Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack - Onchain - Remote Eligible

Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you'll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken's focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Join our Onchain team and have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing transformation of the digital assets industry at Kraken. Our team plays a crucial role in identifying problems in the industry and delivering novel solutions.

As a member of the Onchain team, you will have the chance to collaborate with highly skilled Rust Engineers, cryptographers, and Onchain experts from around the world. We are enthusiastic about open source, Layer 2 technologies, zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and continuously strive to explore the potential of on-chain scaling solutions. Our collaborative work environment allows us to stay ahead in the ever-changing crypto landscape.

The team has embarked on exploring how more protocols and decentralized applications can be integrated into Kraken. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute towards shaping the future of Kraken's Onchain product strategy.

The opportunity

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to understand business needs
• Work jointly with devOps all along the software development lifecycle from the writeup of technical specifications in the form of RFCs, to feature development and testing.
• Develop and maintain services that power onchain experiences.
• Integrate 3rd party APIs and multiple blockchain networks into our products.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability scalable applications
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Create optimized database schemas
• Mentoring of engineers and contribution to hiring

Skills you should HODL

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
• Experience working with blockchain technology and DeFi
• Experience building backend services with Node.js, Typescript
• Experience building and maintaining high volume production quality applications using React or React Native, with good knowledge of state management and client side systems design
• Experience working with GraphQL, SQL, RESTful APIs and WebSockets
• Good understanding of best practices with version control and continuous integration.
• Solid understanding of engineering and design principles behind distributed and scalable applications
• Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Clear passion for both Software Engineering and Crypto
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of tasks.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that's based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.