Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Join our engineering team and play a pivotal role in upholding the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our robust platform team. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will collaborate closely with diverse cross-functional teams to conceive, execute, and oversee the foundational infrastructure systems that empower our array of applications and services.
As a key member of our SRE team, you will guarantee the availability, high performance, scalability and cost efficiency of our critical services and platforms. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who are passionate about automation, cloud technologies, distributed systems, monitoring, logging and maintaining highly available financial platforms.
You will work closely with Software Engineers, Security Engineers, and Platform teams to improve operational excellence and support mission-critical financial services. You will participate in system monitoring, incident response, automation initiatives, and infrastructure improvements while learning best practices for operating large-scale, highly regulated environments.
Implement data infrastructure solutions (self service) that support the needs of dozens of business units and hundreds of engineers
Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to design, provision, and manage both on-premises and cloud (AWS) infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform
Develop and maintain automation scripts using bash/shell scripting and to automate operational tasks and deployments.
Enhance and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate consistent software deployments across the data infrastructure.
Implement robust data monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect anomalies and performance issues.
Manage and implement role-based access control (RBAC) and permissions for a multitude of user groups and machine workflows across different environments
Utilize Kubernetes and Nomad to manage containerized applications within the data infrastructure, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration.
Implement effective incident response procedures and participate in on-call rotations.
Collaborate with data analysts, engineers, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and implement appropriate solutions.
Document architecture, processes, and best practices to enable knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Proven experience of 1+ year of working as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer or similar roles
Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value
Solid understanding of bash/shell scripting and proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python, Golang or Rust).
Experience with containerization tools such as Docker or Podman
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex systems.
Experience managing and operating data systems such as Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, MariaDB, AirFlow, Debezium, ScyllaDB, TiDB, Hashicorp Vault
Experience managing self-hosted and SaaS platforms such as Splunk, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Cloudflare, Ingresses, Gitlab
Experience running Kubernetes as a Platform offering for engineering teams
Kubernetes AWS or on-premises experience managing workloads at scale
Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis
Familiarity with CI/CD deployment pipelines and related tools.
Working experience in managing AWS infrastructure components
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nJoin our engineering team and play a pivotal role in upholding the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our robust platform team. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will collaborate closely with diverse cross-functional teams to conceive, execute, and oversee the foundational infrastructure systems that empower our array of applications and services.\n\nAs a key member of our SRE team, you will guarantee the availability, high performance, scalability and cost efficiency of our critical services and platforms. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who are passionate about automation, cloud technologies, distributed systems, monitoring, logging and maintaining highly available financial platforms.\n\nYou will work closely with Software Engineers, Security Engineers, and Platform teams to improve operational excellence and support mission-critical financial services. You will participate in system monitoring, incident response, automation initiatives, and infrastructure improvements while learning best practices for operating large-scale, highly regulated environments.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Implement data infrastructure solutions (self service) that support the needs of dozens of business units and hundreds of engineers\n\n - Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to design, provision, and manage both on-premises and cloud (AWS) infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform\n\n - Develop and maintain automation scripts using bash/shell scripting and to automate operational tasks and deployments.\n\n - Enhance and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate consistent software deployments across the data infrastructure.\n\n - Implement robust data monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect anomalies and performance issues.\n\n - Manage and implement role-based access control (RBAC) and permissions for a multitude of user groups and machine workflows across different environments\n\n - Utilize Kubernetes and Nomad to manage containerized applications within the data infrastructure, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration.\n\n - Implement effective incident response procedures and participate in on-call rotations.\n\n - Collaborate with data analysts, engineers, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and implement appropriate solutions.\n\n - Document architecture, processes, and best practices to enable knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).\n\n - Proven experience of 1+ year of working as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer or similar roles\n\n - Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value\n\n - Solid understanding of bash/shell scripting and proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python, Golang or Rust).\n\n - Experience with containerization tools such as Docker or Podman\n\n - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex systems.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience managing and operating data systems such as Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, MariaDB, AirFlow, Debezium, ScyllaDB, TiDB, Hashicorp Vault\n\n - Experience managing self-hosted and SaaS platforms such as Splunk, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Cloudflare, Ingresses, Gitlab\n\n - Experience running Kubernetes as a Platform offering for engineering teams\n\n - Kubernetes AWS or on-premises experience managing workloads at scale\n\n - Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis\n\n - Familiarity with CI/CD deployment pipelines and related tools.\n\n - Working experience in managing AWS infrastructure components\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken is building a dedicated AI Compute and Infrastructure team to power the next generation of model training, inference, evaluation, and experimentation across the exchange. This team sits within engineering leadership and owns the infrastructure layer that lets Kraken run AI workloads with control, speed, reliability, and cost discipline.
The team is responsible for GPU and accelerator infrastructure, cluster operations, scheduling, model serving, observability, capacity planning, and cost-efficient compute at scale. This is the backbone that allows Kraken to train, serve, evaluate, and iterate on AI systems in-house where it matters for privacy, latency, reliability, cost, or product differentiation.
You will join a small, senior, high-impact team working directly with AI/ML researchers, platform engineers, security teams, and product teams. The mandate is simple: make Kraken's AI ambitions real by building compute infrastructure that is fast, dependable, efficient, and production-grade.
Own and operate GPU and accelerator clusters used for training, inference, evaluation, and experimentation, including drivers, runtimes, kernels, device plugins, node configuration, scheduling primitives, and workload isolation.
Design infrastructure that enables Kraken teams to run models locally on GPUs where it is strategically and economically preferable, reducing unnecessary dependency on external providers and containing compute costs.
Build and improve scheduling, orchestration, placement, quota management, and utilization systems across heterogeneous accelerator environments.
Optimize inference pipelines for latency, throughput, reliability, memory efficiency, and cost using frameworks such as vLLM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, or equivalent serving stacks.
Partner with ML engineers and researchers to remove bottlenecks in training, evaluation, batch inference, online inference, deployment, and production debugging workflows.
Build observability for GPU utilization, memory pressure, queue depth, saturation, token throughput, request latency, failed workloads, capacity pressure, and spend.
Drive reliability, incident response, alerting, runbooks, and post-incident improvements for always-on AI compute infrastructure.
Evaluate and integrate new hardware, cloud instance families, specialized accelerators, runtimes, schedulers, and serving frameworks as the AI infrastructure landscape evolves.
Build tooling that makes GPU usage visible, accountable, and easier for internal teams to consume without needing to become infrastructure experts.
Contribute to long-term architecture decisions that balance performance, cost efficiency, scalability, operational simplicity, and production safety.
5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, with significant time spent on GPU compute, ML infrastructure, distributed systems, high-performance computing, or large-scale production platforms.
Hands-on experience operating GPU clusters or accelerator-backed infrastructure in production or production-like environments, including scheduling, orchestration, utilization monitoring, and cost optimization.
Strong systems engineering fundamentals across Linux, networking, storage, containers, Kubernetes, distributed runtimes, and production debugging.
Experience with ML serving frameworks such as vLLM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, TorchServe, KServe, Ray Serve, or equivalent systems.
Proficiency in Python for infrastructure automation, tooling, debugging, integration, and operational workflows.
Practical understanding of performance tradeoffs across batching, concurrency, memory usage, GPU utilization, model size, latency, throughput, availability, and cost.
Track record of optimizing compute costs while maintaining clear performance, reliability, and availability expectations.
Experience building observable systems with useful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and incident workflows.
Comfortable working in high-stakes, always-on environments where uptime, throughput, correctness, and operational discipline are critical.
Clear communicator who can translate infrastructure tradeoffs for researchers, product teams, platform engineers, security stakeholders, and engineering leadership.
Experience at a frontier AI lab, hyperscaler, high-frequency trading firm, research platform, or high-scale ML organization.
Familiarity with custom silicon or specialized accelerators such as TPUs, AWS Trainium, Gaudi, or similar platforms.
Background in capacity planning, procurement input, reserved capacity strategy, cloud accelerator economics, or GPU fleet cost management.
Experience with distributed training frameworks such as DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, FSDP, Ray, or equivalent systems.
Experience debugging CUDA, NCCL, kernel, driver, runtime, memory, networking, or low-level performance issues.
Experience with Rust, C++, Go, CUDA, or other systems languages used for performance-critical infrastructure.
Crypto, financial services, trading infrastructure, or security-sensitive production infrastructure experience.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken is building a dedicated AI Compute and Infrastructure team to power the next generation of model training, inference, evaluation, and experimentation across the exchange. This team sits within engineering leadership and owns the infrastructure layer that lets Kraken run AI workloads with control, speed, reliability, and cost discipline.\n\nThe team is responsible for GPU and accelerator infrastructure, cluster operations, scheduling, model serving, observability, capacity planning, and cost-efficient compute at scale. This is the backbone that allows Kraken to train, serve, evaluate, and iterate on AI systems in-house where it matters for privacy, latency, reliability, cost, or product differentiation.\n\nYou will join a small, senior, high-impact team working directly with AI/ML researchers, platform engineers, security teams, and product teams. The mandate is simple: make Kraken's AI ambitions real by building compute infrastructure that is fast, dependable, efficient, and production-grade.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own and operate GPU and accelerator clusters used for training, inference, evaluation, and experimentation, including drivers, runtimes, kernels, device plugins, node configuration, scheduling primitives, and workload isolation.\n\n - Design infrastructure that enables Kraken teams to run models locally on GPUs where it is strategically and economically preferable, reducing unnecessary dependency on external providers and containing compute costs.\n\n - Build and improve scheduling, orchestration, placement, quota management, and utilization systems across heterogeneous accelerator environments.\n\n - Optimize inference pipelines for latency, throughput, reliability, memory efficiency, and cost using frameworks such as vLLM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, or equivalent serving stacks.\n\n - Partner with ML engineers and researchers to remove bottlenecks in training, evaluation, batch inference, online inference, deployment, and production debugging workflows.\n\n - Build observability for GPU utilization, memory pressure, queue depth, saturation, token throughput, request latency, failed workloads, capacity pressure, and spend.\n\n - Drive reliability, incident response, alerting, runbooks, and post-incident improvements for always-on AI compute infrastructure.\n\n - Evaluate and integrate new hardware, cloud instance families, specialized accelerators, runtimes, schedulers, and serving frameworks as the AI infrastructure landscape evolves.\n\n - Build tooling that makes GPU usage visible, accountable, and easier for internal teams to consume without needing to become infrastructure experts.\n\n - Contribute to long-term architecture decisions that balance performance, cost efficiency, scalability, operational simplicity, and production safety.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, with significant time spent on GPU compute, ML infrastructure, distributed systems, high-performance computing, or large-scale production platforms.\n\n - Hands-on experience operating GPU clusters or accelerator-backed infrastructure in production or production-like environments, including scheduling, orchestration, utilization monitoring, and cost optimization.\n\n - Strong systems engineering fundamentals across Linux, networking, storage, containers, Kubernetes, distributed runtimes, and production debugging.\n\n - Experience with ML serving frameworks such as vLLM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, TorchServe, KServe, Ray Serve, or equivalent systems.\n\n - Proficiency in Python for infrastructure automation, tooling, debugging, integration, and operational workflows.\n\n - Practical understanding of performance tradeoffs across batching, concurrency, memory usage, GPU utilization, model size, latency, throughput, availability, and cost.\n\n - Track record of optimizing compute costs while maintaining clear performance, reliability, and availability expectations.\n\n - Experience building observable systems with useful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and incident workflows.\n\n - Comfortable working in high-stakes, always-on environments where uptime, throughput, correctness, and operational discipline are critical.\n\n - Clear communicator who can translate infrastructure tradeoffs for researchers, product teams, platform engineers, security stakeholders, and engineering leadership.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience at a frontier AI lab, hyperscaler, high-frequency trading firm, research platform, or high-scale ML organization.\n\n - Familiarity with custom silicon or specialized accelerators such as TPUs, AWS Trainium, Gaudi, or similar platforms.\n\n - Background in capacity planning, procurement input, reserved capacity strategy, cloud accelerator economics, or GPU fleet cost management.\n\n - Experience with distributed training frameworks such as DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, FSDP, Ray, or equivalent systems.\n\n - Experience debugging CUDA, NCCL, kernel, driver, runtime, memory, networking, or low-level performance issues.\n\n - Experience with Rust, C++, Go, CUDA, or other systems languages used for performance-critical infrastructure.\n\n - Crypto, financial services, trading infrastructure, or security-sensitive production infrastructure experience.\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"083afacb-edf7-4920-8428-e6c6fb7aecc9","title":"Senior Sales Trader, EMEA","department":"Institutional","team":"Institutional","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Europe","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-10-28T15:03:58.256+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"European Union"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/083afacb-edf7-4920-8428-e6c6fb7aecc9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/083afacb-edf7-4920-8428-e6c6fb7aecc9/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken’s OTC desk is a market leader in one of the most innovative and fast-growing industries in the world. Renowned for our white-glove service, we provide market-making to clients globally, 24/7. Offering deep liquidity for tighter spreads, we deliver a private and personalized service for institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals executing large orders. Our OTC desk ensures discreet, secure, and ultra-competitive execution and settlement services.
We are expanding our OTC business, and we’re looking for a Senior Sales Trader trader who can help shape the desk’s direction and growth. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be actively managing client flow, engaging with counterparties, and driving both strategy and execution.
Support and grow the OTC Spot and derivatives desks: Help define strategy, execution, and long-term growth.
Client engagement & business development: Build and maintain relationships with HNWIs, institutional clients, and counterparties.
Risk management: Contribute to robust risk management practices across spot, options and other derivatives by confidently taking and managing client flow, pricing effectively, and maintaining discipline and attention to detail.
Infrastructure & innovation: Partner with technology teams to improve systems across pricing, execution, monitoring, and post-trade processes.
Cross-desk collaboration: Work with spot, futures, and OTC teams to align strategies, optimize liquidity, and capture synergies.
Market insights & opportunities: Stay ahead of crypto and derivatives market dynamics, including funding rates, events, and trends, while proactively highlighting opportunities for growth and innovation to clients.
Growth mindset: Roll up your sleeves to drive business development, expand client relationships, and contribute to the overall expansion of OTC.
8-10+ years of trading experience, with at least 3 years focused on spot and derivatives trading within financial services, FX, or crypto.
Expert in Options Pricing, Execution, and managing client flow risk: Deep understanding of options pricing, trade execution, and risk management strategies. Expertise with crypto-specific products and derivatives is essential.
Strategic execution: Ability to drive the long-term growth of the options desk through smart business development, client-driven flow, and the optimization of trading operations.
Quantitative and Analytical Expertise: Strong quantitative and analytical skills; familiarity with financial modeling and the ability to develop and implement complex trading strategies.
Sales & client engagement: Demonstrated ability to cultivate and expand relationships with institutional and HNWI clients, while actively engaging in trading conversations, driving sales, and maintaining strong communication at all times.
Operational Excellence: In-depth experience with operational processes and safeguards, ensuring trade compliance, smooth execution, and effective risk management throughout the trade lifecycle.
Adaptability: Comfortable with system implementation, evolving workflows, and creative problem-solving for client needs
Passion for markets & innovation: Deep curiosity and drive to stay ahead of market trends, with a strong interest in crypto and derivatives. Committed to continuous learning, staying at the forefront of new technologies, and bringing a forward-thinking, innovative approach.
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Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken’s OTC desk is a market leader in one of the most innovative and fast-growing industries in the world. Renowned for our white-glove service, we provide market-making to clients globally, 24/7. Offering deep liquidity for tighter spreads, we deliver a private and personalized service for institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals executing large orders. Our OTC desk ensures discreet, secure, and ultra-competitive execution and settlement services.\n\nWe are expanding our OTC business, and we’re looking for a Senior Sales Trader trader who can help shape the desk’s direction and growth. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be actively managing client flow, engaging with counterparties, and driving both strategy and execution.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Support and grow the OTC Spot and derivatives desks: Help define strategy, execution, and long-term growth.\n\n - Client engagement & business development: Build and maintain relationships with HNWIs, institutional clients, and counterparties.\n\n - Risk management: Contribute to robust risk management practices across spot, options and other derivatives by confidently taking and managing client flow, pricing effectively, and maintaining discipline and attention to detail.\n\n - Infrastructure & innovation: Partner with technology teams to improve systems across pricing, execution, monitoring, and post-trade processes.\n\n - Cross-desk collaboration: Work with spot, futures, and OTC teams to align strategies, optimize liquidity, and capture synergies.\n\n - Market insights & opportunities: Stay ahead of crypto and derivatives market dynamics, including funding rates, events, and trends, while proactively highlighting opportunities for growth and innovation to clients.\n\n - Growth mindset: Roll up your sleeves to drive business development, expand client relationships, and contribute to the overall expansion of OTC.\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8-10+ years of trading experience, with at least 3 years focused on spot and derivatives trading within financial services, FX, or crypto.\n\n - Expert in Options Pricing, Execution, and managing client flow risk: Deep understanding of options pricing, trade execution, and risk management strategies. Expertise with crypto-specific products and derivatives is essential.\n\n - Strategic execution: Ability to drive the long-term growth of the options desk through smart business development, client-driven flow, and the optimization of trading operations.\n\n - Quantitative and Analytical Expertise: Strong quantitative and analytical skills; familiarity with financial modeling and the ability to develop and implement complex trading strategies.\n\n - Sales & client engagement: Demonstrated ability to cultivate and expand relationships with institutional and HNWI clients, while actively engaging in trading conversations, driving sales, and maintaining strong communication at all times.\n\n - Operational Excellence: In-depth experience with operational processes and safeguards, ensuring trade compliance, smooth execution, and effective risk management throughout the trade lifecycle.\n\n - Adaptability: Comfortable with system implementation, evolving workflows, and creative problem-solving for client needs\n\n - Passion for markets & innovation: Deep curiosity and drive to stay ahead of market trends, with a strong interest in crypto and derivatives. Committed to continuous learning, staying at the forefront of new technologies, and bringing a forward-thinking, innovative approach.\n \n \n\n#LI-Remote\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"09078f9a-837f-4d91-a7d8-4d67faaffe02","title":"Sr. Data Analyst, Growth","department":"Data","team":"Data Analytics","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Colombia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Colombia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-05T08:09:38.307+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/09078f9a-837f-4d91-a7d8-4d67faaffe02","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/09078f9a-837f-4d91-a7d8-4d67faaffe02/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
At Kraken, the data team is the infrastructure layer beneath every product decision. We're not looking for someone to report on what happened. We're looking for someone who builds the systems that make it possible to know at all and then uses them to shape what happens next.
We're looking for a Senior Data Analyst, Growth to join our team remotely. This is a staff-level individual contributor role where you will own the Growth domain end to end. You won't just be answering questions. You'll be deciding which questions are worth asking, building the infrastructure to answer them at scale, and influencing the technical direction of the team along the way. Experimentation is core to how we work. We run rigorous A/B tests, apply causal inference at scale and treat experimentation as a first-class discipline, not an afterthought.
