Offer summary

Qualifications:

Pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, graduating December 2024/Summer 2025., Experience in building distributed systems, preferably with knowledge of Go programming language., Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals such as concurrency, algorithms, and data structures., Demonstrated curiosity and eagerness to learn about technologies and best practices in software engineering..

Key responsabilities:

Design and develop code according to specifications and progress it through the software development life-cycle.

Participate in team projects and contribute to software design under supervision.

Attend software life-cycle ceremonies and engage in discussions related to requirements, design, maintenance, and support.

Collaborate with team members to solve problems and contribute to team activities.

Job description

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 LinkedIn.

Launch your career in crypto with Anchorage Labs! Join our dynamic internship program and dive into the heart of the digital asset banking revolution.

You will work with a specific engineering team, designing and developing code to specs and progressing that code through the software development life-cycle into production. You will be responsible for multiple team projects through the 9-month program that’s been planned around your skill set. This program will begin September 2025. You will be directly integrated into the team, attending large scale software life-cycle ceremonies and participating in requirements, design, maintenance and support discussions outside of your projects. You will also have a mentor assigned who can guide you as you learn about the industry and answer any immediate questions.

The goals of this program are:

Learn - spend time learning with engineering experts solving real-world problems in a large-scale software environment

Innovate - explore your own designs and solutions to problems in a rapidly changing industry

Experience - participate in a rapidly changing environment solving industry-leading problems

Grow - expand your skill set to better prepare you for your future career after graduation, whether or not that’s at Anchorage Digital

Technical Skills:

Proactively demonstrates curiosity in learning about Anchorage’s technologies from managers, mentors, technical leads, and/or peers (e.g. peer reviews, code quality).

Writes, reviews, tests, and documents code according to Anchorage engineering and team standards and practices.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

Operates autonomously, yet also demonstrates the ability to ask for help as appropriate and apply it.

Can troubleshoot, debug, fix basic issues, and apply basic problem solving techniques.

Contributes to software design for their assigned intern project under direct supervision.

Organizational Knowledge:

Is able to explain what Anchorage does and can summarize and explain the top company objectives.

Understands how their own work relates to the work of a broader team/function.

Communication and Influence

Contributes to team activities and collaborates with the team to solve problems.

Listens and speaks properly with other team members and shares standard information with colleagues, manager and other team managers or leads.

Builds stable working relationships internally.

You may be a fit for this role if:

You are pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science (or similar degree) and will be graduating December 2024/Summer 2025.

You have experience building distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework.

You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over time.

You have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure.

You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”

You have baseline “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.

You’re comfortable navigating environments that are constantly changing, such as a high growth startup.

You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

You have experience with Blockchain technology and digital assets

You are the student your classmates go to when they don’t understand why their code doesn’t work

You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system!

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

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. As a 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 wholly-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.

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