Senior Software Engineer - Frontend - Onchain

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.

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!

The team

Join a small, talented team of engineers building high-quality enhancements and bringing new onchain utility to Kraken. In this role, you’ll take significant ownership of technical decisions, collaborate closely with product, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver exciting new opportunities.

The opportunity

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to understand business needs
• Work jointly with devOps all along the software development lifecycle from the writeup of technical specifications in the form of RFCs, to feature development and testing.
• Develop and maintain services that power onchain experiences.
• Integrate 3rd party APIs and multiple blockchain networks into our products.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability scalable applications
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Create optimized database schemas
• Mentoring of engineers and contribution to hiring

Skills You Should HODL

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
• Experience working with blockchain technology and DeFi
• Experience building backend services with Node.js, Typescript
• Experience building and maintaining high volume production quality applications using React or React Native, with good knowledge of state management and client side systems design
• Experience working with GraphQL, SQL, RESTful APIs and WebSockets
• Good understanding of best practices with version control and continuous integration.
• Solid understanding of engineering and design principles behind distributed and scalable applications
• Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Clear passion for both Software Engineering and Crypto
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of tasks.

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

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 knowledgeable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.