You'll own production-grade pipelines, dbt models, dashboards and metric frameworks. You'll define north star metrics, drive experimentation infrastructure and translate results into clear business recommendations. You'll also play an active role in shaping how AI tooling is embedded into how we work, from LLM-augmented pipelines to GenAI-assisted workflows that have real, measurable impact on the business.
At this level, we expect more and we expect it faster. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, move quickly without sacrificing quality, and set a bar that raises the team around you.
Operate as a full-stack data analyst within the Growth team, owning your domain completely while collaborating closely with colleagues across the pod.
Own the design and evolution of dashboards, north star metrics and analytical frameworks that drive decisions at the highest level of the business.
Build and maintain data infrastructure at scale, from scalable dbt models and production pipelines to full-funnel reporting that powers cross-functional teams.
Lead experimentation across the Growth domain by designing and owning A/B testing frameworks, applying causal inference techniques and turning results into clear, confident recommendations that influence product and growth strategy.
Influence technical direction across the data team, contributing to how we build, what we prioritise and how we raise the bar on data quality and engineering standards.
Embed AI tooling into your workflow in ways that have tangible business impact, including LLM-augmented pipelines and GenAI-assisted analytics workflows.
Deliver insights through clear, data-driven storytelling to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
10+ years of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering, ideally within fintech, payments, crypto or a high-scale marketplace where data quality and scale are non-negotiable.
Proven track record of building and owning data infrastructure at scale, not just using it. You've built the pipelines, defined the models and taken ownership of what happens when things break.
Deep expertise with dbt is a must. You've used it in production, you know its limits and you've built models that others depend on.
Strong experience managing ELT/ETL pipelines end to end, with hands-on familiarity with Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools.
Full mastery of SQL and strong Python proficiency for pipeline development, analysis and production-grade code.
Deep hands-on experience designing, running and owning experimentation programmes including A/B testing frameworks and causal inference at scale. You've built the infrastructure, not just used it, and you can translate results into clear business decisions.
Experience deploying AI tools including LLM-augmented pipelines or GenAI-assisted workflows with demonstrable business impact.
A track record of influencing technical direction and data strategy, not just executing within it.
Strong communicator who can simplify complex data ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
A degree in a field emphasising analytical rigour such as software engineering, economics or a hard science.
Based in Canada, the US, the UK or the EU and fluent in English.
Nice to haves
Solid understanding of the cryptocurrency space and how financial markets function
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nAt Kraken, the data team is the infrastructure layer beneath every product decision. We're not looking for someone to report on what happened. We're looking for someone who builds the systems that make it possible to know at all and then uses them to shape what happens next.\n\nWe're looking for a Senior Data Analyst, Growth to join our team remotely. This is a staff-level individual contributor role where you will own the Growth domain end to end. You won't just be answering questions. You'll be deciding which questions are worth asking, building the infrastructure to answer them at scale, and influencing the technical direction of the team along the way. Experimentation is core to how we work. We run rigorous A/B tests, apply causal inference at scale and treat experimentation as a first-class discipline, not an afterthought.\n\nYou'll own production-grade pipelines, dbt models, dashboards and metric frameworks. You'll define north star metrics, drive experimentation infrastructure and translate results into clear business recommendations. You'll also play an active role in shaping how AI tooling is embedded into how we work, from LLM-augmented pipelines to GenAI-assisted workflows that have real, measurable impact on the business.\n\nAt this level, we expect more and we expect it faster. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, move quickly without sacrificing quality, and set a bar that raises the team around you.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Operate as a full-stack data analyst within the Growth team, owning your domain completely while collaborating closely with colleagues across the pod.\n\n - Own the design and evolution of dashboards, north star metrics and analytical frameworks that drive decisions at the highest level of the business.\n\n - Build and maintain data infrastructure at scale, from scalable dbt models and production pipelines to full-funnel reporting that powers cross-functional teams.\n\n - Lead experimentation across the Growth domain by designing and owning A/B testing frameworks, applying causal inference techniques and turning results into clear, confident recommendations that influence product and growth strategy.\n\n - Influence technical direction across the data team, contributing to how we build, what we prioritise and how we raise the bar on data quality and engineering standards.\n\n - Embed AI tooling into your workflow in ways that have tangible business impact, including LLM-augmented pipelines and GenAI-assisted analytics workflows.\n\n - Deliver insights through clear, data-driven storytelling to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 10+ years of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering, ideally within fintech, payments, crypto or a high-scale marketplace where data quality and scale are non-negotiable.\n\n - Proven track record of building and owning data infrastructure at scale, not just using it. You've built the pipelines, defined the models and taken ownership of what happens when things break.\n\n - Deep expertise with dbt is a must. You've used it in production, you know its limits and you've built models that others depend on.\n\n - Strong experience managing ELT/ETL pipelines end to end, with hands-on familiarity with Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools.\n\n - Full mastery of SQL and strong Python proficiency for pipeline development, analysis and production-grade code.\n\n - Deep hands-on experience designing, running and owning experimentation programmes including A/B testing frameworks and causal inference at scale. You've built the infrastructure, not just used it, and you can translate results into clear business decisions.\n\n - Experience deploying AI tools including LLM-augmented pipelines or GenAI-assisted workflows with demonstrable business impact.\n\n - A track record of influencing technical direction and data strategy, not just executing within it.\n\n - Strong communicator who can simplify complex data ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.\n\n - A degree in a field emphasising analytical rigour such as software engineering, economics or a hard science.\n\n - Based in Canada, the US, the UK or the EU and fluent in English.\n\n\n\nNice to haves\n\n - Solid understanding of the cryptocurrency space and how financial markets function\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Payward Limited (PWL) is the UK entity through which Kraken operates its crypto exchange, registered with the FCA as a cryptoasset business under the Money Laundering Regulations. As we continue to grow our UK presence and regulatory footprint, we are looking for a Compliance Associate to join our UK Compliance team.
Reporting to the CCO, the Compliance Associate will play a hands-on role supporting the day-to-day operation of the UK compliance function. This is a broad role spanning compliance monitoring, policy, risk management and regulatory engagement, with significant scope to grow as the business and its regulatory obligations evolve.
Support delivery of the Compliance Monitoring Programme (CMP), including designing and executing second-line monitoring reviews across key regulatory obligations
Document testing results clearly and present findings to relevant governance committees
Track agreed remediation actions and follow up with first-line stakeholders to verify closure
Assist with the maintenance and periodic review of UK compliance policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and group frameworks
Contribute to compliance risk assessments and the maintenance of the UK compliance risk register
Monitor internal and external developments — including business change, regulatory updates and emerging technology — to identify and escalate new compliance risks
Support horizon scanning and gap analysis as new regulatory obligations emerge, including developments under the UK cryptoasset regime
Support preparation of materials for UK governance committees and boards, including RAG dashboards, KRI reporting and compliance updates
Assist with record-keeping obligations and maintain accurate compliance registers and trackers
Respond to compliance-related inquiries and due diligence requests from banking partners, counterparties and other external stakeholders
Liaise with Kraken's global compliance function to ensure alignment between group policies and UK-specific regulatory requirements
Support senior members of the UK Compliance team on ad hoc regulatory projects and workstreams as they arise
You have compliance experience in a regulated financial services firm, ideally with exposure to cryptoasset, payments or investment management businesses
You have practical experience in compliance monitoring, testing or risk management, and understand how to translate regulatory requirements into operational controls
You are familiar with the UK regulatory landscape, including the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and developing cryptoasset regulation
You are highly organised, proactive and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
You communicate clearly and can translate complex compliance requirements into plain language for non-compliance audiences
You are data-driven and comfortable using data to inform risk judgements and prioritise your work
You have excellent automation skills — you embrace tools and technology to streamline compliance processes, build efficient trackers and reduce manual effort where possible
You have an execution mindset: you take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments and deliver to a high standard
Experience at a cryptoasset business or exposure to the UK cryptoasset regulatory regime
Familiarity with compliance management systems or workflow automation platforms
ICA, CISI or equivalent compliance qualification
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nPayward Limited (PWL) is the UK entity through which Kraken operates its crypto exchange, registered with the FCA as a cryptoasset business under the Money Laundering Regulations. As we continue to grow our UK presence and regulatory footprint, we are looking for a Compliance Associate to join our UK Compliance team.\n\nReporting to the CCO, the Compliance Associate will play a hands-on role supporting the day-to-day operation of the UK compliance function. This is a broad role spanning compliance monitoring, policy, risk management and regulatory engagement, with significant scope to grow as the business and its regulatory obligations evolve.\n\n \n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n \n\n\nCOMPLIANCE MONITORING AND TESTING\n\n - Support delivery of the Compliance Monitoring Programme (CMP), including designing and executing second-line monitoring reviews across key regulatory obligations\n\n - Document testing results clearly and present findings to relevant governance committees\n\n - Track agreed remediation actions and follow up with first-line stakeholders to verify closure\n\n\nPOLICY, RISK MANAGEMENT, GOVERNANCE AND REPORTING\n\n - Assist with the maintenance and periodic review of UK compliance policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and group frameworks\n\n - Contribute to compliance risk assessments and the maintenance of the UK compliance risk register\n\n - Monitor internal and external developments — including business change, regulatory updates and emerging technology — to identify and escalate new compliance risks\n\n - Support horizon scanning and gap analysis as new regulatory obligations emerge, including developments under the UK cryptoasset regime\n\n - Support preparation of materials for UK governance committees and boards, including RAG dashboards, KRI reporting and compliance updates\n\n - Assist with record-keeping obligations and maintain accurate compliance registers and trackers\n\n\nSTAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND PROJECT SUPPORT\n\n - Respond to compliance-related inquiries and due diligence requests from banking partners, counterparties and other external stakeholders\n\n - Liaise with Kraken's global compliance function to ensure alignment between group policies and UK-specific regulatory requirements\n\n - Support senior members of the UK Compliance team on ad hoc regulatory projects and workstreams as they arise\n\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - You have compliance experience in a regulated financial services firm, ideally with exposure to cryptoasset, payments or investment management businesses\n\n - You have practical experience in compliance monitoring, testing or risk management, and understand how to translate regulatory requirements into operational controls\n\n - You are familiar with the UK regulatory landscape, including the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and developing cryptoasset regulation\n\n - You are highly organised, proactive and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving environment\n\n - You communicate clearly and can translate complex compliance requirements into plain language for non-compliance audiences\n\n - You are data-driven and comfortable using data to inform risk judgements and prioritise your work\n\n - You have excellent automation skills — you embrace tools and technology to streamline compliance processes, build efficient trackers and reduce manual effort where possible\n\n - You have an execution mindset: you take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments and deliver to a high standard\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience at a cryptoasset business or exposure to the UK cryptoasset regulatory regime\n\n - Familiarity with compliance management systems or workflow automation platforms\n\n - ICA, CISI or equivalent compliance qualification\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken’s world-class Security Team is growing. As we continue to scale and mature our information technology controls program, we are seeking a senior professional with a strong background in IT controls and external audit to help build and operate a program designed for enterprise scale.
This role sits within Kraken’s Security Compliance function and offers close partnership with experienced leaders across our IT program, security organization, and enterprise technology stack. You’ll have the opportunity to establish audit rigor while also helping design and implement a robust, next-gen controls framework in a rapidly evolving Web3 environment.
Kraken is a leader in the security and digital assets space. You will collaborate with peers who have led global audit and consulting teams across Big Four organizations and contribute to initiatives shaping emerging Web3 standards. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact both within Kraken and across the broader industry.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working cross-functionally across a variety of teams, including Finance, Technology, Engineering, and Security to inform sound, risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.
This is a fully remote role.
Lead and manage SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations under AICPA standards in a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment, partnering with external auditors and internal teams to design, implement, and continuously improve IT control processes
Support end-to-end SOX planning and execution, including IT system scoping, audit readiness, and development and delivery of training for control owners operating in a high-growth, regulated business
Act as a trusted advisor to Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance teams, translating SOX and audit requirements into practical, scalable controls aligned with modern technology stacks
Lead security and IT control gap assessments, evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, and drive remediation efforts through to completion in partnership with control owners
Facilitate the ongoing maturation of IT general controls (ITGCs) and IT application controls (ITACs), balancing regulatory expectations with the pace of product and platform innovation
Oversee the quality and execution of audit initiatives, applying strong professional judgment to identify control gaps, assess risk, and guide teams through complex audit and compliance matters
Perform impact assessments for SOX control deficiencies and design risk-based, pragmatic remediation plans that stand up to auditor scrutiny without slowing the business
Implement and enhance controls monitoring and defense-in-depth across key IT risk areas to improve audit outcomes and strengthen the overall control environment
Partner cross-functionally to identify systemic program challenges, recommend process improvements, and drive durable solutions in a scaling organization
Develop and maintain clear, auditor-ready documentation, including data flow diagrams and process flowcharts for high-risk security and financial processes
Work closely with internal and external auditors, helping them navigate a sophisticated IT control environment and ensuring efficient, high-quality audits
Support audit evidence collection and continuous improvement initiatives, including leveraging automation to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability
5+ years of experience in external IT audit and/or technology risk assurance or advisory, with demonstrated ownership of complex audit requirements
Strong hands-on experience with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), including SOX 404 frameworks, control design, and operating effectiveness testing
Prior experience at a Big 4 or other large public accounting firm, or equivalent experience working with external auditors in a highly regulated environment
Proven ability to lead compliance and audit initiatives end to end, from planning and risk assessment through remediation and audit close
Experience auditing or assessing hybrid and cloud-based environments (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including access management, change management, and logging/monitoring controls
Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, driving outcomes across cross-functional teams with minimal supervision
Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate cross-functional work, and hold stakeholders accountable to agreed timelines
Strong organizational and time management skills, with a high degree of self motivation and effectiveness in a remote or distributed working environment
Exposure to fintech, payments, crypto, or digital asset business models, an added plus for crypto audit experience
Familiarity with risk and control frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT) beyond baseline audit requirements
Professional security management certification such as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) other similar credentials, is a huge plus
Accelerate your technical depth by working in a cutting-edge, modern infrastructure environment, gaining exposure to cloud-native architectures and complex, real-time systems
Broaden your impact and perspective by collaborating with highly integrated, globally distributed teams and working alongside world-class professionals across engineering, security, and other technical disciplines
Move beyond “check-the-box” compliance to influence how controls are designed and scaled in a fast-growing, regulated technology business
Gain meaningful ownership and visibility while helping shape a maturing audit and compliance program in a dynamic, evolving industry
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken’s world-class Security Team is growing. As we continue to scale and mature our information technology controls program, we are seeking a senior professional with a strong background in IT controls and external audit to help build and operate a program designed for enterprise scale.\n\nThis role sits within Kraken’s Security Compliance function and offers close partnership with experienced leaders across our IT program, security organization, and enterprise technology stack. You’ll have the opportunity to establish audit rigor while also helping design and implement a robust, next-gen controls framework in a rapidly evolving Web3 environment.\n\nKraken is a leader in the security and digital assets space. You will collaborate with peers who have led global audit and consulting teams across Big Four organizations and contribute to initiatives shaping emerging Web3 standards. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact both within Kraken and across the broader industry.\n\nThe ideal candidate is comfortable working cross-functionally across a variety of teams, including Finance, Technology, Engineering, and Security to inform sound, risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.\n\nThis is a fully remote role.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Lead and manage SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations under AICPA standards in a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment, partnering with external auditors and internal teams to design, implement, and continuously improve IT control processes\n\n - Support end-to-end SOX planning and execution, including IT system scoping, audit readiness, and development and delivery of training for control owners operating in a high-growth, regulated business\n\n - Act as a trusted advisor to Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance teams, translating SOX and audit requirements into practical, scalable controls aligned with modern technology stacks\n\n - Lead security and IT control gap assessments, evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, and drive remediation efforts through to completion in partnership with control owners\n\n - Facilitate the ongoing maturation of IT general controls (ITGCs) and IT application controls (ITACs), balancing regulatory expectations with the pace of product and platform innovation\n\n - Oversee the quality and execution of audit initiatives, applying strong professional judgment to identify control gaps, assess risk, and guide teams through complex audit and compliance matters\n\n - Perform impact assessments for SOX control deficiencies and design risk-based, pragmatic remediation plans that stand up to auditor scrutiny without slowing the business\n\n - Implement and enhance controls monitoring and defense-in-depth across key IT risk areas to improve audit outcomes and strengthen the overall control environment\n\n - Partner cross-functionally to identify systemic program challenges, recommend process improvements, and drive durable solutions in a scaling organization\n\n - Develop and maintain clear, auditor-ready documentation, including data flow diagrams and process flowcharts for high-risk security and financial processes\n\n - Work closely with internal and external auditors, helping them navigate a sophisticated IT control environment and ensuring efficient, high-quality audits\n\n - Support audit evidence collection and continuous improvement initiatives, including leveraging automation to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience in external IT audit and/or technology risk assurance or advisory, with demonstrated ownership of complex audit requirements\n\n - Strong hands-on experience with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), including SOX 404 frameworks, control design, and operating effectiveness testing\n\n - Prior experience at a Big 4 or other large public accounting firm, or equivalent experience working with external auditors in a highly regulated environment\n\n - Proven ability to lead compliance and audit initiatives end to end, from planning and risk assessment through remediation and audit close\n\n - Experience auditing or assessing hybrid and cloud-based environments (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including access management, change management, and logging/monitoring controls\n\n - Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, driving outcomes across cross-functional teams with minimal supervision\n\n - Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\n - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate cross-functional work, and hold stakeholders accountable to agreed timelines\n\n - Strong organizational and time management skills, with a high degree of self motivation and effectiveness in a remote or distributed working environment\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Exposure to fintech, payments, crypto, or digital asset business models, an added plus for crypto audit experience\n\n - Familiarity with risk and control frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT) beyond baseline audit requirements\n\n - Professional security management certification such as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) other similar credentials, is a huge plus\n\n\nWHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU\n\n - Accelerate your technical depth by working in a cutting-edge, modern infrastructure environment, gaining exposure to cloud-native architectures and complex, real-time systems\n\n - Broaden your impact and perspective by collaborating with highly integrated, globally distributed teams and working alongside world-class professionals across engineering, security, and other technical disciplines\n\n - Move beyond “check-the-box” compliance to influence how controls are designed and scaled in a fast-growing, regulated technology business\n\n - Gain meaningful ownership and visibility while helping shape a maturing audit and compliance program in a dynamic, evolving industry\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"15205d19-25d9-4e12-968e-9d445a5d8224","title":"Product Manager - Payments","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-23T09:07:32.482+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/15205d19-25d9-4e12-968e-9d445a5d8224","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/15205d19-25d9-4e12-968e-9d445a5d8224/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Team
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are currently seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team to be focused on unlocking faster, easier, and more reliable access to our platform across global markets. By owning a portfolio of payment rails - both by method and geography - you’ll directly influence how customers make payments to and from their accounts, and how efficiently those flows scale with the business.
