Engineering Manager, Wealth & Asset Management Solutions

At Anchorage Digital, we're crafting the world's most advanced digital asset platform, enabling institutions to engage with crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that empowers institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. As the home of Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions via Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

Funded by top institutions like Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with a Series D valuation exceeding $3 billion, we were founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California. We have offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

🎯 The Role

The mission of the Engineering Manager is to foster the healthy growth of the engineering organization. As an Engineering Manager, you will help hire high-caliber Engineers to support team growth, mentor and collaborate with team members to help them reach their career goals, and drive processes that sustain a high-performance engineering team.

⚙️ Job Responsibilities

• Refine the engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team.
• Showcase your expertise and judgment in tackling complex and ambiguous challenges, delivering scalable solutions.
• Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, and personal/professional progression of every member of 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 that levels up everyone on your team.
• Take ownership of 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.
• Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds but who builds it, taking ownership of the growth planning, recruiting, and performance management of a team of Engineers.

✅ What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
• Real-world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, but languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering and management skills more than any specific language or framework.
• Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period.
• 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.

✨ Nice to Have

• 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 professional experience with Go/Rust/TypeScript/Solidity.

🤝 About Anchorage Digital: Who We Are

The Anchorage Village, as 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. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

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. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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