Senior Backend Engineer - Reporting & Statements at Anchorage Digital

About the Role

Join Anchorage Digital as a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Reporting & Statements. This remote role offers you the chance to design systems that power financial reports and statements for our clients. As a member of our technical staff, you will play a crucial role in building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions participating in crypto.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data to internal product teams and external clients.
• Build a 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.

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of experience building backend systems, with a focus on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale.
• Experience in service stewardship, responsible for services end-to-end in production environments.
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with data-intensive systems, interacting with databases like PostgreSQL or BigQuery.
• Familiarity with cloud-native development, deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP).

Nice to Have

• Experience building GraphQL APIs and understanding the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST.
• Financial domain knowledge from working in fintech, banking, or similar environments.
• Collaboration with data engineering teams and understanding modern data stack patterns.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $140,000 to $180,000 annually.
• Remote work flexibility with options for in-office collaboration in various locations.
• Quarterly in-person collaboration days to deepen team connections.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development in a supportive environment.
• A chance to be part of a pioneering team in the crypto space.