Anchorage Digital - Tech Lead, Core Experience

• Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire services. • Review code across the engineering organization while actively participating in product development. • Find simple solutions to complex software problems. • Efficiently implement high quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise and well tested). • Production support. Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot, mitigate and learn from production incidents to reduce their incidence. • Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it. • Complexity and Impact of Work: • Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces. • Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice). • Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on conrolling tech debt. • Articulate effectively different options considered in projects, analyzing trade-offs and recommending priorities. • Help define the technical strategy of the team. • Organizational Knowledge: • Ensures that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure. • Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital. • Help scale the team. • Communication and Influence: • Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these. • Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise. • Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table. • You may be a fit for this role, if you: • Have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services. • Have designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs. • Have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services. • Are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features. • Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time. • Have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure. • Have experience performing on-call support for production systems. • Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.” • Developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required). • Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. • Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others. • You enjoy working closely with the product team to ship the best solution in a reasonable amount of time. • Although not a requirement, bonus points if you: • Have professional experience with C++ or Go, Kubernetes, GraphQL API design and implementation and/or gRPC API design and implementation. • Have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys). • Have a background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries. • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system :)