Senior Backend Engineer, Kraken
Breakout Prop
Cryptocurrency exchange
Be an early applicant
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- You have 7+ years of backend engineering experience (at least 3+ years in financial, metrics-driven, or high-performance systems)
- You are highly skilled with C#, ASP.NET Core, and PostgreSQL
- You’re comfortable deploying and scaling applications in AWS
- You’ve worked on API platforms, real-time data pipelines, or metrics systems
- You understand or are curious about trading systems and cryptocurrency markets
- You thrive on solving complex problems and building robust, scalable software
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer at Breakout, you’ll design and implement the core services that power our trading platform, with a special focus on metrics, data pipelines, and performance monitoring.
- You’ll architect solutions that ensure real-time visibility into trading activity, risk exposure, and financial performance, while also driving scalability and reliability across the stack
- You’ll collaborate closely with our CTO, engineering, operations, and data teams to ensure our systems deliver the speed, accuracy, and transparency needed in a live trading environment
- Designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency, and scalable back-end services and RESTful APIs using C# and ASP.NET Core
- Architecting solutions for real-time financial data processing, trade surveillance, and portfolio analysis
- Building pipelines and data models to power metrics dashboards, risk reporting, and performance analytics
- Managing and optimizing complex queries and schemas in PostgreSQL
- Integrating APIs with third-party systems to ensure data integrity and reliability
- Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks to meet demanding uptime and latency requirements
- Implementing security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption
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 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$500m
LATE VC
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $611.5m
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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