Member of Technical Staff, Transparency (Backend Engineer)
🇺🇸 United States | 🇨🇦 Canada | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 🇧🇷 Brazil | 🇦🇷 Argentina
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Member of Technical Staff, Transparency (Backend Engineer)
from 🇺🇸 United States | 🇨🇦 Canada | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 🇧🇷 Brazil | 🇦🇷 Argentina
With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policymandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrate a wide-ranging experience, use in-depth professional concepts, and leverage knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways.
- Design and build solutions that are easily maintainable and extensible for future functionality.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Drive work independently, lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects or processes, usually multi-person interdepartmental or cross-functional projects, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.
- Be 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, justifiy and recommend priorities.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
- Monitor the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect its capacity to succeed.
Communication and Influence:
- Mentor and guide others on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.
- Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems, network with other teams, and establish positive working relationships in other disciplines and domains.
You may be a fit for this role, if you:
- Have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
- Have a deep appreciation for code quality, test infrastructure, and extensible architecture.
- Prioritize end-user experience and business value over the latest tech.
- Developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
- Are able to work in a fast-paced agile software environment, and able to context switch between multiple simultaneous tasks.
- 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 you:
- Have experience implementing effective billing systems in the financial services industry.
- Have design and implementation experience with any of the following technologies:
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- Temporal
- Feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.


