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

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The role involves designing systems for financial reporting and statements, ensuring accuracy and reliability in delivering data to clients.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Shape architectural decisions collaboratively for the API and service delivery infrastructure as a founding engineer on the team
• Balance competing requirements of accuracy, performance, and scalability while delivering reporting products on tight client deadlines
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer
• Partner with Product teams to design APIs that enable self-service access to financial data
• Champion API design best practices and service reliability standards in partnership with teams across the engineering organization
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning and help build a supportive, collaborative engineering culture for the new team

Skills

• 5-7+ years building backend systems
• Experience collaborating on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale
• Service stewardship mindset
• Responsible for services end-to-end in production environments and understand what it takes to build reliable, observable, maintainable systems
• Proficient in Go or Python with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs
• Understand how to design interfaces that balance flexibility with performance
• Built backend services that interact with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar)
• Understand query optimization, connection pooling, and data consistency patterns
• Experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP)
• Experience with containerization, monitoring, and incident response
• Built GraphQL APIs and understand the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST for different use cases
• Worked in fintech, banking, or similar environments where data accuracy and auditability are critical requirements
• Worked closely with data engineering teams and understand modern data stack patterns (data warehouses, orchestration, CDC, etc.)
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system

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