The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken.
As a member of this team, you will be responsible for driving initiatives that enable best in class local payments, improve success rates, reduce friction in user journeys, and generally adapt our payments infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of users - from first-time retail customers to high-volume institutional partners. This is an opportunity to lead cross-functional efforts spanning backend integrations, partner onboarding, frontend UX, and compliance-sensitive flows for all Kraken users alike.
The opportunity
Own and evolve a set of payment rails across both specific methods and geographic regions
Lead partner integrations and manage relationships with payment processors, acquirers, and banking partners
Drive continuous improvement of authorization rates, settlement speed, and overall user conversion
Collaborate with fraud and compliance teams to ensure payment flows meet security, regulatory, and operational standards
Drive UX enhancements through structured experimentation and customer insights
Ensure payment capabilities are scalable and adaptable across our consumer app, pro trading app, and external interfaces such as on/off-ramps
Use data to inform prioritization, track performance, and iterate toward better outcomes
What you’ll bring
3+ years of product management experience, with a focus on payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure
Deep domain expertise in payment systems and rails, including bank transfers, card networks, and/or alternative payment methods
Experience in EU markets
Experience working on both backend systems (e.g. payment orchestration, API integrations) and user-facing features
A strong customer-centric mindset, with a focus on simplicity, trust, and conversion in payment flows
Collaborative and effective across engineering, design, fraud, compliance, and operations
Comfortable working with data to define and measure product impact
Job Code: PMP3
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n \n\nThe Team\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n \n\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team to be focused on unlocking faster, easier, and more reliable access to our platform across global markets. By owning a portfolio of payment rails - both by method and geography - you’ll directly influence how customers make payments to and from their accounts, and how efficiently those flows scale with the business.\n\n \n\nThe Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken.\n\n \n\nAs a member of this team, you will be responsible for driving initiatives that enable best in class local payments, improve success rates, reduce friction in user journeys, and generally adapt our payments infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of users - from first-time retail customers to high-volume institutional partners. This is an opportunity to lead cross-functional efforts spanning backend integrations, partner onboarding, frontend UX, and compliance-sensitive flows for all Kraken users alike.\n\n \n\nThe opportunity\n\n\n\n - Own and evolve a set of payment rails across both specific methods and geographic regions\n\n - Lead partner integrations and manage relationships with payment processors, acquirers, and banking partners\n\n - Drive continuous improvement of authorization rates, settlement speed, and overall user conversion\n\n - Collaborate with fraud and compliance teams to ensure payment flows meet security, regulatory, and operational standards\n\n - Drive UX enhancements through structured experimentation and customer insights\n\n - Ensure payment capabilities are scalable and adaptable across our consumer app, pro trading app, and external interfaces such as on/off-ramps\n\n - Use data to inform prioritization, track performance, and iterate toward better outcomes\n\n \n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\n\n\n - 3+ years of product management experience, with a focus on payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure\n\n - Deep domain expertise in payment systems and rails, including bank transfers, card networks, and/or alternative payment methods\n\n - Experience in EU markets\n\n - Experience working on both backend systems (e.g. payment orchestration, API integrations) and user-facing features\n\n - A strong customer-centric mindset, with a focus on simplicity, trust, and conversion in payment flows\n\n - Collaborative and effective across engineering, design, fraud, compliance, and operations\n\n - Comfortable working with data to define and measure product impact\n\n \n\nJob Code: PMP3\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"155ad131-d77a-4d79-b99d-772df57eff14","title":"Change Oversight & Third Party Operations Manager","department":"Regional Operations","team":"European Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Ireland","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-10T12:17:19.375+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/155ad131-d77a-4d79-b99d-772df57eff14","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/155ad131-d77a-4d79-b99d-772df57eff14/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
As the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.
Change Oversight and Change Management
Support the ongoing development, implementation, and operation of Kraken’s IT General Control (“ITGC”) oversight and technology governance framework across regulated entities and core operational environments.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, Compliance, and operational teams to identify, assess, and manage risks arising from system, infrastructure, process, or data changes impacting regulatory or operational control environments.
Support the operation and continuous enhancement of governance processes relating to:
IT general controls;
technology change management;
operational resilience;
implementation readiness;
testing and validation;
and post-implementation oversight.
Assist in the development and maintenance of policies, procedures, workflows, standards, and governance documentation supporting operational risk management and technology governance activities.
Support the maintenance and refinement of critical systems inventories, regulatory-critical datasets, data dependencies, and associated governance artefacts.
Review and analyse the effectiveness of IT general controls, testing standards, implementation readiness controls, and post-implementation validation processes across operational and regulatory control environments.
Support the execution and review of post-implementation validation activities and assist in the investigation, escalation, and remediation of identified control issues, operational incidents, or reconciliation variances.
Assist in the development and operationalisation of workflow tooling, data governance controls, and technology-enabled oversight processes designed to support scalable governance and operational risk management.
Help develop and implement performance metrics supporting the monitoring, reporting, escalation, and management of technology and operational risks.
Work with second line of defence teams to support the development and maintenance of a consistent framework for identifying, measuring, mitigating, monitoring, and managing technology and operational risks.
Support the embedding of a strong risk culture across operational and technology functions, where effective risk management forms part of day-to-day decision making and operational processes.
Work with Internal Audit, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Engineering, Data, and external assurance providers to support periodic reviews of operational processes and IT general controls, including testing, validation, evidence gathering, and reporting activities.
Assist in the preparation of governance reporting, management information, committee materials, audit evidence, and regulatory submissions relating to technology governance and operational control frameworks.
Support liaison and co-ordination between Kraken’s regulated entities and Group functions in relation to technology change, operational dependencies, governance processes, audit activities, and remediation initiatives.
Support adherence to enterprise risk management frameworks and IT-related policies, standards, and procedures.
Third Party Management
Proactively partner with business stakeholders and suppliers throughout contract negotiations, developing negotiation strategies, fallback positions, and acceptable commercial terms while establishing key performance benchmarks to measure contractual success.
Lead and coordinate the contract review process across internal stakeholders, engaging legal and subject matter experts as needed to ensure timely execution and compliance.
Support supplier rationalization initiatives to optimize the vendor portfolio, driving cost savings, supply continuity, quality improvements, innovation, and increased vendor value.
Analyze business requirements and develop vendor management guidelines, policies, and standardized contracting protocols.
Establish and manage the vendor lifecycle strategy, including vendor planning, sourcing, selection, performance management, and offboarding/transition activities.
Identify and mitigate risks associated with strategic suppliers while monitoring vendor performance against negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Master Service Agreements (MSAs).
Perform spend analysis and financial modeling to support commercial negotiations, vendor performance reviews, and executive reporting through data-driven dashboards and metrics.
Create and manage purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) for a wide range of goods and services, ensuring accuracy of accounting classifications and coding.
Partner with Accounts Payable, FP&A, IT, and business stakeholders to drive digital transformation initiatives across the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process.
Champion continuous improvement efforts by identifying process enhancement opportunities, implementing automation solutions, testing new workflows, and driving operational efficiencies.
Manage the full purchase order lifecycle, ensuring timely processing, approvals, receipt validation, and issue resolution.
Analyze purchasing and procurement data to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, validate data integrity, and identify discrepancies, trends, and improvement opportunities.
5+ years of experience in IT risk management, operational risk, IT audit, technology governance, operational resilience, procurement, or a related discipline, ideally within a financial services, fintech, or crypto organisation, or a consulting/audit environment.
Strong understanding of IT general controls, change management processes, testing and validation standards, and operational risk management frameworks.
Experience supporting or assessing operational control environments relating to technology governance, regulatory compliance, or operational resilience.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex operational or technology risks and translate findings into practical recommendations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear governance reporting and engage effectively with senior stakeholders across business, technology, and control functions.
Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Data, and operational teams.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and regulatory requirements.
Systems thinker with an interest in leveraging technology, workflow tooling, automation, and data-driven approaches to support scalable governance and oversight processes.
Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and governance activities simultaneously.
Familiarity with governance frameworks and regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience, outsourcing, technology risk, or digital asset regulation (e.g. MiCAR, DORA, PSD2, E-Money Regulations).
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nAs the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n\n\nChange Oversight and Change Management\n\n - Support the ongoing development, implementation, and operation of Kraken’s IT General Control (“ITGC”) oversight and technology governance framework across regulated entities and core operational environments.\n\n - Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, Compliance, and operational teams to identify, assess, and manage risks arising from system, infrastructure, process, or data changes impacting regulatory or operational control environments.\n\n - Support the operation and continuous enhancement of governance processes relating to:\n \n - IT general controls;\n \n - technology change management;\n \n - operational resilience;\n \n - implementation readiness;\n \n - testing and validation;\n \n - and post-implementation oversight.\n\n - Assist in the development and maintenance of policies, procedures, workflows, standards, and governance documentation supporting operational risk management and technology governance activities.\n\n - Support the maintenance and refinement of critical systems inventories, regulatory-critical datasets, data dependencies, and associated governance artefacts.\n\n - Review and analyse the effectiveness of IT general controls, testing standards, implementation readiness controls, and post-implementation validation processes across operational and regulatory control environments.\n\n - Support the execution and review of post-implementation validation activities and assist in the investigation, escalation, and remediation of identified control issues, operational incidents, or reconciliation variances.\n\n - Assist in the development and operationalisation of workflow tooling, data governance controls, and technology-enabled oversight processes designed to support scalable governance and operational risk management.\n\n - Help develop and implement performance metrics supporting the monitoring, reporting, escalation, and management of technology and operational risks.\n\n - Work with second line of defence teams to support the development and maintenance of a consistent framework for identifying, measuring, mitigating, monitoring, and managing technology and operational risks.\n\n - Support the embedding of a strong risk culture across operational and technology functions, where effective risk management forms part of day-to-day decision making and operational processes.\n\n - Work with Internal Audit, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Engineering, Data, and external assurance providers to support periodic reviews of operational processes and IT general controls, including testing, validation, evidence gathering, and reporting activities.\n\n - Assist in the preparation of governance reporting, management information, committee materials, audit evidence, and regulatory submissions relating to technology governance and operational control frameworks.\n\n - Support liaison and co-ordination between Kraken’s regulated entities and Group functions in relation to technology change, operational dependencies, governance processes, audit activities, and remediation initiatives.\n\n - Support adherence to enterprise risk management frameworks and IT-related policies, standards, and procedures.\n \n\nThird Party Management\n\n - Proactively partner with business stakeholders and suppliers throughout contract negotiations, developing negotiation strategies, fallback positions, and acceptable commercial terms while establishing key performance benchmarks to measure contractual success.\n\n - Lead and coordinate the contract review process across internal stakeholders, engaging legal and subject matter experts as needed to ensure timely execution and compliance.\n\n - Support supplier rationalization initiatives to optimize the vendor portfolio, driving cost savings, supply continuity, quality improvements, innovation, and increased vendor value.\n\n - Analyze business requirements and develop vendor management guidelines, policies, and standardized contracting protocols.\n\n - Establish and manage the vendor lifecycle strategy, including vendor planning, sourcing, selection, performance management, and offboarding/transition activities.\n\n - Identify and mitigate risks associated with strategic suppliers while monitoring vendor performance against negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Master Service Agreements (MSAs).\n\n - Perform spend analysis and financial modeling to support commercial negotiations, vendor performance reviews, and executive reporting through data-driven dashboards and metrics.\n\n - Create and manage purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) for a wide range of goods and services, ensuring accuracy of accounting classifications and coding.\n\n - Partner with Accounts Payable, FP&A, IT, and business stakeholders to drive digital transformation initiatives across the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process.\n\n - Champion continuous improvement efforts by identifying process enhancement opportunities, implementing automation solutions, testing new workflows, and driving operational efficiencies.\n\n - Manage the full purchase order lifecycle, ensuring timely processing, approvals, receipt validation, and issue resolution.\n\n - Analyze purchasing and procurement data to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, validate data integrity, and identify discrepancies, trends, and improvement opportunities.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience in IT risk management, operational risk, IT audit, technology governance, operational resilience, procurement, or a related discipline, ideally within a financial services, fintech, or crypto organisation, or a consulting/audit environment.\n\n - Strong understanding of IT general controls, change management processes, testing and validation standards, and operational risk management frameworks.\n\n - Experience supporting or assessing operational control environments relating to technology governance, regulatory compliance, or operational resilience.\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex operational or technology risks and translate findings into practical recommendations.\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear governance reporting and engage effectively with senior stakeholders across business, technology, and control functions.\n\n - Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Data, and operational teams.\n\n - Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and regulatory requirements.\n\n - Systems thinker with an interest in leveraging technology, workflow tooling, automation, and data-driven approaches to support scalable governance and oversight processes.\n\n - Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and governance activities simultaneously.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Familiarity with governance frameworks and regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience, outsourcing, technology risk, or digital asset regulation (e.g. MiCAR, DORA, PSD2, E-Money Regulations).\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"1f12b2eb-5d14-4aab-995e-eae7a126b90a","title":"Product Manager, Prop Trading - Breakout","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-24T14:58:30.477+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/1f12b2eb-5d14-4aab-995e-eae7a126b90a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/1f12b2eb-5d14-4aab-995e-eae7a126b90a/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Breakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.
We're a lean, high-conviction team where every hire genuinely shapes the product. The trading experience is our core competitive surface — it's what traders evaluate us on, stay for, and tell their networks about. This role owns it.
You'll work alongside traders, engineers, and operators who move fast, think rigorously, and hold each other to a high bar. If you want to build the best prop trading terminal in crypto, this is the team.
Reporting directly to the Head of Product, the PM, Prop Trading will own the end-to-end trading experience across Breakout Prop and Kraken Prop — web and mobile.
Drive the trading experience roadmap within your domain — sequencing, requirements, and delivery — in close partnership with the Head of Product
Define what best-in-class prop trading UX looks like: fast, intuitive, and built for serious derivatives traders
Drive execution on near-term priorities and terminal parity with the best in market (Hyperliquid and beyond)
Lead the product strategy for agentic and API trading — giving power users programmatic access to prop capital
Partner with Kraken Pro engineering to build a trading experience that feels native to the crypto ecosystem while serving the specific needs of prop traders
Work closely the risk team to translate execution nuance into product requirements — understanding A-book vs B-book mechanics, drawdown rules, and how they shape UX
Set the bar for what \"done\" means on trading features — requirements, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and post-ship iteration
What You Bring
Product depth
3-6+ years in senior product management, with significant time owning a trading or execution product
Deep understanding of derivatives trading — perps, futures, margin, leverage, order types, risk parameters
Experience building for professional or semi-professional traders who have high expectations and low tolerance for friction
Track record of shipping complex, technically demanding features end-to-end with high quality
Ability to write detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineers can act on without constant clarification
Strong opinions on trading UX — you've used the best terminals out there and you know what good looks like
Technical fluency
Comfortable in the technical weeds — you can read API docs, understand data contracts, and have an informed opinion on architectural tradeoffs
Experience working on products with real-time data requirements (streaming prices, live P&L, order state)
Familiarity with trading infrastructure concepts — order routing, execution layers, risk engines, position monitoring
Bonus: experience with agentic workflows, algorithmic trading, or API-first product design
Leadership & craft
Senior enough to own a domain with minimal direction — you set the agenda, you don't wait for one
Strong written communicator — your PRDs, tickets, and async updates are clear and complete
Experience working across multiple engineering teams and navigating cross-functional dependencies
Trader empathy — you understand what it feels like to have a position open and need the product to work perfectly
Crypto-native or deeply curious — you understand the space, the culture, and why prop trading matters here
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nBreakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.\n\nWe're a lean, high-conviction team where every hire genuinely shapes the product. The trading experience is our core competitive surface — it's what traders evaluate us on, stay for, and tell their networks about. This role owns it.\n\nYou'll work alongside traders, engineers, and operators who move fast, think rigorously, and hold each other to a high bar. If you want to build the best prop trading terminal in crypto, this is the team.\n\nReporting directly to the Head of Product, the PM, Prop Trading will own the end-to-end trading experience across Breakout Prop and Kraken Prop — web and mobile.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Drive the trading experience roadmap within your domain — sequencing, requirements, and delivery — in close partnership with the Head of Product\n\n - Define what best-in-class prop trading UX looks like: fast, intuitive, and built for serious derivatives traders\n\n - Drive execution on near-term priorities and terminal parity with the best in market (Hyperliquid and beyond)\n\n - Lead the product strategy for agentic and API trading — giving power users programmatic access to prop capital\n\n - Partner with Kraken Pro engineering to build a trading experience that feels native to the crypto ecosystem while serving the specific needs of prop traders\n\n - Work closely the risk team to translate execution nuance into product requirements — understanding A-book vs B-book mechanics, drawdown rules, and how they shape UX\n\n - Set the bar for what \"done\" means on trading features — requirements, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and post-ship iteration\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - Product depth\n \n - 3-6+ years in senior product management, with significant time owning a trading or execution product\n \n - Deep understanding of derivatives trading — perps, futures, margin, leverage, order types, risk parameters\n \n - Experience building for professional or semi-professional traders who have high expectations and low tolerance for friction\n \n - Track record of shipping complex, technically demanding features end-to-end with high quality\n \n - Ability to write detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineers can act on without constant clarification\n \n - Strong opinions on trading UX — you've used the best terminals out there and you know what good looks like\n \n Technical fluency\n \n - Comfortable in the technical weeds — you can read API docs, understand data contracts, and have an informed opinion on architectural tradeoffs\n \n - Experience working on products with real-time data requirements (streaming prices, live P&L, order state)\n \n - Familiarity with trading infrastructure concepts — order routing, execution layers, risk engines, position monitoring\n \n - Bonus: experience with agentic workflows, algorithmic trading, or API-first product design\n \n Leadership & craft\n \n - Senior enough to own a domain with minimal direction — you set the agenda, you don't wait for one\n \n - Strong written communicator — your PRDs, tickets, and async updates are clear and complete\n \n - Experience working across multiple engineering teams and navigating cross-functional dependencies\n \n - Trader empathy — you understand what it feels like to have a position open and need the product to work perfectly\n \n - Crypto-native or deeply curious — you understand the space, the culture, and why prop trading matters here\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$110.4K – $220.8K","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$110.4K - $220.8K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"479eac2e-98e0-42b9-9d01-987c4451ce31","tierSummary":"$110.4K – $220.8K","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"397e84b0-4de2-43bc-912e-fc49a00f5b5e","summary":"$110.4K – $220.8K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":110400,"maxValue":220800}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":110400,"maxValue":220800}]}},{"id":"2727f6f7-31b2-4f8f-95d9-55cecde1f340","title":"Senior Solutions Engineer - Payward Services","department":"Engineering","team":"Solutions Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-16T04:42:15.168+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/2727f6f7-31b2-4f8f-95d9-55cecde1f340","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/2727f6f7-31b2-4f8f-95d9-55cecde1f340/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
You'll be joining the Solutions Engineering function as a core contributor on our pre-sales team. Your focus is squarely pre-sales — partnering with sales and our Partner Solutions Lead to run discovery, design winning solutions, and build PoCs that close deals. You'll operate within the frameworks and playbooks our Solutions Architect has established, and bring the technical depth to execute them deal by deal.
