Kraken is looking to accelerate the global adoption of crypto and achieve financial freedom and inclusion. The Growth Engineering team needs to build experiences that connect people to their ecosystem and keep them engaged, directly influencing company growth, global reach, and user engagement at scale. This role will define the foundation for Growth Engineering and the company by building tools and systems that accelerate development, ensuring reliability and scalability for products serving millions globally.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and maintaining backend systems or developer-facing tools.
- Proficiency in building scalable s and developer tooling using one of the following: TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or Ruby.
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, or internal services consumed by other engineering teams.
- Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and secure software design.
- Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
- Nice to have: familiarity with React or React Native, especially when building front-end SDKs or shared components.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or frameworks used across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain SDKs, CLIs, APIs, and shared services that enable rapid experimentation and delivery across Growth engineering teams.
- Develop internal tools and frameworks that improve engineering workflows, automation, and deployment efficiency.
- Design and evolve scalable backend systems and databases, ensuring performance, security, and resilience.
- Write clear, maintainable technical documentation and onboarding materials for engineers using platform tools.
- Partner with other engineers to understand pain points and translate them into intuitive, reliable internal systems.
- Own reliability, observability, and performance improvements across core services.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams across the company to align on standards, tooling, and best practices.
Other
- Ability to operate autonomously in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.
- Strong communication and documentation skills — you can make complex systems approachable to other developers.
- Background in observability, reliability engineering, or service instrumentation.
- Experience driving technical design across large codebases or multi-team environments.
- The compensation package of the successful candidate is based on various factors such as their skillset, experience, and job scope.
