Engineering Manager, Self-Custody

Crypto Pro Network; San Francisco, New York, Sioux Falls (CA, NY, SD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Anchorage Digital is looking for an Engineering Manager in San Francisco, California. In this role, you will drive the growth of the engineering team, mentor engineers, and ensure high-performance standards. You'll work cross-functionally to align engineering efforts with product goals, while also influencing hiring and team growth.

The position requires 8+ years of experience in software engineering and 3+ years in leadership, especially in blockchain. Join a cutting-edge crypto platform dedicated to institutional digital assets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical experience as a full-time software engineer.
• 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager.
• Prior experience managing engineering teams within the blockchain space.

Responsibilities

• Drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization.
• Mentor and collaborate with team members.
• Lead a team of Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution.

Skills

Technical experience as a full-time software engineer

Leadership experience as a formal people manager

Blockchain management experience

Distributed team leadership

Technical programming interviews

Applied cryptography

Tools

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Solidity

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. 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. The mission of an Engineering Manager is to drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization. As an Engineering Manager, you are expected to help with hiring high‑caliber Engineers to support the growth of the team, mentor and collaborate with team members to work toward their career goals, and drive the processes that can sustain a high‑performance engineering team. The Porto team is responsible for the entire self‑custody experience, including the management and transferring of digital assets, staking assets, interacting with on‑chain smart contracts, and more. We are an end‑to‑end team comprising backend, frontend, and iOS engineers which allows us to truly own the product.

Technical Skills

• 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.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• 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.

Organizational Knowledge

• 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.

Communication and Influence

• 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.

You may be a fit for this role if you

• 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.”

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 crypto‑asset 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 and zero‑knowledge tech.

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.