Kraken

Own the technical direction and architecture of highly reliable KYC/KYB verification systems, including vendor integrations, fail-closed behavior, auditability, and security. Requires about eight years of production systems experience, deep Rust expertise, and strong distributed-systems and regulated-domain experience.

Files Suspicious Activity Reports with regulatory authorities, managing high-volume caseloads and meeting regulatory deadlines. Requires at least two years of financial-services experience, strong attention to detail, and knowledge of AML and crypto crime.

Leads operating rhythms, strategic initiatives, KPI reporting, and cross-functional execution for the Pro organization. Requires substantial experience in business operations, product operations, strategy, or consulting, plus strong project management, analytical, and communication skills.

Leads strategy and execution for multi-channel lifecycle and CRM programs serving consumer products, using campaign automation, segmentation, experimentation, and analytics to drive adoption, engagement, retention, and revenue. Requires 5+ years of CRM or lifecycle marketing experience and Braze expertise.

Validates and monitors AML/CFT transaction monitoring, customer risk assessment, screening, and AI models while assessing regulatory compliance, model risk, performance, and bias. Requires a quantitative bachelor's degree, 3+ years of relevant experience, and proficiency in Python, R, and SQL.

Advise Kraken’s UK business on cryptoasset, e-money, and payment-services regulation, licensing, and regulator relationships. Requires an England and Wales-qualified lawyer with at least six years of post-qualification financial-services regulatory experience and substantial FCA, cryptoasset, and payments expertise.

Conducts financial-crime investigations, prepares SARs/STRs, analyzes data, and manages fluctuating case volumes and compliance projects. Requires at least two years of anti-financial-crime experience, ideally in cryptocurrency, plus familiarity with FIU tools and automation.

Own the people workstream across Payward’s M&A lifecycle, leading HR diligence, deal mechanics, executive risk recommendations, and post-close integration. The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, strong compensation and equity modeling skills, cross-border deal expertise, and judgment in ambiguous, confidential transactions.

Leads confidential executive searches across Payward’s multi-brand platform, partnering with the Board, CEOs, and senior leadership on C-level, VP, Board, and Advisor mandates. Requires 6+ years of executive recruiting experience, strong negotiation and selection judgment, and San Francisco Bay Area location.

Build and scale consumer-facing mobile experiences for Krak using React Native and TypeScript. The role owns feature delivery end to end and requires at least three years of web or mobile development experience, with emphasis on performance, testing, and intuitive UX.

Leads a cross-functional frontend and backend engineering team building scalable consumer experiences across mobile and client platforms. Requires engineering leadership, deep React Native expertise, and experience with large-scale consumer or financial products.

Senior software engineer building high-performance Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto infrastructure. Requires 7+ years of experience, financial trading product expertise, distributed-systems knowledge, and strong security and debugging skills.

Leads margin modeling, market-risk oversight, stress testing, and regulatory governance for a derivatives clearing organization. Requires 10+ years of DCO risk experience, quantitative expertise, and the ability to engage with regulators and senior stakeholders.

Leads and grows a globally distributed engineering team responsible for high-performance trading backend services. The role requires technical management experience, hands-on expertise with concurrent or low-latency systems, and proficiency in Rust or C++.

Operates and evolves high-throughput MariaDB infrastructure, improving reliability, automation, security, observability, and disaster recovery. Requires 5+ years of production MariaDB/MySQL experience plus expertise in distributed databases, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and incident readiness.

Build and lead consumer-facing web and mobile experiences for Kraken using React, React Native, and TypeScript. The role requires 6+ years of software development experience, strong experimentation and testing practices, and expertise in modern frontend architecture.

Leads internal communications and change management for global People initiatives, organizational changes, and employee programs. The role requires 5+ years of experience, strong HR communications expertise, excellent writing and project management skills, and daily collaboration across US time zones.

Provides remote onboarding, verification, funding, and customer support for cryptocurrency clients, resolving questions and escalating compliance risks. Requires at least two years of customer service or business support experience, English fluency, and availability for rotating 24/7 shifts.

Leads Kraken’s global payments and banking fraud prevention strategy, including governance, detection operations, risk controls, regulatory coordination, and executive reporting. Requires 10+ years in banking, payments, or fraud risk management and experience scaling fraud teams and analyst operations.

Senior full-stack engineer on the Growth team, building scalable web and mobile systems for marketing, onboarding, KYC, funding, and user engagement. The role requires 5+ years of production engineering experience and proficiency with modern application and infrastructure technologies.

Build and lead secure, scalable frontend payment systems and transaction experiences for a global financial platform. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience, strong JavaScript/TypeScript and React expertise, and familiarity with modern frontend tooling and APIs.

Leads commercial legal strategy for Kraken’s high-impact product partnerships and complex technology transactions, partnering across product, engineering, sales, finance, and regulatory teams. Requires a legal degree, active license, and at least eight years of commercial legal experience.

Own the CRM and sales tooling roadmap for a B2B organization, translating sales needs into scalable product requirements and prioritizing work across stakeholders. The role requires 4+ years of product management experience, strong Salesforce fluency, and a deep understanding of B2B sales workflows.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Kraken’s onchain hybridisation products across Pro and Consumer. The role requires strong product management, on-chain experience, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder advocacy, and a consumer-first approach.

Builds and owns high-performance Rust services and libraries powering consumer trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The role requires 3+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems knowledge, asynchronous Rust expertise, and a security-first approach.

Leads global internal audits of financial crime, conduct, and market integrity controls across multiple jurisdictions. The role requires 8+ years in financial services audit or financial crime compliance, strong control-testing and stakeholder-management experience, and the ability to lead complex engagements.

