Member of Technical Staff, Trading (Derivatives)

Crypto Pro Network; San Francisco, New York, Sioux Falls (CA, NY, SD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GraphQL experience

gRPC experience

Job summary

Anchorage Digital is seeking engineers to implement front and back-office trading systems used by institutional investors globally to trade and exchange cryptocurrency assets. You will work on brokerage engineering with a focus on robust, secure and scalable design.

We value hands-on experience in Go, modern software practices (TDD/SOLID), and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams. Knowledge of OEMS, FIX, market data and low-latency architectures is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Go experience.
• Experience with automated unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Cloud development experience and database interaction (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Git experience and collaboration in a team environment.
• Knowledge of financial trading systems and related domains (OEMS, FIX, low latency, trading back office).
• Real-world experience building financial trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in planning, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems.
• Influence technical direction of Brokerage team and improve processes.
• Lead or contribute to complex tasks with clear estimation and prioritization.
• Review code to ensure quality and share knowledge across the Brokerage team.
• Instrument systems with metrics and instrumentation for reliability and observability.

Skills

Go

Testing

Cloud development

Databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL)

Git

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

You will be implementing front office and back office trading systems 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.

Technical Skills:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems
• Use your knowledge of the trading system domain to influence the technical direction of the Brokerage team. Advocate for improved processes or technology when appropriate.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions
• Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Brokerage engineering team
• Drive iterative system improvement by implementing robust instrumentation and metric collection.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared across the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Brokerage team and other teams at Anchorage Digital

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within your area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of the Brokerage team and how your work relates to these
• Understands others' context or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and adjusts communication to ensure maximum impact and effectiveness

You may be a fit for this role, if:

• Have 3+ years of professional experience with Go.
• Have experience with modern software development practices, including automated unit, integration and end to end testing, cloud development, database design and interaction using MySQL or PostgreSQL and experience using Git.
• Have knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of several (not all) of the following topics: Order Execution Management Systems (OEMS), FIX protocol, market data, low latency application architectures and messaging, matching engines, FX trading, OTC, derivatives, position/risk management, cryptocurrency trading, trading back office systems.
• Have real world experience building financial trading systems.
• Are passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, SOLID, refactoring, etc).
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience
• Have gRPC API design and implementation experience
• Have a background in the finance industry
• Have experience working with digital asset (i.e. cryptocurrency) trading

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. 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.