You'll partner directly with our Solutions Architect, sales team, and Implementation Manager. This is a high-impact execution role — you'll be running deals end-to-end and delivering the technical win alongside sales.
Run technical discovery with prospective customers alongside sales and our Partner Solutions Lead — map their architecture, constraints, and compliance needs to our product suite (Embed, Ramp, Earn, xStocks, CF Benchmarks)
Surface recurring customer asks and product gaps from your deals and feed them to the Solutions Architect to inform the roadmap
Design tailored solutions spanning our existing offerings, customizations to those offerings, bespoke integrations built on top of our platform, or hands-on work directly in the customer's codebase
Scope and build proof-of-concepts that demonstrate technical feasibility and win the deal
Own a clean, structured handoff to our Implementation team — delivering PoCs, solution design docs, and knowledge transfer sessions that ensure what was promised gets built
Execute the pre-sales playbook — discovery frameworks, solution templates, PoC standards, and handoff runbooks — and contribute improvements back to the team as you learn what works
4+ years in a technical pre-sales role (solutions engineering or solutions architecture) at a B2B API or infrastructure company
Proven track record executing the technical pre-sales motion — discovery, solution design, PoC delivery, and deal-winning
Fluency with REST/WebSocket APIs, auth patterns (OAuth, JWT), webhook architecture, and integration debugging
Experience designing and building complex integrations for technical buyers at fintechs, banks, or neobanks — including customizations and bespoke work
Strong knowledge transfer skills — you know how to package a solution design so an implementation team can execute it faithfully
Clear, structured communicator who can run a discovery call, a design review, and a handoff debrief back to back
Experience writing RFPs and documenting solution approaches that clearly communicate how our product and our customizations will solve a customer's problem
Crypto domain knowledge — trading, custody, KYC, staking, fiat ramp mechanics
Experience with embedded finance or crypto-as-a-service products
Experience with Coast and building out proof of concept sales demos inside Coast
Hands-on with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) for rapid prototyping
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nPayward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\nYou'll be joining the Solutions Engineering function as a core contributor on our pre-sales team. Your focus is squarely pre-sales — partnering with sales and our Partner Solutions Lead to run discovery, design winning solutions, and build PoCs that close deals. You'll operate within the frameworks and playbooks our Solutions Architect has established, and bring the technical depth to execute them deal by deal.\n\nYou'll partner directly with our Solutions Architect, sales team, and Implementation Manager. This is a high-impact execution role — you'll be running deals end-to-end and delivering the technical win alongside sales.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Run technical discovery with prospective customers alongside sales and our Partner Solutions Lead — map their architecture, constraints, and compliance needs to our product suite (Embed, Ramp, Earn, xStocks, CF Benchmarks)\n\n - Surface recurring customer asks and product gaps from your deals and feed them to the Solutions Architect to inform the roadmap\n\n - Design tailored solutions spanning our existing offerings, customizations to those offerings, bespoke integrations built on top of our platform, or hands-on work directly in the customer's codebase\n\n - Scope and build proof-of-concepts that demonstrate technical feasibility and win the deal\n\n - Own a clean, structured handoff to our Implementation team — delivering PoCs, solution design docs, and knowledge transfer sessions that ensure what was promised gets built\n\n - Execute the pre-sales playbook — discovery frameworks, solution templates, PoC standards, and handoff runbooks — and contribute improvements back to the team as you learn what works\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 4+ years in a technical pre-sales role (solutions engineering or solutions architecture) at a B2B API or infrastructure company\n\n - Proven track record executing the technical pre-sales motion — discovery, solution design, PoC delivery, and deal-winning\n\n - Fluency with REST/WebSocket APIs, auth patterns (OAuth, JWT), webhook architecture, and integration debugging\n\n - Experience designing and building complex integrations for technical buyers at fintechs, banks, or neobanks — including customizations and bespoke work\n\n - Strong knowledge transfer skills — you know how to package a solution design so an implementation team can execute it faithfully\n\n - Clear, structured communicator who can run a discovery call, a design review, and a handoff debrief back to back\n\n - Experience writing RFPs and documenting solution approaches that clearly communicate how our product and our customizations will solve a customer's problem\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Crypto domain knowledge — trading, custody, KYC, staking, fiat ramp mechanics\n\n - Experience with embedded finance or crypto-as-a-service products\n\n - Experience with Coast and building out proof of concept sales demos inside Coast\n\n - Hands-on with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) for rapid prototyping\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are recruiting for a Principal Compliance Associate to support compliance activities across both a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), playing a key role within the European-focused Compliance team.
This role is suited to a self-starter who is comfortable operating as a strategic partner to the business, with the capability to scale a robust compliance framework in a fast-moving environment.
You will report to EU Compliance leadership and work closely with global stakeholders (Operations, Product, Engineering, Finance, Risk) and Kraken’s broader Compliance teams.
Own and deliver BAU compliance support across IE-regulated entities, including activities subject to CASP and EMI requirements, and relevant conduct and market integrity considerations
Maintain and enhance the IE-regulated entities compliance framework (policies, procedures, governance materials, reporting calendar) to reflect business changes and IE regulatory expectations
Act as a trusted partner to Product, Design, Engineering and Markets teams to assist them to structure and launch products and services and controls
Lead and execute assurance monitoring and testing (risk-based), document findings clearly, and drive pragmatic remediation with accountable owners and timelines
Support regulatory engagement, including responses to information requests, examinations/audits, and routine/periodic reporting obligations where relevant
Review and advise on customer-facing communications and marketing for compliance risk and conduct considerations
Produce reliable management information for senior stakeholders (KRIs, monitoring outcomes, remediation progress, training completion) and assist in preparing reports for Committee and Board meetings on compliance related matters
Provide guidance and monitor outsourced compliance functions (e.g. marketing/complaints) to ensure compliance with CBI/EBA outsourcing guidelines and relevant requirements under MiCA/PSD2/CPC
Develop and deliver compliance training programs, ensuring employees are knowledgeable and aware of their obligations
Provide compliance advisory support and guidance to COs and EU Regional Compliance team on new and existing regulations and rules, best practices and compliance with internal procedures and directives
Ensure all Policies and Procedures are updated and submitted through appropriate governance forums
Contribute to a culture of compliance through training, clear guidance, and practical partnership with the business
5+ years second-line Compliance experience in a regulated bank, crypto exchange or payments firm
Demonstrated ability to effectively analyse risk and apply sound judgement in a timely manner
Experience in crypto-asset services or a strong demonstrated interest, combined with a solid understanding of the regulatory framework
Strong attention to detail and strong organisational skills
Ability to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure.
Strong knowledge of regulations, particularly in MiCAR, PSD2 and CPC requirements
Strong written and communication skills; able to translate regulatory expectations into practical controls and clear guidance
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple workstreams and collaborating cross-functionally
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe are recruiting for a Principal Compliance Associate to support compliance activities across both a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), playing a key role within the European-focused Compliance team.\n\nThis role is suited to a self-starter who is comfortable operating as a strategic partner to the business, with the capability to scale a robust compliance framework in a fast-moving environment.\n\nYou will report to EU Compliance leadership and work closely with global stakeholders (Operations, Product, Engineering, Finance, Risk) and Kraken’s broader Compliance teams.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own and deliver BAU compliance support across IE-regulated entities, including activities subject to CASP and EMI requirements, and relevant conduct and market integrity considerations\n\n - Maintain and enhance the IE-regulated entities compliance framework (policies, procedures, governance materials, reporting calendar) to reflect business changes and IE regulatory expectations\n\n - Act as a trusted partner to Product, Design, Engineering and Markets teams to assist them to structure and launch products and services and controls\n\n - Lead and execute assurance monitoring and testing (risk-based), document findings clearly, and drive pragmatic remediation with accountable owners and timelines\n\n - Support regulatory engagement, including responses to information requests, examinations/audits, and routine/periodic reporting obligations where relevant\n\n - Review and advise on customer-facing communications and marketing for compliance risk and conduct considerations\n\n - Produce reliable management information for senior stakeholders (KRIs, monitoring outcomes, remediation progress, training completion) and assist in preparing reports for Committee and Board meetings on compliance related matters\n\n - Provide guidance and monitor outsourced compliance functions (e.g. marketing/complaints) to ensure compliance with CBI/EBA outsourcing guidelines and relevant requirements under MiCA/PSD2/CPC\n\n - Develop and deliver compliance training programs, ensuring employees are knowledgeable and aware of their obligations\n\n - Provide compliance advisory support and guidance to COs and EU Regional Compliance team on new and existing regulations and rules, best practices and compliance with internal procedures and directives\n\n - Ensure all Policies and Procedures are updated and submitted through appropriate governance forums\n\n - Contribute to a culture of compliance through training, clear guidance, and practical partnership with the business\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years second-line Compliance experience in a regulated bank, crypto exchange or payments firm\n\n - Demonstrated ability to effectively analyse risk and apply sound judgement in a timely manner\n\n - Experience in crypto-asset services or a strong demonstrated interest, combined with a solid understanding of the regulatory framework\n\n - Strong attention to detail and strong organisational skills\n\n - Ability to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure.\n\n - Strong knowledge of regulations, particularly in MiCAR, PSD2 and CPC requirements\n\n - Strong written and communication skills; able to translate regulatory expectations into practical controls and clear guidance\n\n - Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple workstreams and collaborating cross-functionally\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are seeking a skilled & hands-on Senior Security Architect for Kraken Security Labs. Kraken Security Labs provides boutique-style, deeply technical internal security consulting on current and future products.
We don't merely provide high-level guidance but indeed get deeply embedded in the different engineering teams and do not mind hands-on work.
Our projects span from classical infrastructure security projects, over cryptography, web3, and complex Rust projects, to securing our next generation of AI products.
You will work in a small, highly technical team and collaborate with teams all across the company & world.
Design, review & verify robust security architecture in a heterogeneous environment
Conduct thorough security assessments and audits of existing architectures, recommending practical improvements
Stay updated with latest (blockchain) security trends, threats and mitigation techniques
Provide expertise to our blockchain teams, ensuring secure operational practices
Proven experience as an IT security expert, with a strong background in application security
Experience in security testing diverse application
Experience with infrastructure security
Basic familiarity with security frameworks (OWASP, NIST, etc)
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively remotely work with stakeholders across the organization
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe are seeking a skilled & hands-on Senior Security Architect for Kraken Security Labs. 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We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We’re looking for a world-class Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of Kraken in the crypto space. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope and influence: you’ll lead the design direction of complex, high-priority areas within our flagship Kraken app, used and loved by millions of people around the world.
We’re a hardworking team that moves fast and ships with purpose. We’re straight-talking, no-nonsense, and deeply invested in the quality of what we build. We care about craft, we care about our customers, and we care about getting things right.
If you’re excited by ambiguous, high-stakes problems, setting the bar for design excellence, and helping define the future of finance through world-class product experiences, climb aboard.
Set and elevate the design vision across key product areas, defining what great looks like and driving it through execution.
Lead the design of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, turning them into clear, elegant, and scalable user experiences.
Raise the bar for the industry by creating visually rich, forward-thinking designs that elevate Kraken’s brand and set new benchmarks for excellence.
Shape and evolve Kraken’s design system and visual language, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product.
Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, not just execution.
Drive alignment across teams, bringing clarity and direction to cross-functional initiatives.
Mentor and support other designers, contributing to their growth and raising the overall quality of the design team.
Champion a high standard of craft and user experience, influencing stakeholders to uphold excellence across the organization.
Use customer insights, data, and experimentation to inform decisions and continuously improve product outcomes.
Lead design critiques and contribute to a strong culture of feedback, rigor, and continuous improvement.
7+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and impact, particularly in mobile app experiences.
Proven ability to lead design direction for large, complex product areas and deliver high-quality outcomes.
Strong UX and visual design skills, with a track record of solving ambiguous problems with clarity and elegance.
Advanced prototyping skills, with the ability to communicate complex interactions and ideas effectively.
Experience influencing product strategy and cross-functional decision-making at a team or organizational level.
Strong systems thinking, with experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale.
Ability to mentor and elevate other designers through feedback, collaboration, and example.
Data-informed mindset, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to diverse stakeholders.
Deep understanding of human-centered design principles and research methods, and the ability to apply them in complex environments.
Experience designing trading or financial products is a plus.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n \n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n \n\nWe’re looking for a world-class Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of Kraken in the crypto space. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope and influence: you’ll lead the design direction of complex, high-priority areas within our flagship Kraken app, used and loved by millions of people around the world.\n\n \n\nWe’re a hardworking team that moves fast and ships with purpose. We’re straight-talking, no-nonsense, and deeply invested in the quality of what we build. We care about craft, we care about our customers, and we care about getting things right.\n\n \n\nIf you’re excited by ambiguous, high-stakes problems, setting the bar for design excellence, and helping define the future of finance through world-class product experiences, climb aboard.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Set and elevate the design vision across key product areas, defining what great looks like and driving it through execution.\n\n - Lead the design of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, turning them into clear, elegant, and scalable user experiences.\n\n - Raise the bar for the industry by creating visually rich, forward-thinking designs that elevate Kraken’s brand and set new benchmarks for excellence.\n\n - Shape and evolve Kraken’s design system and visual language, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product.\n\n - Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, not just execution.\n\n - Drive alignment across teams, bringing clarity and direction to cross-functional initiatives.\n\n - Mentor and support other designers, contributing to their growth and raising the overall quality of the design team.\n\n - Champion a high standard of craft and user experience, influencing stakeholders to uphold excellence across the organization.\n\n - Use customer insights, data, and experimentation to inform decisions and continuously improve product outcomes.\n\n - Lead design critiques and contribute to a strong culture of feedback, rigor, and continuous improvement.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 7+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and impact, particularly in mobile app experiences.\n\n - Proven ability to lead design direction for large, complex product areas and deliver high-quality outcomes.\n\n - Strong UX and visual design skills, with a track record of solving ambiguous problems with clarity and elegance.\n\n - Advanced prototyping skills, with the ability to communicate complex interactions and ideas effectively.\n\n - Experience influencing product strategy and cross-functional decision-making at a team or organizational level.\n\n - Strong systems thinking, with experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale.\n\n - Ability to mentor and elevate other designers through feedback, collaboration, and example.\n\n - Data-informed mindset, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.\n\n - Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to diverse stakeholders.\n\n - Deep understanding of human-centered design principles and research methods, and the ability to apply them in complex environments.\n\n - Experience designing trading or financial products is a plus.\n\n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"3096a5c6-a4fc-4b09-9953-aefd72d423f3","title":"Web and Brand Designer - Breakout Prop","department":"Design","team":"Design","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"United Arab Emirates","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United Arab Emirates"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-29T14:20:32.186+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/3096a5c6-a4fc-4b09-9953-aefd72d423f3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/3096a5c6-a4fc-4b09-9953-aefd72d423f3/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Breakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.
You will own design for Breakout across web, lifecycle, and brand, with web as the clear priority. This is a hands-on, in-the-trenches role, not a manager role. You are not here to manage designers. You are here to design the web pages and marketing assets that bring new traders to Breakout, and to build the systems that let the rest of the team design without you.
Reporting directly to the VP of Growth, you will own the design of our website and core conversion flows, then carry that craft into the wider marketing surface: lifecycle email, organic social, and the brand system that holds it all together. Web is the priority, and because you own the website end-to-end, strong UX and conversion instincts are essential — how pages are structured, how visitors move through them, and how that turns into signups. Everything else compounds off the same foundation.
The part that makes this role different is AI. We want someone who builds scalable design systems with AI so the wider team can self-serve. Instead of being the bottleneck for every page, slide, banner, and email, you will design the components, templates, prompts, and guardrails that let Conversion, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations produce on-brand work on their own — and you will keep raising the ceiling on what those systems can do.
You will work side-by-side with our Conversion, Content, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations teammates, and with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale helps. You will turn copy into pages, ideas into prototypes, and one-off requests into reusable systems.
We are looking for a designer who is fluent in AI tooling and energised by it, not threatened by it. Someone who treats Claude Design, Figma, and the current generation of AI design tools as force multipliers, and who would rather build the machine that makes a hundred assets than hand-make all hundred.
The opportunity
Own web design and UX end-to-end. Design the Breakout website, landing pages, and conversion flows, owning the UX and information architecture from first wireframe to dev-ready handoff. This is where most of your time goes.
Build the AI design system that lets the team self-serve. Turn our highest-friction, highest-volume design requests into components, templates, prompts, and automations the wider team can run without you. The goal is simple: stop being the bottleneck.
Extend design across the marketing surface. Take the same system into lifecycle email, organic social, and campaign visuals so everything reads as one brand, no matter who shipped it.
Own and evolve the brand system. Maintain and govern Breakout's brand guidelines, component library, and asset toolkit so the brand stays consistent as output scales across the team.
Use AI as your primary production engine. Claude Design, Figma (including Figma Make), and Nano Banana Pro are examples of what we use today — we want you to come in, recommend the right stack, and use it to take us from idea to high-fidelity output in hours, not weeks.
Prototype fast. Turn copy and concepts into clickable, code-backed prototypes the team can react to and test, rather than static mockups that stall in review.
Partner with engineering on a clean handoff. Work closely with our developers on the website build and component implementation so what you design is what ships.
Set the design quality bar. Define what good looks like for Breakout across web, email, and social, and keep raising it as AI tooling improves.
Partner with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale and systems accelerate what you are doing at Breakout, and share back what you build.
Document your systems for the whole org. Turn what you build into guidelines, prompt libraries, and how-tos that make self-serve design actually stick.
What you bring
5+ years of hands-on web and digital design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped web and marketing design work in a fast-moving environment.
Web UX and conversion first. Deep command of website UX: information architecture, responsive layout, design systems, interaction and conversion design, and dev-ready handoff in Figma. You understand how design choices move conversion.
Strong, demonstrable AI design skills. You already design with AI day to day. Experience with Claude Design and other AI visual design tools is essential — for example Figma Make / Figma AI and Nano Banana Pro.
A systems builder, not a one-off maker. You think in components, templates, and reusable patterns. You have built design systems or tooling that let other people produce on-brand work without you.
Range across the marketing surface. Comfortable designing not just web, but lifecycle email, organic social, and brand assets, and making them feel like one system.