Leads risk-based operational and integration audits across a globally regulated financial-services business, managing engagements, specialists, remediation, and stakeholder reporting. Requires 8+ years of internal audit, risk management, or regulatory examination experience, with strong generalist and multi-jurisdiction expertise.

Supports global M&A and strategic investment activity through due diligence, financial modeling, valuation analyses, screening memos, portfolio monitoring, and executive deal materials. Requires a bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant investment banking, investing, consulting, or startup experience.

Operates and scales shared telemetry infrastructure spanning metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and profiling. The role requires at least three years of production engineering experience, distributed-systems troubleshooting, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, incident response, and on-call participation.

Operates and scales Kraken’s core infrastructure platforms, with a focus on OpenStack, Ceph, Linux, distributed systems, and automation. The role requires 3+ years of infrastructure or software engineering experience and supports reliable compute and storage services across cloud and on-premises environments.

Leads product operations, launch readiness, licensing, and day-to-day governance for Payward Services’ regulated B2B2C platform. The role requires 8–12 years of consulting and in-house fintech, banking, or crypto operations experience, plus expertise in cross-functional execution and US financial regulation.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of fraud and account-takeover products for a global financial infrastructure platform. The role requires 4+ years of product management experience, fraud-process expertise, and strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, legal, risk, compliance, and vendors.

Senior regulatory counsel will advise on cryptoasset, e-money, and payment-services regulation across the UK and EU, support licensing and corporate workstreams, and manage regulator relationships. The role requires a qualified lawyer with 10+ years of post-qualification financial-services regulatory experience and expertise in MiCA or the UK Cryptoasset Regime.

Owns continuous audit readiness for the Data team by coordinating audit engagements, maintaining inventories and playbooks, governing audit-scoped datasets, and managing auditor access. The role requires 7+ years of program, audit coordination, or data governance experience and familiarity with SOC/SOX controls.

Own audit-readiness data inventories, governance processes, pipelines, dashboards, and validation controls for shared financial and operational datasets. The role requires 7+ years in data analytics or engineering, production pipeline experience, advanced SQL and Python, and familiarity with dbt, Airflow, and regulated environments.

Build and scale reliable, low-latency Rust services and libraries for Payward Services’ trading, payments, and digital asset infrastructure. The role requires 3+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency with Rust network or asynchronous programming.

Builds, secures, operates, and automates data-center and network infrastructure for a global cryptocurrency exchange. The role requires network engineering experience, hands-on physical infrastructure and firewall expertise, cloud networking knowledge, and an automation-focused mindset.

Build and ship AI agent orchestration workflows, integrations, and shared infrastructure that power automated growth across paid media, lifecycle, organic, CRO, incentives and more at Kraken. Requires 3+ years building agentic systems or automation with LLM APIs, strong API integration skills, and growth/marketing context.

Define and spec AI agent automation workflows for performance/paid growth channels at Kraken. Translate domain expertise in paid campaigns into logic, guardrails, and optimizations that engineers build into autonomous systems; QA outputs and iterate. Requires 4+ years running large-scale paid growth with systems thinking.

Senior brand designer responsible for evolving Payward’s multi-brand foundations, including guidelines, visual systems, templates, and tooling. The role requires strong systems thinking, brand identity expertise, motion experience, strategic communication, and mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

Senior Product Manager responsible for delivering new features and enhancements to Kraken's Consumer Trading platform for stocks, crypto, and cash. Requires 4+ years PM experience, retail trading knowledge, crypto/trading background, SQL analytics expertise, and hands-on AI prototyping skills.

Leads Payward Europe Solutions’ AML/CFT framework as PCF-52 and Money Laundering Reporting Officer, overseeing governance, risk assessment, monitoring, reporting, sanctions controls, and regulatory engagement across a high-growth crypto services business. Requires substantial regulated financial services compliance experience and strong knowledge of Irish and EU requirements.

Lead end-to-end M&A and venture deals for Kraken, including sourcing opportunities, financial modeling, due diligence coordination, and building stakeholder consensus in crypto/fintech. Requires 8+ years corporate development or IB experience, strong modeling/valuation skills, and crypto industry knowledge.

Builds reliable, low-latency Rust services and libraries for an enterprise platform supporting trading, payments, funding, and digital assets. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency with network or asynchronous Rust programming.

Lead M&A integrations across multiple acquisitions, driving full lifecycle execution from diligence through post-close value realization in a high-growth fintech environment.

Build and operate high-performance Rust infrastructure powering production AI agents, including inference, orchestration, execution, reliability, and observability systems. The role requires 5+ years of high-scale production engineering experience and expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and ML infrastructure.

Design and review security architectures for Kraken's crypto products, conduct assessments, and provide hands-on security consulting across blockchain, infrastructure, and AI projects.

Leads independent IT SOX controls testing, remediation validation, and Audit Committee reporting across complex crypto and financial technology environments. The role requires 8+ years of audit or SOX experience, hands-on ITGC expertise, and CISA and CPA certifications or active pursuit of the second certification.

This senior engineer will operate and optimize GPU and accelerator infrastructure for AI training, inference, evaluation, and experimentation. The role requires 5+ years of infrastructure experience, production GPU cluster operations, strong systems fundamentals, and expertise in serving, observability, reliability, and compute-cost optimization.

Leads a team of senior data platform engineers building real-time streaming infrastructure for Kraken's crypto exchange. Owns architecture for stream processing, data lakes, AI automation, and scalable data systems serving trading, compliance, and analytics teams. Requires 8+ years data/platform engineering and 3+ years management.