Engineering Manager, Core Experience Porto

Engineering Manager, Core Experience
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Overview

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 industry’s 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 Linked
In.

About Anchorage Digital: 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. Asa 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 OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC, a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all
- owned 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.

Responsibilities

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
- on approach will ensure that you’re 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.

• Lead by example to cultivate trust, respect, and collaboration within the Core Experience team.
• Guide a small team with integrity, empathy, and clarity; communicate effectively and organize work; model
  - on ownership.
• Hold yourself accountable before expecting the same from your team; demonstrate humility and responsibility.
• Mentor and develop engineers, sharing knowledge to help others grow.

Qualifications

• Technical Skills: Leverage knowledge across multiple domains with growing expertise in a specific area; apply expertise and analytical skills to solve moderately complex problems across the team, with occasional
  - functional impact; define and refine team strategies, goals, frameworks, systems, architecture and/or processes to drive impact within their scope; refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, and create technology strategy for your team; focus on the health, happiness, and progression of every member on your team.
• Complexity and Impact of Work: Embrace experimenting and building a
  - autonomy team; leverage product instincts to raise the bar on output and collaborate with Product Managers and Product Designers to find better solutions; take ownership of complex challenges with some guidance when needed; help your team break down large initiatives into manageable tasks and priorities; navigate ambiguity and obstacles, seeking help when blocked; be accountable for delivering tactical business targets that impact your team; create an environment where knowledge is shared, define expectations and processes so the team can be autonomous; lead a team of engineers and be responsible for their quality of execution, timeliness, impact, and growth; mentor and provide coaching and feedback to elevate the team.
• Organizational Knowledge: Monitor industry trends and internal objectives to inform
  - setting and
  - making; be a culture carrier who contributes to hiring by referring, interviewing, mentoring, and participating in recruiting events or presenting externally; work closely with Product Managers to define investment in our products and ensure harmony between product plans, team bandwidth, and the technical landscape and growth plans.
• Communication and Influence: Approach remote collaboration as a feature; remove unnecessary meetings and jump on a call when needed; lead and communicate complex ideas and solutions with clarity and alignment; understand needs, motivations, and concerns of others and adapt communication for impact; work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring; 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,
  - performance 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
  - user experience and business value over “cool tech”; have developed “computer science fundamentals” (concurrency, algorithms, and data structures);
  - describe as creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.
• Bonus points if you have experience in effective regulatory compliance controls, authorization and authentication.