Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Growth Platform

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 Desktop Wallet and Kraken Futures .

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

The Growth Engineering team builds the experiences that connect people to our ecosystem for the first time — and keeps them coming back. We design and ship the systems behind our marketing funnels signup and KYC flows and the key engagement features that help new users fund their accounts and explore our products. It’s a team with direct influence on company growth global reach and user engagement at scale. Our products serve millions of users globally.

How We Work

• We give engineers ownership and trust them to ship high-impact work with craftsmanship and accountability.

• We move quickly experiment often and learn fast from data and feedback.

• We work asynchronously across time zones supporting each other with open communication and shared goals.

Why This Role Matters

You’ll help define the foundation on which Growth Engineering — and the company — build. Your tools and systems will accelerate development across multiple teams ensuring reliability and scalability for products that serve millions globally. If you’re passionate about creating elegant powerful developer experiences and using engineering craft to drive real business impact you’ll thrive here.

The opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Growth Platform team you’ll design and maintain the internal tooling services and developer platforms that empower teams across Growth — and beyond — to move faster and ship more reliably. You’ll build SDKs CLIs APIs and backend systems that make it easy for engineers to integrate growth features and infrastructure safely consistently and at scale. This role is for engineers who see developer experience reliability and scalability as multipliers for business impact.

• 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.

• Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering excellence automation and maintainability.

Skills you should HODL

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including building and maintaining backend systems or developer-facing tools.

• Proficiency in building scalable applications 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.

• Strong communication and documentation skills — you can make complex systems approachable to other developers.

• Nice to have: familiarity with React or React Native especially when building front-end SDKs or shared components.

• Ability to operate autonomously in a globally distributed remote-first environment.

Nice to haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms or frameworks used across multiple teams.

• Background in observability reliability engineering or service instrumentation.

• Experience driving technical design across large codebases or multi-team environments.

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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