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Frontend Engineer

Anchorage

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Job Description

You may be a fit for this role if:

  • You have real world experience building web applications and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.

  • You have mastered at least one JavaScript framework (ex. React.JsAngular.JsVue.Js, Ember, etc.)

  • You have strong communication skills, collaborator, and relationship builder.

  • You have experience leading and owning projects from beginning to end.

  • You have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure. 

  • You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”

  • You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required). 

  • You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, conscientious

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

  • You have a familiarity and love of GraphQL APIs and end-to-end type systems.

  • You enjoy working with others to solve not just technical, but people, design, and product challenges.

  • 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 a background in the finance industry.

  • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

Tech stack: 

  • Backend Tech: Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL.

  • Frontend Tech: ReactJS, Flow, TypeScript, CSS Modules, Jest, and Cypress.

  • Mobile Tech:  Swift, RxSwift, CocoaPods, and Secure Enclave.

  • Engineering Methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, container orchestration, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code.

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain intuitive web experiences for our clients and internal operations team.

  • Work closely with engineering leadership and product management to ensure we’re building awesome, feature-rich, scalable, and secure products.

  • Actively participate in product development: shipping new features, improving existing flows, and taking an active role in code reviews for the team.

  • Help develop the Frontend team with a strong emphasis on mentorship, coaching, and maintaining high technical standards.

  • Collaborate with the design team to build a reusable component library and stay consistent with our brand guidelines.

  • Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice). 

  • Foster an efficient and deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.

  • Help shepherd and iterate on our engineering culture and values.

  • Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation

About Anchorage
https://anchorage.com/

Anchorage is the premier digital asset platform for institutions. Founded in 2017 to meet the growing need for institutional custody that lets investors safely hold and use crypto, Anchorage has grown into a full-service financial platform and infrastructure provider for the digital asset space. Co-founders Diogo Mónica and Nathan McCauley have worked on the forefront of security engineering for more than a decade. As early Square employees, they engineered software that now secures more than 100 billion dollars in transactions annually. At Docker, they helped secure the core infrastructure used in top banks, governments, and the world’s three largest cloud providers. Today, they are leading a team of the best and brightest minds in security, finance, and distributed systems to build the future of financial services and infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Porto, Portugal and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the Anchorage team is constantly growing. If you’re excited by the prospect of helping to build the future of finance, please see our Careers page.

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