Member of Technical Staff, Transparency, Billing & Revenue (Backend Engineer)

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrate a wide-ranging experience, use in-depth professional concepts, knowledge and insights to develop, apply and resolve complex problems across multiple axes in creative and effective ways.
• Be adept at designing and building 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, justify and recommend priorities.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself 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 your 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 products within Billing and Accounting spaces.
• 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.
• Were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

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