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.

What makes us different?

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.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Kraken NFT, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

Kraken is looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead and build out our Custody Team. Join our Custody 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 leader of the Custody team, you will have the chance to lead and collaborate with highly skilled Rust Engineers, cryptographers, hardware aficionados, and on-chain experts from around the world. We are enthusiastic about the highest security custody environments and efficiency of signing with the major cryptographic curves. Our collaborative work environment allows us to stay ahead in the ever-changing crypto landscape. 

We are looking for a strong communicator and team-player, who is able to identify business problems, own Kraken’s Institutional strategy, and set the agenda to maximize business impact from the team. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader that’s passionate about crypto, software engineering. You understand the tech and what’s going on at ground level and facilitate your team into making great decisions, but you’re careful not to let your own opinions outweigh those of others, and strike a healthy balance between trusting the way your team does things currently and challenging them to strive for something better. You find ways to make your team better and deliver: expedite a process, get rid of a blocker, get repetitive work off team members by handling it and/or automating it, and more.

The opportunity

• Facilitating and contributing to deliverables in a team that is dedicated to integrations for institutional custody

• Help scale the team by hiring and growing passionate engineers committed to excellence

• Lead by example and nurture talent in an integration focused team, focusing on the growth of developers and ensuring their workload leaves them both challenged and fulfilled

• Help identify, analyze, and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes and codebases

• Design and implement  low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems

• Spend about 80% of your time managing risks across different domains who have distinct  domain experts

• Manage stakeholder expectations in Security, Compliance, Product, Finance, Design, and Client Experience, to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements

• Maintain a security-first mindset by staying informed of the latest trends in blockchain technologies, and Web3 in general

• Own, develop and maintain existing integrations

Skills you should HODL

• Experience as a backend developer and leading teams of 7+ engineers writing code exclusively in Rust

• Proficiency in Rust

• Leans heavy into process, optimization and always has security at the forefront of decision making

• Strong proficiency with basic cryptographic concepts

• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tooling

• Deep knowledge of software development and delivery best practices; you can identify bottlenecks and/or obstacles holding back your team and find ways to help them move faster

• Experience driving solutions to key business problems, especially navigating and resolving ambiguity

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

• Understanding accessibility and security compliance 

• Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

• Strong written skills in English is required

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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note, 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.

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. 

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