Member of Technical Staff (Reporting & Statements, Backend Engineer)

Join Anchorage Digital, a regulated crypto platform that provides integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions for institutions. As a founding engineer on the Reporting & Statements team, you will design and implement systems that power financial reports and statements, ensuring accuracy and consistency. You will collaborate closely with data engineers and product teams, championing API design best practices and contributing to technical roadmap planning. Enjoy benefits such as 100% health coverage, meaningful equity, flexible time-off, and the ability to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal.

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data to internal product teams and external clients.
• Build service integration layer between backend services and the data platform, ensuring reliable data flow and error handling.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer.
• Service stewardship mindset: You've been responsible for services end-to-end in production environments and understand what it takes to build reliable, observable, maintainable systems
• 5-7+ years building backend systems: You have experience collaborating on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale
• Data-intensive systems: You've built backend services that interact with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar) and understand query optimization, connection pooling, and data consistency patterns
• API design experience: You're proficient in Go or Python with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, and you understand how to design interfaces that balance flexibility with performance
• Cloud-native development: You have experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP), including containerization, monitoring, and incident response
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
• Data platform collaboration: You've worked closely with data engineering teams and understand modern data stack patterns (data warehouses, orchestration, CDC, etc.)
• Financial domain knowledge: You've worked in fintech, banking, or similar environments where data accuracy and auditability are critical requirements
• GraphQL experience: You've built GraphQL APIs and understand the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST for different use cases