Brand sensibility without preciousness. You can hold and evolve a brand while the team ships fast, keeping things consistent without slowing them down.
Prototyping chops. You can produce clickable, code-backed prototypes (HTML/CSS comfort or AI-assisted code is a plus) so ideas can be tested, not just imagined.
Strong collaborator and communicator. Clean handoffs to engineering, fast in Slack threads, and able to brief and enable non-designers to use the systems you build.
Bias to ship. You do not wait for permission to prototype. You propose, build, and iterate.
Crypto-native or genuinely curious about crypto, trading, and prop, with a drive to help us define the category.
Nice to have
Performance creative design — experience designing and iterating paid ad creative (static, motion, and video) at volume.
Motion and video skills (After Effects, Rive, or AI motion tools).
Front-end coding ability (HTML/CSS/React, or comfort shipping via AI code tools like v0 or Lovable).
Experience in crypto, fintech, trading, or another regulated, high-intent category.
Experience building or running a design system used by a cross-functional team at scale.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\n\n\nBreakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.\n\n \n\nYou will own design for Breakout across web, lifecycle, and brand, with web as the clear priority. This is a hands-on, in-the-trenches role, not a manager role. You are not here to manage designers. You are here to design the web pages and marketing assets that bring new traders to Breakout, and to build the systems that let the rest of the team design without you.\n\n\n\nReporting directly to the VP of Growth, you will own the design of our website and core conversion flows, then carry that craft into the wider marketing surface: lifecycle email, organic social, and the brand system that holds it all together. Web is the priority, and because you own the website end-to-end, strong UX and conversion instincts are essential — how pages are structured, how visitors move through them, and how that turns into signups. Everything else compounds off the same foundation.\n\n\n\nThe part that makes this role different is AI. We want someone who builds scalable design systems with AI so the wider team can self-serve. Instead of being the bottleneck for every page, slide, banner, and email, you will design the components, templates, prompts, and guardrails that let Conversion, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations produce on-brand work on their own — and you will keep raising the ceiling on what those systems can do.\n\n\n\nYou will work side-by-side with our Conversion, Content, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations teammates, and with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale helps. You will turn copy into pages, ideas into prototypes, and one-off requests into reusable systems.\n\n\n\nWe are looking for a designer who is fluent in AI tooling and energised by it, not threatened by it. Someone who treats Claude Design, Figma, and the current generation of AI design tools as force multipliers, and who would rather build the machine that makes a hundred assets than hand-make all hundred.\n\n \n\nThe opportunity\n\n - Own web design and UX end-to-end. Design the Breakout website, landing pages, and conversion flows, owning the UX and information architecture from first wireframe to dev-ready handoff. This is where most of your time goes.\n\n - Build the AI design system that lets the team self-serve. Turn our highest-friction, highest-volume design requests into components, templates, prompts, and automations the wider team can run without you. The goal is simple: stop being the bottleneck.\n\n - Extend design across the marketing surface. Take the same system into lifecycle email, organic social, and campaign visuals so everything reads as one brand, no matter who shipped it.\n\n - Own and evolve the brand system. Maintain and govern Breakout's brand guidelines, component library, and asset toolkit so the brand stays consistent as output scales across the team.\n\n - Use AI as your primary production engine. Claude Design, Figma (including Figma Make), and Nano Banana Pro are examples of what we use today — we want you to come in, recommend the right stack, and use it to take us from idea to high-fidelity output in hours, not weeks.\n\n - Prototype fast. Turn copy and concepts into clickable, code-backed prototypes the team can react to and test, rather than static mockups that stall in review.\n\n - Partner with engineering on a clean handoff. Work closely with our developers on the website build and component implementation so what you design is what ships.\n\n - Set the design quality bar. Define what good looks like for Breakout across web, email, and social, and keep raising it as AI tooling improves.\n\n - Partner with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale and systems accelerate what you are doing at Breakout, and share back what you build.\n\n - Document your systems for the whole org. Turn what you build into guidelines, prompt libraries, and how-tos that make self-serve design actually stick.\n \n\nWhat you bring\n\n - 5+ years of hands-on web and digital design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped web and marketing design work in a fast-moving environment.\n\n - Web UX and conversion first. Deep command of website UX: information architecture, responsive layout, design systems, interaction and conversion design, and dev-ready handoff in Figma. You understand how design choices move conversion.\n\n - Strong, demonstrable AI design skills. You already design with AI day to day. Experience with Claude Design and other AI visual design tools is essential — for example Figma Make / Figma AI and Nano Banana Pro.\n\n - A systems builder, not a one-off maker. You think in components, templates, and reusable patterns. You have built design systems or tooling that let other people produce on-brand work without you.\n\n - Range across the marketing surface. Comfortable designing not just web, but lifecycle email, organic social, and brand assets, and making them feel like one system.\n\n - Brand sensibility without preciousness. You can hold and evolve a brand while the team ships fast, keeping things consistent without slowing them down.\n\n - Prototyping chops. You can produce clickable, code-backed prototypes (HTML/CSS comfort or AI-assisted code is a plus) so ideas can be tested, not just imagined.\n\n - Strong collaborator and communicator. Clean handoffs to engineering, fast in Slack threads, and able to brief and enable non-designers to use the systems you build.\n\n - Bias to ship. You do not wait for permission to prototype. You propose, build, and iterate.\n\n - Crypto-native or genuinely curious about crypto, trading, and prop, with a drive to help us define the category.\n \n\nNice to have\n\n - Performance creative design — experience designing and iterating paid ad creative (static, motion, and video) at volume.\n\n - Motion and video skills (After Effects, Rive, or AI motion tools).\n\n - Front-end coding ability (HTML/CSS/React, or comfort shipping via AI code tools like v0 or Lovable).\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, trading, or another regulated, high-intent category.\n\n - Experience building or running a design system used by a cross-functional team at scale.\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"3544516a-ad0b-4aaf-8ee4-5744883985c1","title":"AI Agents Solutions Architect - Finance","department":"Engineering","team":"AI & Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-25T19:06:55.088+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/3544516a-ad0b-4aaf-8ee4-5744883985c1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/3544516a-ad0b-4aaf-8ee4-5744883985c1/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken's Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto-native asset reconciliation.
As financial complexity grows with Kraken's global footprint, this role architectures and provides hands-on building to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations. Errors carry audit, SOX, security ,and regulatory consequences.
You will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI-native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:
Evaluate how financial work currently flows across the organization, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.
Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems including NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.
Benchmark current operations against best-in-class practices and emerging AI capabilities to build the Finance automation roadmap, prioritized by operational leverage and regulatory risk.
Work directly with accounting, FP&A, treasury, and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into buildable automation requirements.
Design the long-term architecture for an AI-native finance operating system. Define how agentic systems interact with financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and control and reporting frameworks.
Evaluate Kraken's existing finance systems stack from first principles, including platforms and the interfaces and data flows between them. Identify opportunities to simplify the stack, reduce manual intervention, and define a scalable target architecture.
Build an agentic finance layer that runs alongside the existing stack today, automating workflows while defining the migration path toward a more scalable, AI-native architecture over time.
Deploy production-grade agentic workflows that automate finance operations: reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.
Build using modern AI tooling including Claude and Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, and MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
Integrate internal and external systems by connecting APIs, data sources, and tools into unified automated workflows that deliver real operational leverage.
Maintain human oversight where appropriate. Design for auditability and control integrity, not just efficiency.
Establish guardrails that allow automation and agent behavior to operate safely in a SOX-regulated financial environment. Define which controls are maintained, which are redesigned, and how workflow scope preserves control integrity.
Build frameworks covering data classification, auditability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, failure detection, rollback mechanisms, regulatory compliance, and audit-ready design documentation.
Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls, and audit logging confirmed.
Serve as the Finance domain representative in Kraken's Automate Everything Center of Excellence, contributing to governance standards and cross-functional build alignment.
Create reusable frameworks, workflow templates, and documentation so that future Finance team members can safely build on top of the platform without relying on a single specialist.
Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption and operational independence, not just delivery.
Build metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI from automation and AI initiatives.
Provide leadership reporting on operational improvements, risk posture, and the finance platform roadmap.
This role is designed for a technical builder and systems architect who has already deployed agentic systems in production.
Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments used by others, not just experimentation or internal demos.
Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi-agent system design, and the failure modes of autonomous AI workflows in high-stakes operational environments.
Strong systems architecture capability: able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.
Hands-on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
Strong domain knowledge of finance operations including close processes, reconciliations, treasury, financial reporting, and controls in a regulated environment.
Experience deploying automation in a SOX-regulated or equivalent compliance environment, with demonstrated understanding of which controls must be preserved and how to design automation that maintains audit integrity.
Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.
Strong communicator who can bridge finance, technical, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment.
Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high level of ownership and bias toward execution.
Experience with Finance systems stack or equivalent enterprise platforms: NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, or Lukka.
Background as a Head of Product or Head of Engineering at an AI-native company, AI systems architect, or founder or early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.
Familiarity with crypto-native financial infrastructure including digital asset custody, on-chain reconciliation, and blockchain-based accounting workflows.
Experience in high-velocity or resource-constrained environments: startup, PE-backed company, or an understaffed finance team where you had to build the system yourself.
Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in a financial services context.
Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken's Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto-native asset reconciliation.\n\nAs financial complexity grows with Kraken's global footprint, this role architectures and provides hands-on building to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations. Errors carry audit, SOX, security ,and regulatory consequences.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n \n\nYou will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI-native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:\n\n \n\n\nASSESS AND MAP FINANCE OPERATIONS\n\n - Evaluate how financial work currently flows across the organization, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.\n\n - Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems including NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.\n\n - Benchmark current operations against best-in-class practices and emerging AI capabilities to build the Finance automation roadmap, prioritized by operational leverage and regulatory risk.\n\n - Work directly with accounting, FP&A, treasury, and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into buildable automation requirements.\n\n\nARCHITECT THE AGENTIC FINANCE PLATFORM\n\n - Design the long-term architecture for an AI-native finance operating system. Define how agentic systems interact with financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and control and reporting frameworks.\n\n - Evaluate Kraken's existing finance systems stack from first principles, including platforms and the interfaces and data flows between them. Identify opportunities to simplify the stack, reduce manual intervention, and define a scalable target architecture.\n\n - Build an agentic finance layer that runs alongside the existing stack today, automating workflows while defining the migration path toward a more scalable, AI-native architecture over time.\n\n \n\n\nBUILD AND DEPLOY PRODUCTION FINANCE AUTOMATION\n\n - Deploy production-grade agentic workflows that automate finance operations: reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.\n\n - Build using modern AI tooling including Claude and Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, and MCP or similar agent coordination layers.\n\n - Integrate internal and external systems by connecting APIs, data sources, and tools into unified automated workflows that deliver real operational leverage.\n\n - Maintain human oversight where appropriate. Design for auditability and control integrity, not just efficiency.\n\n \n\n\nOWN AI GOVERNANCE FOR FINANCE\n\n - Establish guardrails that allow automation and agent behavior to operate safely in a SOX-regulated financial environment. Define which controls are maintained, which are redesigned, and how workflow scope preserves control integrity.\n\n - Build frameworks covering data classification, auditability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, failure detection, rollback mechanisms, regulatory compliance, and audit-ready design documentation.\n\n - Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls, and audit logging confirmed.\n\n - Serve as the Finance domain representative in Kraken's Automate Everything Center of Excellence, contributing to governance standards and cross-functional build alignment.\n\n \n\n\nBUILD THE FOUNDATION FOR AI-NATIVE FINANCE\n\n - Create reusable frameworks, workflow templates, and documentation so that future Finance team members can safely build on top of the platform without relying on a single specialist.\n\n - Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption and operational independence, not just delivery.\n\n - Build metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI from automation and AI initiatives.\n\n - Provide leadership reporting on operational improvements, risk posture, and the finance platform roadmap.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n \n\nThis role is designed for a technical builder and systems architect who has already deployed agentic systems in production.\n\n \n\n - Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments used by others, not just experimentation or internal demos.\n\n - Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi-agent system design, and the failure modes of autonomous AI workflows in high-stakes operational environments.\n\n - Strong systems architecture capability: able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.\n\n - Hands-on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.\n\n - Strong domain knowledge of finance operations including close processes, reconciliations, treasury, financial reporting, and controls in a regulated environment.\n\n - Experience deploying automation in a SOX-regulated or equivalent compliance environment, with demonstrated understanding of which controls must be preserved and how to design automation that maintains audit integrity.\n\n - Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.\n\n - Strong communicator who can bridge finance, technical, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment.\n\n - Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high level of ownership and bias toward execution.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience with Finance systems stack or equivalent enterprise platforms: NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, or Lukka.\n\n - Background as a Head of Product or Head of Engineering at an AI-native company, AI systems architect, or founder or early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.\n\n - Familiarity with crypto-native financial infrastructure including digital asset custody, on-chain reconciliation, and blockchain-based accounting workflows.\n\n - Experience in high-velocity or resource-constrained environments: startup, PE-backed company, or an understaffed finance team where you had to build the system yourself.\n\n - Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in a financial services context.\n\n - Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$127.2K – $254.4K","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$127.2K - $254.4K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"3d1d75c7-f6d7-4a0e-896d-ba1175f5af5f","tierSummary":"$127.2K – $254.4K","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"f6116713-3b81-427d-ab21-d691061ba2b2","summary":"$127.2K – $254.4K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400}]}},{"id":"355a8c6d-97da-464f-bcf4-91f01aaf7b40","title":"Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II) - Pro","department":"Engineering","team":"QA / Testing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Poland","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Uruguay","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Uruguay"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Costa Rica","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Costa Rica"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Slovenia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovenia"}}},{"location":"Paraguay","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Paraguay"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Estonia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Estonia"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}},{"location":"Slovakia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovakia"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-02T09:33:24.357+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/355a8c6d-97da-464f-bcf4-91f01aaf7b40","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/355a8c6d-97da-464f-bcf4-91f01aaf7b40/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Team
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in Rust and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure.
As an SDET II within Kraken Pro, you'll operate as an experienced individual contributor focused on quality engineering, automation, and developer productivity.
You'll own significant areas of Kraken's testing infrastructure, automation frameworks, and CI/CD tooling while partnering closely with engineers to improve reliability, testability, and release confidence across the Pro organisation.
Depending on the team or product area you join, you may work on matching engine services, market data infrastructure, external APIs, Futures and Derivatives systems, and other areas of the Pro trading stack.
This is a backend-focused role requiring strong engineering depth, a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to drive quality improvements across complex distributed systems.
Design, build, and own automated testing frameworks covering backend APIs, integrations, and trading workflows.
Drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and engineering productivity.
Review technical designs and merge requests, identifying quality, reliability, and testability risks early.
Investigate and resolve complex failures across distributed systems and trading infrastructure.
Define automation approaches and testing strategies for new products and services.
Mentor engineers and contribute to raising quality engineering standards across the team.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.
Partner with engineering leaders to continuously improve quality, reliability, and release processes.
Strong Python/Rust/C++ skills with experience building production-quality automation frameworks, tooling, or internal engineering systems.
Deep backend and API testing experience across REST, WebSocket, and protocols such as gRPC or FIX, including distributed systems.
Experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and containerised environments.
Experience within trading systems or other real-time, high-availability environments, with strong understanding of reliability, latency, and system behaviour.
Strong understanding of trading concepts including order lifecycle, execution flows, margin, balances, and exchange mechanics.
Demonstrated ability to investigate complex system failures and collaborate with engineers to drive resolution.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, or MCP integrations to improve engineering productivity.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions and mentor other engineers.
OUR COMMITMENT
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.
STAY CONNECTED
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/
Kraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com
Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\nThe Team\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nThe Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in Rust and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure. https://blog.kraken.com/post/17936/performance-at-kraken/\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nAs an SDET II within Kraken Pro, you'll operate as an experienced individual contributor focused on quality engineering, automation, and developer productivity.\n\nYou'll own significant areas of Kraken's testing infrastructure, automation frameworks, and CI/CD tooling while partnering closely with engineers to improve reliability, testability, and release confidence across the Pro organisation.\n\nDepending on the team or product area you join, you may work on matching engine services, market data infrastructure, external APIs, Futures and Derivatives systems, and other areas of the Pro trading stack.\n\nThis is a backend-focused role requiring strong engineering depth, a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to drive quality improvements across complex distributed systems.\n\n - Design, build, and own automated testing frameworks covering backend APIs, integrations, and trading workflows.\n\n - Drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and engineering productivity.\n\n - Review technical designs and merge requests, identifying quality, reliability, and testability risks early.\n\n - Investigate and resolve complex failures across distributed systems and trading infrastructure.\n\n - Define automation approaches and testing strategies for new products and services.\n\n - Mentor engineers and contribute to raising quality engineering standards across the team.\n\n - Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.\n\n - Partner with engineering leaders to continuously improve quality, reliability, and release processes.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Strong Python/Rust/C++ skills with experience building production-quality automation frameworks, tooling, or internal engineering systems.\n\n - Deep backend and API testing experience across REST, WebSocket, and protocols such as gRPC or FIX, including distributed systems.\n\n - Experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and containerised environments.\n\n - Experience within trading systems or other real-time, high-availability environments, with strong understanding of reliability, latency, and system behaviour.\n\n - Strong understanding of trading concepts including order lifecycle, execution flows, margin, balances, and exchange mechanics.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to investigate complex system failures and collaborate with engineers to drive resolution.\n\n - Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, or MCP integrations to improve engineering productivity.\n\n - Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions and mentor other engineers.\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\nApplications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.\n\n\n\nSTAY CONNECTED\n\n\n\nTwitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\nKraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"36826495-d999-4aa8-b009-0777f6ed574d","title":"Senior SOX Auditor – Business Process Controls","department":"Risk & Audit","team":"Risk & Audit","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Canada","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-08T14:32:03.551+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/36826495-d999-4aa8-b009-0777f6ed574d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/36826495-d999-4aa8-b009-0777f6ed574d/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Payward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.
This role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of business process SOX controls. You will assess whether controls over revenue, financial close, and treasury are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on.
You will lead Internal Audit’s business process SOX controls testing program, building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where revenue includes digital asset trading, staking, and custody fees, where treasury manages both fiat and crypto assets, and the financial reporting landscape is evolving in real time. If you want a SOX role where the accounting is interesting and the controls are consequential, this is it.
Responsibilities span the following areas:
SOX business process controls testing
Lead the execution of independent controls testing across business process areas including revenue, financial close, and treasury.
Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls, document testing procedures and results, and ensure workpapers meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.
Validate the completeness and accuracy of Information Used in Controls (IUC) and Information Produced by the Entity (IPE), ensuring the reliability of data underpinning control performance.
Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for business process SOX testing.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency.
Remediation validation & issue management
Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across business process control areas.
Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.
Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.
Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.
Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.
