Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Platform

Overview

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. 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.

Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

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.

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  products serve millions of users globally.

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 ’ll contribute to 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.

• 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:
  Type Script, 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/Maria
  
  DB, Redis, or Git Lab 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.

• 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.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. Assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Assessment results are considered alongside other information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.

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 and encourage you to apply for roles even if you don t fully meet every listed requirement, especially if you are passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.

Candidate privacy and security information will be provided as part of the application process.