Senior Software Engineer – Backend – Growth Platform

Job Description

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Senior Software Engineer – Backend – Growth Platform

Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world‑class team with crypto conviction, united by a desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values, accelerating global adoption of crypto to enable financial freedom and inclusion. We operate as a fully remote company with employees in 70+ countries.

The Team

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 systems behind marketing funnels, sign‑up and KYC flows, and key engagement features that help users fund accounts and explore our products. Our products serve millions of users worldwide.

How We Work

• We give engineers ownership and trust them to ship high‑impact work with craftsmanship and accountability.
• We move quickly, experiment often, and learn fast from data and feedback.
• We work asynchronously across time zones, supporting each other with open communication and shared goals.

Why This Role Matters

You’ll help define the foundation on which Growth Engineering—and the company—build. Your tools and systems will accelerate development across multiple teams, ensuring reliability and scalability for products that serve millions globally. If you’re passionate about creating elegant, powerful developer experiences and using engineering craft to drive real business impact, you’ll thrive here.

Opportunities

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Growth Platform team, you’ll design and maintain 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 at scale.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 the following: TypeScript, 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/MariaDB, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong communication and documentation skills—making complex systems approachable to other developers.
• Ability to operate autonomously in a globally distributed, remote‑first environment.

Nice to Haves

• 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.

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

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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, welcoming candidates who are passionate about crypto even if they do not fully meet every listed requirement.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

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2026-02-27 08:35:26