Stakeholder engagement & reporting
Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for business process control owners across Finance, Accounting, and Treasury.
Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on business process SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.
Partner with the IT SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.
8+ years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to business process controls testing.
CPA certification required.
Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or digital asset accounting — including revenue recognition for trading, staking, or custody services.
Strong knowledge of US GAAP, SOX compliance requirements, COSO framework, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to business process controls.
Hands-on experience testing controls across revenue, financial close, treasury, or other core financial reporting processes.
Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.
Effective communicator who can translate audit findings and control observations for control owners, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.
Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.
Exposure to global regulatory environments and multi-entity control structures.
Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nPayward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.\n\n\n\nThis role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of business process SOX controls. You will assess whether controls over revenue, financial close, and treasury are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nYou will lead Internal Audit’s business process SOX controls testing program, building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where revenue includes digital asset trading, staking, and custody fees, where treasury manages both fiat and crypto assets, and the financial reporting landscape is evolving in real time. If you want a SOX role where the accounting is interesting and the controls are consequential, this is it.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities span the following areas:\n\nSOX business process controls testing\n\n - Lead the execution of independent controls testing across business process areas including revenue, financial close, and treasury.\n\n - Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls, document testing procedures and results, and ensure workpapers meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.\n\n - Validate the completeness and accuracy of Information Used in Controls (IUC) and Information Produced by the Entity (IPE), ensuring the reliability of data underpinning control performance.\n\n - Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for business process SOX testing.\n\n - Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency.\n\n\n\nRemediation validation & issue management\n\n - Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across business process control areas.\n\n - Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.\n\n - Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.\n\n - Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.\n\n - Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.\n\n\n\nStakeholder engagement & reporting\n\n - Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for business process control owners across Finance, Accounting, and Treasury.\n\n - Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on business process SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.\n\n - Partner with the IT SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to business process controls testing.\n\n - CPA certification required.\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or digital asset accounting — including revenue recognition for trading, staking, or custody services.\n\n - Strong knowledge of US GAAP, SOX compliance requirements, COSO framework, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to business process controls.\n\n - Hands-on experience testing controls across revenue, financial close, treasury, or other core financial reporting processes.\n\n - Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.\n\n - Effective communicator who can translate audit findings and control observations for control owners, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.\n\n - Exposure to global regulatory environments and multi-entity control structures.\n\n - Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Team
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in Rust and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure.
As an SDET within Kraken Pro, you'll be embedded directly within engineering teams as a software engineer focused on quality.
You'll help build and maintain automated testing solutions, CI/CD tooling, and quality engineering workflows for complex backend systems and APIs. Working closely with product engineers, you'll contribute to ensuring the reliability, performance, and correctness of Kraken's trading platform.
Depending on the team or product area you join, you may work on matching engine services, market data infrastructure, external APIs, Futures and Derivatives systems, and other areas of the Pro trading stack.
This is a backend-focused role requiring strong automation skills, solid engineering fundamentals, and a passion for building quality into software from the start.
Design, build, and maintain automated tests covering backend APIs, integrations, and trading workflows.
Contribute to automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and quality tooling.
Review code changes and identify quality and testability risks.
Investigate test failures and production issues alongside software engineers.
Perform exploratory testing focused on edge cases and failure scenarios.
Validate backend services and APIs throughout development and release cycles.
Leveraging AI tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, and MCP integrations.
Collaborate with engineers and other SDETs to improve testing practices and automation coverage.
Strong Python/Rust/C++ skills with experience building automated tests and tooling.
Experience testing backend systems and APIs using REST, WebSocket, gRPC, FIX, or similar technologies.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and containerised environments such as Docker.
Experience within trading systems, fintech, exchanges, payments, betting, or other real-time, high-availability environments.
Understanding of trading concepts such as order lifecycle, execution flows, balances, margin, and exchange mechanics.
Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to investigate complex system issues.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.
Strong communication and collaboration skills within engineering teams.
OUR COMMITMENT
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.
STAY CONNECTED
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/
Kraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com
Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in Rust and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure. https://blog.kraken.com/post/17936/performance-at-kraken/\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nAs an SDET within Kraken Pro, you'll be embedded directly within engineering teams as a software engineer focused on quality.\n\nYou'll help build and maintain automated testing solutions, CI/CD tooling, and quality engineering workflows for complex backend systems and APIs. Working closely with product engineers, you'll contribute to ensuring the reliability, performance, and correctness of Kraken's trading platform.\n\nDepending on the team or product area you join, you may work on matching engine services, market data infrastructure, external APIs, Futures and Derivatives systems, and other areas of the Pro trading stack.\n\nThis is a backend-focused role requiring strong automation skills, solid engineering fundamentals, and a passion for building quality into software from the start.\n\n - Design, build, and maintain automated tests covering backend APIs, integrations, and trading workflows.\n\n - Contribute to automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and quality tooling.\n\n - Review code changes and identify quality and testability risks.\n\n - Investigate test failures and production issues alongside software engineers.\n\n - Perform exploratory testing focused on edge cases and failure scenarios.\n\n - Validate backend services and APIs throughout development and release cycles.\n\n - Leveraging AI tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, and MCP integrations.\n\n - Collaborate with engineers and other SDETs to improve testing practices and automation coverage.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Strong Python/Rust/C++ skills with experience building automated tests and tooling.\n\n - Experience testing backend systems and APIs using REST, WebSocket, gRPC, FIX, or similar technologies.\n\n - Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and containerised environments such as Docker.\n\n - Experience within trading systems, fintech, exchanges, payments, betting, or other real-time, high-availability environments.\n\n - Understanding of trading concepts such as order lifecycle, execution flows, balances, margin, and exchange mechanics.\n\n - Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to investigate complex system issues.\n\n - Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills within engineering teams.\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\nApplications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.\n\n\n\nSTAY CONNECTED\n\nTwitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\nKraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Consumer Mobile team builds the Kraken app, the interface millions of people use to interact with their money. We work in React Native and care deeply about how the product feels, not just whether it functions. A trade confirmation should feel instantaneous. A portfolio should feel alive. Navigation should feel effortless. These details directly impact trust, and trust is everything in crypto.
Most companies treat design and engineering as two practices that translate to each other. We're hiring someone who treats them as one craft. The translation step is where most products lose what makes them feel good.
You'll own the feel of the Kraken app: the half-second a trade confirms, the way a chart loads, how a sheet rises from the bottom of the screen and lands where it physically should. On a product where people move their savings, moments like that build trust.
This is a mobile-first role on a React Native codebase. We work in Reanimated and Skia, bridge to native when we need to, and sweat the split between the JS thread and the UI thread.
Own the motion and interaction layer of the Kraken app. Easing, springs, gestures, transitions, haptics, sound. The perceptual surface from cold start to confirmation.
Evolve the mobile design system. You'll own the components other engineers reach for (gesture handlers, transition primitives, animated containers, motion tokens) and the standards that govern them.
Partner closely with product designers, challenging and elevating motion and interaction design from concept through implementation
Profile and optimise rendering performance, especially on lower-end Android devices where frame drops are unforgivable
Contribute to architectural decisions that affect UI responsiveness: state management, render cycles, and data flow into the view layer
Raise the bar for what 'great' means across the mobile org by review, by example, and by writing the patterns that make doing the right thing easier than doing the wrong thing.
A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of. We don't care which format; we care that we can see your craft.
Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went.
Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it.
Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive.
AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are.
Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads.
React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI.
Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call.
A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used.
A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code.
High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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We work in React Native and care deeply about how the product feels, not just whether it functions. A trade confirmation should feel instantaneous. A portfolio should feel alive. Navigation should feel effortless. These details directly impact trust, and trust is everything in crypto.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nMost companies treat design and engineering as two practices that translate to each other. We're hiring someone who treats them as one craft. The translation step is where most products lose what makes them feel good.\n\nYou'll own the feel of the Kraken app: the half-second a trade confirms, the way a chart loads, how a sheet rises from the bottom of the screen and lands where it physically should. On a product where people move their savings, moments like that build trust.\n\nThis is a mobile-first role on a React Native codebase. We work in Reanimated and Skia, bridge to native when we need to, and sweat the split between the JS thread and the UI thread.\n\n - Own the motion and interaction layer of the Kraken app. Easing, springs, gestures, transitions, haptics, sound. The perceptual surface from cold start to confirmation.\n\n - Evolve the mobile design system. You'll own the components other engineers reach for (gesture handlers, transition primitives, animated containers, motion tokens) and the standards that govern them.\n\n - Partner closely with product designers, challenging and elevating motion and interaction design from concept through implementation\n\n - Profile and optimise rendering performance, especially on lower-end Android devices where frame drops are unforgivable\n\n - Contribute to architectural decisions that affect UI responsiveness: state management, render cycles, and data flow into the view layer\n\n - Raise the bar for what 'great' means across the mobile org by review, by example, and by writing the patterns that make doing the right thing easier than doing the wrong thing.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of. We don't care which format; we care that we can see your craft.\n\n - Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went.\n\n - Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it.\n\n - Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive.\n\n - AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are.\n\n - Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI.\n\n - Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call.\n\n - A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used.\n\n - A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code.\n\n - High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing.\n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We’re looking for a world-class AI Video Editor who thrives at the intersection of creativity, performance marketing, and cutting-edge technology. This person will play a pivotal role in scaling Kraken’s global performance marketing engine by generating dozens of highly engaging video assets across 10+ languages and regions.
You’ll report directly to the Director of Performance Marketing and work closely with Growth & Performance Marketing, Creative, Content, and Affiliate teams to craft localized, platform-optimized videos for YouTube, Meta, Reddit, X, TikTok, Google UAC, Apple Search Ads, DSPs, CTV, and beyond.
This role requires deep mastery of both traditional editing software (Adobe suite) and advanced AI video tools (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, and other leading platforms). You’ll set the standard for how Kraken creates and scales video performance marketing content globally.
Develop, edit, and produce 35+ performance marketing videos monthly, tailored to specific platforms, audiences, and languages.
Collaborate with Growth Marketing, Affiliate, Brand, and Regional Marketing teams to ideate and execute localized campaigns.
Own the end-to-end video production pipeline — from concept to post-production — leveraging both Adobe Creative Suite and the latest AI-powered video tools.
Ensure brand consistency and compliance across all regions and platforms.
Continuously test and optimize video creative based on data-driven performance insights.
Build scalable video templates and workflows to support rapid localization and high-volume production.
Stay ahead of the curve on AI editing advancements, generative tools, and creative best practices.
Be scrappy and resourceful — always experimenting, finding faster/better ways to deliver content at scale.
Act as a trailblazer within the team: eagerly learn and master new AI video technologies before anyone else, show what’s possible, and train others on tools and workflows they didn’t even know existed.
Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition).
Deep hands-on experience with AI-powered video editors (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, Synthesia, etc.).
Strong understanding of performance marketing creative — especially for short-form, social-first video ads.
Ability to produce videos across multiple formats, languages, and regions at high velocity.
Self-driven and motivated to constantly explore, learn, and experiment with emerging tech.
Strong creative instincts backed by data-driven iteration and A/B testing.
Skilled at storytelling through motion, audio, and design, with sharp attention to detail.
Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders across growth, brand, affiliate, and regional teams.
Thrives in a fast-paced, global remote environment.
Passion for crypto, Web3, and the future of finance — with a drive to help accelerate global adoption.
Experience with 3D and motion graphics (Cinema 4D, Blender, Unreal).
Experience with CTV and long-form ad creative.
Familiarity with sound design, voiceover AI, and localization workflows.
Experience working on affiliate and partner-driven performance campaigns.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe’re looking for a world-class AI Video Editor who thrives at the intersection of creativity, performance marketing, and cutting-edge technology. This person will play a pivotal role in scaling Kraken’s global performance marketing engine by generating dozens of highly engaging video assets across 10+ languages and regions.\n\nYou’ll report directly to the Director of Performance Marketing and work closely with Growth & Performance Marketing, Creative, Content, and Affiliate teams to craft localized, platform-optimized videos for YouTube, Meta, Reddit, X, TikTok, Google UAC, Apple Search Ads, DSPs, CTV, and beyond.\n\nThis role requires deep mastery of both traditional editing software (Adobe suite) and advanced AI video tools (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, and other leading platforms). You’ll set the standard for how Kraken creates and scales video performance marketing content globally.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Develop, edit, and produce 35+ performance marketing videos monthly, tailored to specific platforms, audiences, and languages.\n\n - Collaborate with Growth Marketing, Affiliate, Brand, and Regional Marketing teams to ideate and execute localized campaigns.\n\n - Own the end-to-end video production pipeline — from concept to post-production — leveraging both Adobe Creative Suite and the latest AI-powered video tools.\n\n - Ensure brand consistency and compliance across all regions and platforms.\n\n - Continuously test and optimize video creative based on data-driven performance insights.\n\n - Build scalable video templates and workflows to support rapid localization and high-volume production.\n\n - Stay ahead of the curve on AI editing advancements, generative tools, and creative best practices.\n\n - Be scrappy and resourceful — always experimenting, finding faster/better ways to deliver content at scale.\n\n - Act as a trailblazer within the team: eagerly learn and master new AI video technologies before anyone else, show what’s possible, and train others on tools and workflows they didn’t even know existed.\n\n - Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition).\n\n - Deep hands-on experience with AI-powered video editors (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, Synthesia, etc.).\n\n - Strong understanding of performance marketing creative — especially for short-form, social-first video ads.\n\n - Ability to produce videos across multiple formats, languages, and regions at high velocity.\n\n - Self-driven and motivated to constantly explore, learn, and experiment with emerging tech.\n\n - Strong creative instincts backed by data-driven iteration and A/B testing.\n\n - Skilled at storytelling through motion, audio, and design, with sharp attention to detail.\n\n - Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders across growth, brand, affiliate, and regional teams.\n\n - Thrives in a fast-paced, global remote environment.\n\n - Passion for crypto, Web3, and the future of finance — with a drive to help accelerate global adoption.\n \n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with 3D and motion graphics (Cinema 4D, Blender, Unreal).\n\n - Experience with CTV and long-form ad creative.\n\n - Familiarity with sound design, voiceover AI, and localization workflows.\n\n - Experience working on affiliate and partner-driven performance campaigns.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$83.4K - $166.8K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"e4db758b-7af7-490f-9aaa-509193bc6a5d","tierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"3699f1b0-eb98-41ea-b654-2fcac8c5d41d","summary":"$83.4K – $166.8K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800}]}},{"id":"4276b1b4-ba9e-4298-b8a6-f964f534f69f","title":"Web and Brand Designer - Breakout Prop","department":"Design","team":"Design","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-29T14:20:30.121+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4276b1b4-ba9e-4298-b8a6-f964f534f69f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4276b1b4-ba9e-4298-b8a6-f964f534f69f/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Breakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.
You will own design for Breakout across web, lifecycle, and brand, with web as the clear priority. This is a hands-on, in-the-trenches role, not a manager role. You are not here to manage designers. You are here to design the web pages and marketing assets that bring new traders to Breakout, and to build the systems that let the rest of the team design without you.
Reporting directly to the VP of Growth, you will own the design of our website and core conversion flows, then carry that craft into the wider marketing surface: lifecycle email, organic social, and the brand system that holds it all together. Web is the priority, and because you own the website end-to-end, strong UX and conversion instincts are essential — how pages are structured, how visitors move through them, and how that turns into signups. Everything else compounds off the same foundation.
The part that makes this role different is AI. We want someone who builds scalable design systems with AI so the wider team can self-serve. Instead of being the bottleneck for every page, slide, banner, and email, you will design the components, templates, prompts, and guardrails that let Conversion, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations produce on-brand work on their own — and you will keep raising the ceiling on what those systems can do.
You will work side-by-side with our Conversion, Content, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations teammates, and with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale helps. You will turn copy into pages, ideas into prototypes, and one-off requests into reusable systems.
We are looking for a designer who is fluent in AI tooling and energised by it, not threatened by it. Someone who treats Claude Design, Figma, and the current generation of AI design tools as force multipliers, and who would rather build the machine that makes a hundred assets than hand-make all hundred.
The opportunity
Own web design and UX end-to-end. Design the Breakout website, landing pages, and conversion flows, owning the UX and information architecture from first wireframe to dev-ready handoff. This is where most of your time goes.
Build the AI design system that lets the team self-serve. Turn our highest-friction, highest-volume design requests into components, templates, prompts, and automations the wider team can run without you. The goal is simple: stop being the bottleneck.
Extend design across the marketing surface. Take the same system into lifecycle email, organic social, and campaign visuals so everything reads as one brand, no matter who shipped it.
Own and evolve the brand system. Maintain and govern Breakout's brand guidelines, component library, and asset toolkit so the brand stays consistent as output scales across the team.
Use AI as your primary production engine. Claude Design, Figma (including Figma Make), and Nano Banana Pro are examples of what we use today — we want you to come in, recommend the right stack, and use it to take us from idea to high-fidelity output in hours, not weeks.
Prototype fast. Turn copy and concepts into clickable, code-backed prototypes the team can react to and test, rather than static mockups that stall in review.
Partner with engineering on a clean handoff. Work closely with our developers on the website build and component implementation so what you design is what ships.
Set the design quality bar. Define what good looks like for Breakout across web, email, and social, and keep raising it as AI tooling improves.
Partner with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale and systems accelerate what you are doing at Breakout, and share back what you build.
Document your systems for the whole org. Turn what you build into guidelines, prompt libraries, and how-tos that make self-serve design actually stick.
What you bring
5+ years of hands-on web and digital design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped web and marketing design work in a fast-moving environment.
Web UX and conversion first. Deep command of website UX: information architecture, responsive layout, design systems, interaction and conversion design, and dev-ready handoff in Figma. You understand how design choices move conversion.
Strong, demonstrable AI design skills. You already design with AI day to day. Experience with Claude Design and other AI visual design tools is essential — for example Figma Make / Figma AI and Nano Banana Pro.
A systems builder, not a one-off maker. You think in components, templates, and reusable patterns. You have built design systems or tooling that let other people produce on-brand work without you.
Range across the marketing surface. Comfortable designing not just web, but lifecycle email, organic social, and brand assets, and making them feel like one system.
Brand sensibility without preciousness. You can hold and evolve a brand while the team ships fast, keeping things consistent without slowing them down.
Prototyping chops. You can produce clickable, code-backed prototypes (HTML/CSS comfort or AI-assisted code is a plus) so ideas can be tested, not just imagined.
Strong collaborator and communicator. Clean handoffs to engineering, fast in Slack threads, and able to brief and enable non-designers to use the systems you build.
Bias to ship. You do not wait for permission to prototype. You propose, build, and iterate.
Crypto-native or genuinely curious about crypto, trading, and prop, with a drive to help us define the category.
Nice to have
Performance creative design — experience designing and iterating paid ad creative (static, motion, and video) at volume.
Motion and video skills (After Effects, Rive, or AI motion tools).
