Senior Software Engineer, Kraken.tech

• We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about code, curious, and eager to learn
• We’re looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful
• Your level will be Senior Software Engineer or above and we expect you to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):
• Scala, using an effect system like Cats Effect
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust, fault-tolerant and observable software
• Apache Kafka and event based architecture
• Postgres or other relational databases
• Kubernetes
• Python

Desirable

• All technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 1500 people globally
• Our engineers work in ‘super teams’ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products
• This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers
• Teams are empowered to choose a way of working that works for them, often opting for a Kanban-like approach
• Notion and Asana are then used to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Datadog, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production
• Your main focus will be to continue building Kraken’s Market Gateway offering which will allow clients to communicate with other businesses using regulated message formats and protocols
• Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors
• Some of our coding conventions are open-source
• Kraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills
• As a backend developer, you will be working on internal services that communicate with other internal services via HTTP
• When communicating with other companies, you’ll be implementing whatever their specification needs, which to date has included technologies like SOAP, AS4, email, JSON over HTTP, XML over HTTP, and SFTP. This list is not exhaustive
• Our services are written in Python and Scala
• Our Scala code uses the Typelevel ecosystem extensively. Our Python code uses FastAPI and Pydantic extensively
• We use open source technologies to underpin our backend services, things like Apache Kafka, Postgres, nginx, and Kubernetes
• Our infrastructure is expressed as code using OpenTofu (the FOSS fork of Terraform)
• You’ll be working alongside other talented people in the tech department. You’ll solve problems with technology to make us, and the industry, smarter and better for customers
• You and the Market Gateway team will be continuing to build a Market Gateway product for global clients and territories
• You will be involved in designing and developing new features for the Market Gateway
• You will be interacting with members of other teams that use the Market Gateway to solve problems that they are having
• You will be keeping the lights on; Responding to incidents, triaging bugs, coding up fixes and deploying and monitoring the product continuously
• You will be working closely with the Market Gateway Tech Lead and Product manager
• You will be writing, responding, and implementing tech proposals
• You will be reading and writing documentation for Market Gateway