Senior Backend Engineer, Kraken
Solidity, Onchain
$127-203k
Plus equity and bonus
Cryptocurrency exchange
Be an early applicant
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$127-203k
Plus equity and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
- 5+ years of solidity familiarity and development experience
- 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 familiar solidity frameworks such as Foundry, OpenZeppelin, etc. 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 your tasks
What the job involves
- As a member of the Onchain team, you will have the chance to collaborate with highly skilled Rust Engineers, cryptographers, and Onchain experts from around the world
- The team has embarked on exploring how more protocols and decentralized applications can be integrated into Kraken
- By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute towards shaping the future of Kraken’s Onchain product strategy
- Collaborate with product managers to understand business needs
- Work jointly with frontend and 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 engineer efficient and secure solidity contracts
- 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
Our take
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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