Front-end coding ability (HTML/CSS/React, or comfort shipping via AI code tools like v0 or Lovable).
Experience in crypto, fintech, trading, or another regulated, high-intent category.
Experience building or running a design system used by a cross-functional team at scale.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\n \n\nBreakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.\n\n \n\nYou will own design for Breakout across web, lifecycle, and brand, with web as the clear priority. This is a hands-on, in-the-trenches role, not a manager role. You are not here to manage designers. You are here to design the web pages and marketing assets that bring new traders to Breakout, and to build the systems that let the rest of the team design without you.\n\n \n\nReporting directly to the VP of Growth, you will own the design of our website and core conversion flows, then carry that craft into the wider marketing surface: lifecycle email, organic social, and the brand system that holds it all together. Web is the priority, and because you own the website end-to-end, strong UX and conversion instincts are essential — how pages are structured, how visitors move through them, and how that turns into signups. Everything else compounds off the same foundation.\n\n \n\nThe part that makes this role different is AI. We want someone who builds scalable design systems with AI so the wider team can self-serve. Instead of being the bottleneck for every page, slide, banner, and email, you will design the components, templates, prompts, and guardrails that let Conversion, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations produce on-brand work on their own — and you will keep raising the ceiling on what those systems can do.\n\n \n\nYou will work side-by-side with our Conversion, Content, Social, Lifecycle, and Marketing Operations teammates, and with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale helps. You will turn copy into pages, ideas into prototypes, and one-off requests into reusable systems.\n\n \n\nWe are looking for a designer who is fluent in AI tooling and energised by it, not threatened by it. Someone who treats Claude Design, Figma, and the current generation of AI design tools as force multipliers, and who would rather build the machine that makes a hundred assets than hand-make all hundred.\n\n \n\nThe opportunity\n\n - Own web design and UX end-to-end. Design the Breakout website, landing pages, and conversion flows, owning the UX and information architecture from first wireframe to dev-ready handoff. This is where most of your time goes.\n\n - Build the AI design system that lets the team self-serve. Turn our highest-friction, highest-volume design requests into components, templates, prompts, and automations the wider team can run without you. The goal is simple: stop being the bottleneck.\n\n - Extend design across the marketing surface. Take the same system into lifecycle email, organic social, and campaign visuals so everything reads as one brand, no matter who shipped it.\n\n - Own and evolve the brand system. Maintain and govern Breakout's brand guidelines, component library, and asset toolkit so the brand stays consistent as output scales across the team.\n\n - Use AI as your primary production engine. Claude Design, Figma (including Figma Make), and Nano Banana Pro are examples of what we use today — we want you to come in, recommend the right stack, and use it to take us from idea to high-fidelity output in hours, not weeks.\n\n - Prototype fast. Turn copy and concepts into clickable, code-backed prototypes the team can react to and test, rather than static mockups that stall in review.\n\n - Partner with engineering on a clean handoff. Work closely with our developers on the website build and component implementation so what you design is what ships.\n\n - Set the design quality bar. Define what good looks like for Breakout across web, email, and social, and keep raising it as AI tooling improves.\n\n - Partner with Payward's (Kraken's) design and brand teams where their scale and systems accelerate what you are doing at Breakout, and share back what you build.\n\n - Document your systems for the whole org. Turn what you build into guidelines, prompt libraries, and how-tos that make self-serve design actually stick.\n\n \n\nWhat you bring\n\n - 5+ years of hands-on web and digital design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped web and marketing design work in a fast-moving environment.\n\n - Web UX and conversion first. Deep command of website UX: information architecture, responsive layout, design systems, interaction and conversion design, and dev-ready handoff in Figma. You understand how design choices move conversion.\n\n - Strong, demonstrable AI design skills. You already design with AI day to day. Experience with Claude Design and other AI visual design tools is essential — for example Figma Make / Figma AI and Nano Banana Pro.\n\n - A systems builder, not a one-off maker. You think in components, templates, and reusable patterns. You have built design systems or tooling that let other people produce on-brand work without you.\n\n - Range across the marketing surface. Comfortable designing not just web, but lifecycle email, organic social, and brand assets, and making them feel like one system.\n\n - Brand sensibility without preciousness. You can hold and evolve a brand while the team ships fast, keeping things consistent without slowing them down.\n\n - Prototyping chops. You can produce clickable, code-backed prototypes (HTML/CSS comfort or AI-assisted code is a plus) so ideas can be tested, not just imagined.\n\n - Strong collaborator and communicator. Clean handoffs to engineering, fast in Slack threads, and able to brief and enable non-designers to use the systems you build.\n\n - Bias to ship. You do not wait for permission to prototype. You propose, build, and iterate.\n\n - Crypto-native or genuinely curious about crypto, trading, and prop, with a drive to help us define the category.\n\n \n\nNice to have\n\n - Performance creative design — experience designing and iterating paid ad creative (static, motion, and video) at volume.\n\n - Motion and video skills (After Effects, Rive, or AI motion tools).\n\n - Front-end coding ability (HTML/CSS/React, or comfort shipping via AI code tools like v0 or Lovable).\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, trading, or another regulated, high-intent category.\n\n - Experience building or running a design system used by a cross-functional team at scale.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Core Infrastructure Team at Kraken is dedicated to create and manage a robust, secure, and automated infrastructure that is both scalable and cost-effective. This infrastructure will ensure low-latency, high-throughput, and resilience, enabling Kraken to efficiently deliver software and platform solutions to our stakeholders and clients.
As a Technical Project Manager, you will support cross-functional engineering teams in the successful planning, execution, and delivery of mission-critical projects. You’ll work across stakeholders in Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance and Security, ensuring alignment, visibility, and scalability of our critical projects.
This role demands a balance of strategic systems thinking and meticulous attention to detail. You'll work on initiatives spanning infrastructure, orchestration, compliance, security, databases and internal tooling, using a mix of Agile and waterfall approaches where appropriate.
The team embraces hyper-transparency, fostering an environment of open dialogue, candid discussions and constructive feedback, staying adaptable in the ever-evolving crypto industry.
This role is fully remote. We consider candidates in EU and EST US/LATAM timezones.
Project Management & Execution
Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional technical projects within the engineering, security, compliance, facility and datacenters operations.
Build and manage project plans, roadmaps, dashboards, and release timelines.
Coordinate cross-functional teams around strategic priorities and outcomes.
Identify dependencies, manage risks, and unblock teams through creative problem-solving.
Facilitate meetings, retrospectives, planning sessions and lead planning for big initiatives, coordination with stakeholders.
Track KPIs and project health via metrics and dashboards, iterating on reporting for clarity and impact.
Manage intake workflows (feature requests, support channels, KTLO) and ensure requests are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner.
Cross-Team Collaboration & Communication
Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads, and Product Managers to align on requirements, timelines, and project planning.
Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences—including executives—with clear summaries and actionable insights.
Work closely with external vendors when required, ensuring compliance and technical standards.
Process Improvement & Tooling
Improve internal workflows through enhanced Atlassian workflows, AI, automation, self-service and consistent reporting mechanisms.
Drive continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and recommending scalable process changes.
Cultivate a high-performing team environment by sharing project management best practices across teams.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar.
1+ year experience working as an Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, or similar Software Engineer role.
Strong technical acumen, ideally with experience in engineering, infrastructure, security, developer experience, networking in fintech environments.
A data-driven mindset, measuring the effectiveness of our processes and systems to make informed decisions.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to rapidly generate scripts and automate workflows, enabling the efficient development and scaling of internal tools
Experienced with Atlassian Suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery), Slack workflows, and other PM tools.
Proficient in Agile and waterfall methodologies with the judgment to apply context-dependent approaches.
Excellent communicator, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear project plans and status updates.
Self-starter with a track record of independently driving initiatives to completion.
Curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment and iterate.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities in a dynamic industry.
Strong sense of discretion and data sensitivity, particularly within security and compliance domains.
Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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This infrastructure will ensure low-latency, high-throughput, and resilience, enabling Kraken to efficiently deliver software and platform solutions to our stakeholders and clients.\n\nAs a Technical Project Manager, you will support cross-functional engineering teams in the successful planning, execution, and delivery of mission-critical projects. You’ll work across stakeholders in Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance and Security, ensuring alignment, visibility, and scalability of our critical projects.\n\nThis role demands a balance of strategic systems thinking and meticulous attention to detail. You'll work on initiatives spanning infrastructure, orchestration, compliance, security, databases and internal tooling, using a mix of Agile and waterfall approaches where appropriate.\n\nThe team embraces hyper-transparency, fostering an environment of open dialogue, candid discussions and constructive feedback, staying adaptable in the ever-evolving crypto industry.\n\nThis role is fully remote. We consider candidates in EU and EST US/LATAM timezones.\n\n \n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Project Management & Execution\n \n - Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional technical projects within the engineering, security, compliance, facility and datacenters operations.\n \n - Build and manage project plans, roadmaps, dashboards, and release timelines.\n \n - Coordinate cross-functional teams around strategic priorities and outcomes.\n \n - Identify dependencies, manage risks, and unblock teams through creative problem-solving.\n \n - Facilitate meetings, retrospectives, planning sessions and lead planning for big initiatives, coordination with stakeholders.\n \n - Track KPIs and project health via metrics and dashboards, iterating on reporting for clarity and impact.\n \n - Manage intake workflows (feature requests, support channels, KTLO) and ensure requests are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner.\n\n - Cross-Team Collaboration & Communication\n \n - Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads, and Product Managers to align on requirements, timelines, and project planning.\n \n - Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences—including executives—with clear summaries and actionable insights.\n \n - Work closely with external vendors when required, ensuring compliance and technical standards.\n\n - Process Improvement & Tooling\n \n - Improve internal workflows through enhanced Atlassian workflows, AI, automation, self-service and consistent reporting mechanisms.\n \n - Drive continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and recommending scalable process changes.\n \n - Cultivate a high-performing team environment by sharing project management best practices across teams.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar.\n\n - 1+ year experience working as an Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, or similar Software Engineer role.\n\n - Strong technical acumen, ideally with experience in engineering, infrastructure, security, developer experience, networking in fintech environments.\n\n - A data-driven mindset, measuring the effectiveness of our processes and systems to make informed decisions.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to rapidly generate scripts and automate workflows, enabling the efficient development and scaling of internal tools\n\n - Experienced with Atlassian Suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery), Slack workflows, and other PM tools.\n\n - Proficient in Agile and waterfall methodologies with the judgment to apply context-dependent approaches.\n\n - Excellent communicator, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear project plans and status updates.\n\n - Self-starter with a track record of independently driving initiatives to completion.\n\n - Curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment and iterate.\n\n - Comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities in a dynamic industry.\n\n - Strong sense of discretion and data sensitivity, particularly within security and compliance domains.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech.\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
Within Payward Services, Trading-as-a-Service is the product line that powers trading inside partner apps. We help fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms offer their users digital asset trading — spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders — without building exchange infrastructure from scratch. The partner owns the front end and the brand; we run execution, liquidity, and market connectivity underneath, exposed through modular APIs that go live in weeks, not quarters.
We're hiring a Senior PM to drive Trading-as-a-Service. Reporting to the Trading GM, this is a hands-on, builder-first, API-first role. You'll shape what we build, define how partners integrate it, and work directly with clients to make sure the product holds up in real-world deployments. You won't carry a sales quota — but the products you ship directly drive Payward Services revenue.
Own the roadmap and execution across the Trade surfaces — Convert & Trade, PTL-as-a-Service (custodial and non-custodial), Orderbook/CLOB API, Recurring Buys, Limit Orders, and PTL + xStocks (tokenized equities) — and lead the full lifecycle from discovery through build, launch, and iteration
Work directly with partners (fintechs, banks, brokerages, platforms) to understand integration requirements, unblock deployments, and ensure product-market fit
Drive product decisions on trading UX patterns, API design, custody models, and compliance workflows for B2B2C use cases
Treat the API as the product: design the REST/WebSocket surfaces, auth, webhooks, SDKs, and docs that determine whether a partner integrates in weeks or stalls
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Own the metrics that matter: partner integration velocity, trading volume, assets on platform (AOP), end-user activation, and revenue impact
Collaborate with the Derivatives team on jointly-owned crypto derivatives capabilities
Partner with Sales and BD on strategic deals — demos, technical scoping, custom integration planning
6+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time building B2B2C infrastructure — ideally platforms that help companies add trading, brokerage, or financial services to their own apps
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Hands-on experience with trading platforms or exchange infrastructure — order types, execution models, custody, settlement — and what it takes to ship trading products at scale (exchange, brokerage, or trading-infra background strongly preferred)
Technical fluency: you hold your own in architecture discussions, make informed build/buy tradeoffs, and challenge engineering when needed
Experience in regulated financial services, operating within compliance and licensing constraints across multiple jurisdictions
Strong product sense with commercial awareness — you lead with product but understand how roadmap choices drive revenue, without needing a quota to motivate you
Comfort in ambiguity: you move fast, decide with imperfect information, and adapt as the business scales
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Enterprise Risk Team is the backbone of Kraken's risk management framework, serving as a strategic second line of defense across the organization. We have deep visibility into the risk landscape that shapes our business and work cross-functionally to ensure all Krakenites are operating within Kraken's risk appetite while enabling sustainable growth. Our approach is proactive and solutions-driven — we thrive on solving complex problems and delivering effective risk outcomes across the enterprise. This role serves as the Chief Risk Officer (PCF-14) for the regulated entity and is accountable for the design, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness of the enterprise risk management framework.
The Product and Regional Risk Manager lead the risk management function for the regulated entity and will play a critical part in strengthening Kraken's enterprise-wide risk posture, with a focus on risk identification, assessment, and monitoring across our product suite and regional markets. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker who deploys technology solutions — including automation of everything possible consistent with regulatory requirements — to scale the program as a risk-based, operationally effective, data-driven machine. This role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and regional business leads to surface and manage risks that could impact Kraken's clients, operations, and strategic objectives.
Note: This person is the designated Pre-Approval Controlled Function (PCF) under the Central Bank of Ireland's Fitness & Probity regime (PCF 14). Appointment is subject to approval by the CBI and Board of Directors. This role is open only to candidates who are currently based in (or willing to relocate to) and legally authorised to work in the Republic of Ireland.
Conduct and maintain risk assessments and RCSAs across Kraken's core and emerging product lines, identifying key risk exposures and recommending appropriate controls and mitigants
Perform risk assessments for Kraken's regional entities, working with regional and global stakeholders to understand the regulatory, operational, and market risk environment
Contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of Kraken's enterprise risk taxonomy, risk appetite framework, and key risk indicator (KRI) reporting
Own and oversee the regulated entity risk management framework, including risk appetite setting, risk taxonomy, and governance structures. Lead the identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of all material risk types, including operational, regulatory, liquidity, safeguarding, outsourcing, ICT, and conduct risks. Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory frameworks, including MiCAR, E-Money Regulations, and DORA.
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed risk considerations early in the product development lifecycle, providing guidance on risk implications of new features, products, and initiatives
Drive proactive identification and escalation of emerging risks, ensuring timely visibility for senior management and relevant governance bodies
Leverage GRC tooling and data analytics to support risk monitoring, reporting, and the automation of risk program activities at scale
Monitor the risk environment for developments — including MiCAR and broader digital asset regulatory obligations — that may affect Kraken's product or regional risk profile
Serve as the primary point of contact for risk-related engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland and other relevant regulators. Lead the preparation and delivery of risk reporting to the Board and its committees, and support regulatory submissions, reviews, and inspections as required.
Prepare clear, concise risk reporting for senior leadership, risk committees, and relevant governance bodies that articulates the key drivers of Kraken's risk landscape
Operate independently across a broad range of risk activities, adding meaningful value while maintaining a collaborative working style with PCFs and senior management
Foster a culture of risk awareness across the organization by collaborating with cross-functional partners and contributing to risk training and education efforts
7+ years of proven experience in enterprise risk management or a related discipline, ideally within a financial services, fintech, or crypto organization, or a top-tier consulting or audit firm
Solid understanding of risk frameworks and risk assessment methodologies, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in a fast-moving environment
Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments and RCSAs, with the ability to translate complex risk findings into clear, actionable recommendations
Strong familiarity with digital asset markets and MiCAR regulatory obligations
Systems thinker with a track record of leveraging technology, automation, and data-driven approaches to build scalable, operationally effective risk programs
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and derive meaningful risk insights
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce polished deliverables and present findings to senior stakeholders and governance bodies
Proven ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and add value across a broad range of risk activities in a high-growth, fully remote environment
Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Finance teams
Knowledge of the crypto and digital assets landscape is a strong plus — familiarity with Kraken's products and competitive environment
Experience using a GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tool
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe Enterprise Risk Team is the backbone of Kraken's risk management framework, serving as a strategic second line of defense across the organization. We have deep visibility into the risk landscape that shapes our business and work cross-functionally to ensure all Krakenites are operating within Kraken's risk appetite while enabling sustainable growth. Our approach is proactive and solutions-driven — we thrive on solving complex problems and delivering effective risk outcomes across the enterprise. This role serves as the Chief Risk Officer (PCF-14) for the regulated entity and is accountable for the design, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness of the enterprise risk management framework.\n\nThe Product and Regional Risk Manager lead the risk management function for the regulated entity and will play a critical part in strengthening Kraken's enterprise-wide risk posture, with a focus on risk identification, assessment, and monitoring across our product suite and regional markets. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker who deploys technology solutions — including automation of everything possible consistent with regulatory requirements — to scale the program as a risk-based, operationally effective, data-driven machine. This role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and regional business leads to surface and manage risks that could impact Kraken's clients, operations, and strategic objectives.\n\nNote: This person is the designated Pre-Approval Controlled Function (PCF) under the Central Bank of Ireland's Fitness & Probity regime (PCF 14). Appointment is subject to approval by the CBI and Board of Directors. This role is open only to candidates who are currently based in (or willing to relocate to) and legally authorised to work in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Conduct and maintain risk assessments and RCSAs across Kraken's core and emerging product lines, identifying key risk exposures and recommending appropriate controls and mitigants\n\n - Perform risk assessments for Kraken's regional entities, working with regional and global stakeholders to understand the regulatory, operational, and market risk environment\n\n - Contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of Kraken's enterprise risk taxonomy, risk appetite framework, and key risk indicator (KRI) reporting\n\n - Own and oversee the regulated entity risk management framework, including risk appetite setting, risk taxonomy, and governance structures. Lead the identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of all material risk types, including operational, regulatory, liquidity, safeguarding, outsourcing, ICT, and conduct risks. Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory frameworks, including MiCAR, E-Money Regulations, and DORA.\n\n - Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed risk considerations early in the product development lifecycle, providing guidance on risk implications of new features, products, and initiatives\n\n - Drive proactive identification and escalation of emerging risks, ensuring timely visibility for senior management and relevant governance bodies\n\n - Leverage GRC tooling and data analytics to support risk monitoring, reporting, and the automation of risk program activities at scale\n\n - Monitor the risk environment for developments — including MiCAR and broader digital asset regulatory obligations — that may affect Kraken's product or regional risk profile\n\n - Serve as the primary point of contact for risk-related engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland and other relevant regulators. Lead the preparation and delivery of risk reporting to the Board and its committees, and support regulatory submissions, reviews, and inspections as required.\n\n - Prepare clear, concise risk reporting for senior leadership, risk committees, and relevant governance bodies that articulates the key drivers of Kraken's risk landscape\n\n - Operate independently across a broad range of risk activities, adding meaningful value while maintaining a collaborative working style with PCFs and senior management\n\n - Foster a culture of risk awareness across the organization by collaborating with cross-functional partners and contributing to risk training and education efforts\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 7+ years of proven experience in enterprise risk management or a related discipline, ideally within a financial services, fintech, or crypto organization, or a top-tier consulting or audit firm\n\n - Solid understanding of risk frameworks and risk assessment methodologies, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in a fast-moving environment\n\n - Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments and RCSAs, with the ability to translate complex risk findings into clear, actionable recommendations\n\n - Strong familiarity with digital asset markets and MiCAR regulatory obligations\n\n - Systems thinker with a track record of leveraging technology, automation, and data-driven approaches to build scalable, operationally effective risk programs\n\n - Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and derive meaningful risk insights\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce polished deliverables and present findings to senior stakeholders and governance bodies\n\n - Proven ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and add value across a broad range of risk activities in a high-growth, fully remote environment\n\n - Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Finance teams\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Knowledge of the crypto and digital assets landscape is a strong plus — familiarity with Kraken's products and competitive environment\n\n - Experience using a GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tool\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"4e8d9070-a1c7-406a-a333-7a57c7ef9f42","title":"Software Engineer - Frontend - Payments","department":"Engineering","team":"Frontend","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Colombia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Colombia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-28T12:54:24.995+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4e8d9070-a1c7-406a-a333-7a57c7ef9f42","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4e8d9070-a1c7-406a-a333-7a57c7ef9f42/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team to be focused on our payments systems. The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken.
