable components.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.Ship code that will impact the global economy.
Organizational Knowledge:
Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.Review code across the entire front-end discipline while actively participating in product development.Help scale the team.
Communication and Influence
Work closely with Backend engineers propose/review GraphQL API changes.Collaborate with Product managers and designers to brainstorm and align on new design changes.Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
Have real world experience building web applications/UI from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.Have mastered at least one JavaScript framework (ex. React.Js, Angular.Js, Vue.Js, Ember, etc.)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, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if you:
Have production experience with web security.Have built a Chrome extension.Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.Have a background in the finance industry.Were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
