Engineering Manager, Core Experience

extra parental leave - work from anywhere - fully flexible
Work set-up: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience managing and mentoring distributed engineering teams., Strong technical background with expertise in building complex applications., Excellent communication and leadership skills., Knowledge of software architecture, systems, and processes..

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead and mentor the Core Experience engineering team.
  • Define and refine team strategies, goals, and processes.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to develop solutions.
  • Ensure team delivery, quality, and growth while fostering a collaborative environment.

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Anchorage Digital Financial Services Scaleup https://www.anchorage.com
201 - 500 Employees
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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 industrys leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only 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. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.

As an Engineering Manager for the Core Experience team, you will be responsible for cultivating an environment where trust, respect, and collaboration thrive. You will lead by example, guiding a small team with integrity, empathy, and clarity. Your strong communication skills, ability to organize work effectively, and handson approach will ensure that youre never asking others to do what you wouldn’t do yourself. You will hold yourself accountable before expecting the same from your team, demonstrating humility and responsibility. A natural problem solver, you will also be a teacher and mentor, eager to share your knowledge and help others grow.

Technical Skills:
  • Leverage a strong knowledge across multiple domains, with growing expertise in a specific area.
  • Apply your expertise and analytical skills to solve moderately complex problems across your team, with occasional crossfunctional impact.
  • Define and refine team strategies, goals, frameworks, systems, architecture andor processes to drive impact within their scope.
  • Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team.
  • Focus on and prioritize the health, happiness, personalprofessional progression of every member on your team.

  • Complexity and Impact of Work:
  • Embrace experimenting and building a high autonomous team
  • Leverage your great product instincts, so you know what good looks like and always raise the bar on the output of the team. And collaborate with Product Managers and Product Designers to find better solutions.
  • Take ownership of complex challenges, selecting appropriate methods and approaches with some guidance when needed.
  • Help your team break down moderate to large initiatives into manageable tasks, assessing tradeoffs and priorities with occasional input from leadership.
  • Navigate ambiguity, roadblocks, and obstacles, looking for help when blocked.
  • Be accountable for delivering tactical business targets that impact your team.
  • Create an environment where you become less and less needed, by making sure that knowledge is shared across everyone, defining the right expectations and processes so the team can be autonomous and mitigating single points of failure.
  • 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:
  • Monitor industry trends and internal objectives to inform goalsetting and decisionmaking for themselves and their team.
  • Be a culture carrier who contributes to hiring efforts by submitting referrals, conducting interviews, mentoring new interviewers, and participating in recruiting events or presenting externally.
  • 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:
  • Approach remote collaboration as a feature, not a bug.
  • Be able to remove meetings when necessary and jump on a call when the moment asks.
  • Lead and communicate complex ideas and solutions, ensuring clarity and alignment within your team.
  • Understand the needs, motivations, and concerns of others and adapt communication for impact.
  • Work with other engineering managers, product management, peoplerecruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward.
  • Proactively build relationships outside the scope of your team.

  • You may be a fit for this role if you:
  • Have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
  • Have demonstrated experience in building robust, highperformance complex distributed applications and you thrive on tackling challenging architectural problems and enjoy collaborating with talented engineers to deliver impactful solutions
  • Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
  • Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
  • Prioritize enduser 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.

  • Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
  • You have experience in effective regulatory compliance controls, authorization and authentication
  • About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

    The Anchorage Village, what 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 OCCchartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all whollyowned 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. Please see our privacy policy notices here.
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    Experience

    Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
    Industry :
    Financial Services
    Spoken language(s):
    English
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    Other Skills

    • Mentorship
    • Team Leadership
    • Problem Solving
    • Communication
    • Virtual Collaboration
    • Accountability
    • Collaboration
    • Adaptability

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