Kraken is looking to design and implement core services for their crypto-native prop trading platform, Breakout, with a focus on metrics, data pipelines, and performance monitoring to ensure real-time visibility into trading activity, risk exposure, and financial performance, while driving scalability and reliability.
Requirements
- highly skilled with C, ASP.NET Core, and PostgreSQL
- comfortable deploying and scaling applications in AWS
- worked on API platforms, real-time data pipelines, or metrics systems
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency, and scalable back-end services and RESTful APIs using C and ASP.NET Core
- Architecting solutions for real-time financial data processing, trade surveillance, and portfolio analysis
- Building pipelines and data models to power metrics dashboards, risk reporting, and performance analytics
- Managing and optimizing complex queries and schemas in PostgreSQL
- Integrating APIs with third-party systems to ensure data integrity and reliability
- Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks to meet demanding uptime and latency requirements
- Implementing security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption
Other
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience (at least 3+ years in financial, metrics-driven, or high-performance systems)
- understand or are curious about trading systems and cryptocurrency markets
- thrive on solving complex problems and building robust, scalable software
- applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.
- We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