Join our Payments team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of payment providers.
As a member of this team, your focus is on protecting client funds. You will be responsible for building systems that communicate with various blockchains to enable the timely processing of client transactions, while also ensuring the safety and security of all funds on the exchange.
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality payment processing systems using React.js and other relevant technologies
Build and refine seamless transaction experiences that optimize fund transfers for speed, security, and reliability
Ensure an efficient and intuitive onboarding experience for users interacting with payment systems, reducing friction and improving trust
Develop innovative features that enhance engagement, retention, and loyalty within the payments ecosystem
Set the standard for high-quality, secure code and lead the development of complex financial software systems
Influence technical decisions, contribute to strategy discussions, and shape product/domain decisions with a deep understanding of financial systems and security best practices
Mentor engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and drive process improvements in financial software development
Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant financial systems, ensuring compliance and security best practices
5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on web and mobile applications
Deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and proficiency with React and React Native frameworks
Experience with Next.js, RESTful APIs and WebSockets
Experience with frontend testing frameworks
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tooling
Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices and principles
Experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Knowledge of the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team to be focused on our payments systems. The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken.\n\nJoin our Payments team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of payment providers.\n\nAs a member of this team, your focus is on protecting client funds. You will be responsible for building systems that communicate with various blockchains to enable the timely processing of client transactions, while also ensuring the safety and security of all funds on the exchange.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design, develop, and maintain high-quality payment processing systems using React.js and other relevant technologies\n\n - Build and refine seamless transaction experiences that optimize fund transfers for speed, security, and reliability\n\n - Ensure an efficient and intuitive onboarding experience for users interacting with payment systems, reducing friction and improving trust\n\n - Develop innovative features that enhance engagement, retention, and loyalty within the payments ecosystem\n\n - Set the standard for high-quality, secure code and lead the development of complex financial software systems\n\n - Influence technical decisions, contribute to strategy discussions, and shape product/domain decisions with a deep understanding of financial systems and security best practices\n\n - Mentor engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and drive process improvements in financial software development\n\n - Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant financial systems, ensuring compliance and security best practices\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on web and mobile applications\n\n - Deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and proficiency with React and React Native frameworks\n\n - Experience with Next.js, RESTful APIs and WebSockets\n\n - Experience with frontend testing frameworks\n\n - Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tooling\n\n - Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices and principles\n\n - Experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication skills in English\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Knowledge of the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology\n\n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"4f89b39d-5dfb-4648-8943-640fc25de004","title":"Senior Solutions Engineer - Payward Services","department":"Engineering","team":"Solutions Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-16T04:42:33.950+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4f89b39d-5dfb-4648-8943-640fc25de004","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/4f89b39d-5dfb-4648-8943-640fc25de004/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
You'll be joining the Solutions Engineering function as a core contributor on our pre-sales team. Your focus is squarely pre-sales — partnering with sales and our Partner Solutions Lead to run discovery, design winning solutions, and build PoCs that close deals. You'll operate within the frameworks and playbooks our Solutions Architect has established, and bring the technical depth to execute them deal by deal.
You'll partner directly with our Solutions Architect, sales team, and Implementation Manager. This is a high-impact execution role — you'll be running deals end-to-end and delivering the technical win alongside sales.
Run technical discovery with prospective customers alongside sales and our Partner Solutions Lead — map their architecture, constraints, and compliance needs to our product suite (Embed, Ramp, Earn, xStocks, CF Benchmarks)
Surface recurring customer asks and product gaps from your deals and feed them to the Solutions Architect to inform the roadmap
Design tailored solutions spanning our existing offerings, customizations to those offerings, bespoke integrations built on top of our platform, or hands-on work directly in the customer's codebase
Scope and build proof-of-concepts that demonstrate technical feasibility and win the deal
Own a clean, structured handoff to our Implementation team — delivering PoCs, solution design docs, and knowledge transfer sessions that ensure what was promised gets built
Execute the pre-sales playbook — discovery frameworks, solution templates, PoC standards, and handoff runbooks — and contribute improvements back to the team as you learn what works
4+ years in a technical pre-sales role (solutions engineering or solutions architecture) at a B2B API or infrastructure company
Proven track record executing the technical pre-sales motion — discovery, solution design, PoC delivery, and deal-winning
Fluency with REST/WebSocket APIs, auth patterns (OAuth, JWT), webhook architecture, and integration debugging
Experience designing and building complex integrations for technical buyers at fintechs, banks, or neobanks — including customizations and bespoke work
Strong knowledge transfer skills — you know how to package a solution design so an implementation team can execute it faithfully
Clear, structured communicator who can run a discovery call, a design review, and a handoff debrief back to back
Experience writing RFPs and documenting solution approaches that clearly communicate how our product and our customizations will solve a customer's problem
Crypto domain knowledge — trading, custody, KYC, staking, fiat ramp mechanics
Experience with embedded finance or crypto-as-a-service products
Experience with Coast and building out proof of concept sales demos inside Coast
Hands-on with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) for rapid prototyping
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nPayward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\nYou'll be joining the Solutions Engineering function as a core contributor on our pre-sales team. Your focus is squarely pre-sales — partnering with sales and our Partner Solutions Lead to run discovery, design winning solutions, and build PoCs that close deals. You'll operate within the frameworks and playbooks our Solutions Architect has established, and bring the technical depth to execute them deal by deal.\n\nYou'll partner directly with our Solutions Architect, sales team, and Implementation Manager. This is a high-impact execution role — you'll be running deals end-to-end and delivering the technical win alongside sales.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Run technical discovery with prospective customers alongside sales and our Partner Solutions Lead — map their architecture, constraints, and compliance needs to our product suite (Embed, Ramp, Earn, xStocks, CF Benchmarks)\n\n - Surface recurring customer asks and product gaps from your deals and feed them to the Solutions Architect to inform the roadmap\n\n - Design tailored solutions spanning our existing offerings, customizations to those offerings, bespoke integrations built on top of our platform, or hands-on work directly in the customer's codebase\n\n - Scope and build proof-of-concepts that demonstrate technical feasibility and win the deal\n\n - Own a clean, structured handoff to our Implementation team — delivering PoCs, solution design docs, and knowledge transfer sessions that ensure what was promised gets built\n\n - Execute the pre-sales playbook — discovery frameworks, solution templates, PoC standards, and handoff runbooks — and contribute improvements back to the team as you learn what works\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 4+ years in a technical pre-sales role (solutions engineering or solutions architecture) at a B2B API or infrastructure company\n\n - Proven track record executing the technical pre-sales motion — discovery, solution design, PoC delivery, and deal-winning\n\n - Fluency with REST/WebSocket APIs, auth patterns (OAuth, JWT), webhook architecture, and integration debugging\n\n - Experience designing and building complex integrations for technical buyers at fintechs, banks, or neobanks — including customizations and bespoke work\n\n - Strong knowledge transfer skills — you know how to package a solution design so an implementation team can execute it faithfully\n\n - Clear, structured communicator who can run a discovery call, a design review, and a handoff debrief back to back\n\n - Experience writing RFPs and documenting solution approaches that clearly communicate how our product and our customizations will solve a customer's problem\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Crypto domain knowledge — trading, custody, KYC, staking, fiat ramp mechanics\n\n - Experience with embedded finance or crypto-as-a-service products\n\n - Experience with Coast and building out proof of concept sales demos inside Coast\n\n - Hands-on with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) for rapid prototyping\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Pro team is responsible for Kraken Pro’s web and mobile trading experiences across spot and futures markets. Distributed globally, the team builds and scales high-performance trading interfaces using Typescript and React, delivering fast, reliable, and intuitive experiences for advanced traders.
Join the Pro team and help build the internet of money. You’ll lead and grow a distributed team of engineers responsible for the frontend and mobile experience powering Kraken Pro. In this role, you’ll drive technical direction, product execution, and engineering excellence across Kraken’s next generation trading platform.
Own and drive the technical vision and architecture of Kraken’s Pro mobile application
Build and maintain high-performance mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript
Lead initiatives to improve app performance, reliability, and scalability (e.g. startup time, responsiveness, resource efficiency)
Act as a technical leader across multiple teams, ensuring consistency and quality across a shared codebase
Partner with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver impactful, user-facing features
Take the lead during critical production issues, diagnosing problems and driving solutions
Define and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and tooling for mobile development
Mentor engineers and elevate the overall technical capability of the team
Stay close to the code while operating at a strategic, platform level
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on mobile development
Deep expertise in React Native and TypeScript
Proven experience owning or leading large-scale, production mobile applications
Strong understanding of mobile performance optimisation, architecture, and debugging
Experience delivering measurable improvements to app performance (e.g. load time, stability, efficiency)
Solid knowledge of iOS and Android platforms
Experience working across multiple teams or shared platforms
Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a bias for action
Significant experience of developing micro interactions and animations in React Native
Experience building high-performance consumer or fintech applications
Familiarity with native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, etc.)
Experience defining or scaling mobile platforms across multiple teams
Background in fast-growing or highly technical product environments
Contributions to open-source or the broader engineering community
OUR COMMITMENT
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.
STAY CONNECTED
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/
Kraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com
Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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Distributed globally, the team builds and scales high-performance trading interfaces using Typescript and React, delivering fast, reliable, and intuitive experiences for advanced traders.\n\nJoin the Pro team and help build the internet of money. You’ll lead and grow a distributed team of engineers responsible for the frontend and mobile experience powering Kraken Pro. In this role, you’ll drive technical direction, product execution, and engineering excellence across Kraken’s next generation trading platform.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own and drive the technical vision and architecture of Kraken’s Pro mobile application\n\n - Build and maintain high-performance mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript\n\n - Lead initiatives to improve app performance, reliability, and scalability (e.g. startup time, responsiveness, resource efficiency)\n\n - Act as a technical leader across multiple teams, ensuring consistency and quality across a shared codebase\n\n - Partner with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver impactful, user-facing features\n\n - Take the lead during critical production issues, diagnosing problems and driving solutions\n\n - Define and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and tooling for mobile development\n\n - Mentor engineers and elevate the overall technical capability of the team\n\n - Stay close to the code while operating at a strategic, platform level\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on mobile development\n\n - Deep expertise in React Native and TypeScript\n\n - Proven experience owning or leading large-scale, production mobile applications\n\n - Strong understanding of mobile performance optimisation, architecture, and debugging\n\n - Experience delivering measurable improvements to app performance (e.g. load time, stability, efficiency)\n\n - Solid knowledge of iOS and Android platforms\n\n - Experience working across multiple teams or shared platforms\n\n - Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams\n\n - A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a bias for action\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Significant experience of developing micro interactions and animations in React Native\n\n - Experience building high-performance consumer or fintech applications\n\n - Familiarity with native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, etc.)\n\n - Experience defining or scaling mobile platforms across multiple teams\n\n - Background in fast-growing or highly technical product environments\n\n - Contributions to open-source or the broader engineering community\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\nApplications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated in the posting.\n\n\n\nSTAY CONNECTED\n\nTwitter / X: https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\nKraken Blog: https://blog.kraken.com\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice: https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Payward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The Audit team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.
This role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of IT general controls and IT application controls across the SOX program. You will assess whether controls over access management, change management, system operations, and application-level processes are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on.
You will lead Internal Audit’s IT SOX controls testing program building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where the technology stack spans blockchain-native infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain and off-chain processing, and a pace of engineering change that most companies never encounter. The systems are complex, the deployments are frequent, and the controls are consequential. If you want an IT SOX role where the tech is genuinely interesting and the stakes are real, this is it.
Responsibilities span the following areas:
ITGC SOX controls testing
Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) across key control domains: access management, change management, and system operations.
Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across in-scope applications and infrastructure, including systems that support blockchain-native operations, digital asset custody, and crypto trading platforms. Document testing procedures and results to meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.
Identify new systems, applications, or process changes that emerge during testing and assess their SOX implications in coordination with the SOX Compliance team.
Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for IT SOX testing.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency across IT control domains.
Remediation validation & issue management
Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across ITGC control areas.
Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.
Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.
Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.
Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.
Stakeholder engagement & reporting
Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both.
Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.
Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.
8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing.
Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure.
CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered.
Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls.
Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations.
Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them.
Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements.
Experience working with or alongside external auditors (Big 4 preferred) on SOX engagements.
Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.
Effective communicator who can translate technical IT audit findings for control owners, engineering teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.
Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain transaction processing, or crypto-native technology environments.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab or similar version control systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and modern deployment practices.
Prior experience building or scaling an IT SOX testing program in a growth-stage or first-year SOX company.
Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.
Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nPayward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The Audit team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.\n\n\n\nThis role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of IT general controls and IT application controls across the SOX program. 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If you want an IT SOX role where the tech is genuinely interesting and the stakes are real, this is it.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities span the following areas:\n\nITGC SOX controls testing\n\n - Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) across key control domains: access management, change management, and system operations.\n\n - Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across in-scope applications and infrastructure, including systems that support blockchain-native operations, digital asset custody, and crypto trading platforms. Document testing procedures and results to meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.\n\n - Identify new systems, applications, or process changes that emerge during testing and assess their SOX implications in coordination with the SOX Compliance team.\n\n - Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for IT SOX testing.\n\n - Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency across IT control domains.\n\n\n\nRemediation validation & issue management\n\n - Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across ITGC control areas.\n\n - Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.\n\n - Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.\n\n - Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.\n\n - Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.\n\n\n\nStakeholder engagement & reporting\n\n - Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both.\n\n - Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.\n\n - Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing.\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure.\n\n - CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered.\n\n - Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls.\n\n - Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations.\n\n - Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them.\n\n - Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements.\n\n - Experience working with or alongside external auditors (Big 4 preferred) on SOX engagements.\n\n - Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.\n\n - Effective communicator who can translate technical IT audit findings for control owners, engineering teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain transaction processing, or crypto-native technology environments.\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab or similar version control systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and modern deployment practices.\n\n - Prior experience building or scaling an IT SOX testing program in a growth-stage or first-year SOX company.\n\n - Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.\n\n - Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Payward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The Audit team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.
This role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of IT general controls and IT application controls across the SOX program. You will assess whether controls over access management, change management, system operations, and application-level processes are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on.
You will lead Internal Audit’s IT SOX controls testing program building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where the technology stack spans blockchain-native infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain and off-chain processing, and a pace of engineering change that most companies never encounter. The systems are complex, the deployments are frequent, and the controls are consequential. If you want an IT SOX role where the tech is genuinely interesting and the stakes are real, this is it.
Responsibilities span the following areas:
ITGC SOX controls testing
Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) across key control domains: access management, change management, and system operations.
Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across in-scope applications and infrastructure, including systems that support blockchain-native operations, digital asset custody, and crypto trading platforms. Document testing procedures and results to meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.
Identify new systems, applications, or process changes that emerge during testing and assess their SOX implications in coordination with the SOX Compliance team.
Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for IT SOX testing.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency across IT control domains.
Remediation validation & issue management
Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across ITGC control areas.
Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.
Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.
Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.
Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.
Stakeholder engagement & reporting
Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both.
Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.
Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.
8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing.
Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure.
CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered.
Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls.
Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations.
Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them.
Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements.
Experience working with or alongside external auditors (Big 4 preferred) on SOX engagements.
Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.
Effective communicator who can translate technical IT audit findings for control owners, engineering teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.
Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain transaction processing, or crypto-native technology environments.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab or similar version control systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and modern deployment practices.
Prior experience building or scaling an IT SOX testing program in a growth-stage or first-year SOX company.
Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.
Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n \n\nPayward's Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The Audit team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.\n\n \n\nThis role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of IT general controls and IT application controls across the SOX program. You will assess whether controls over access management, change management, system operations, and application-level processes are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on.\n\n\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nYou will lead Internal Audit’s IT SOX controls testing program building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where the technology stack spans blockchain-native infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain and off-chain processing, and a pace of engineering change that most companies never encounter. The systems are complex, the deployments are frequent, and the controls are consequential. If you want an IT SOX role where the tech is genuinely interesting and the stakes are real, this is it.\n\n \n\nResponsibilities span the following areas:\n\nITGC SOX controls testing\n\n - Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) across key control domains: access management, change management, and system operations.\n\n - Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across in-scope applications and infrastructure, including systems that support blockchain-native operations, digital asset custody, and crypto trading platforms. Document testing procedures and results to meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards.\n\n - Identify new systems, applications, or process changes that emerge during testing and assess their SOX implications in coordination with the SOX Compliance team.\n\n - Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for IT SOX testing.\n\n - Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency across IT control domains.\n\n \n\nRemediation validation & issue management\n\n - Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across ITGC control areas.\n\n - Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification.\n\n - Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings.\n\n - Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required.\n\n - Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements.\n\n \n\nStakeholder engagement & reporting\n\n - Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both.\n\n - Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.\n\n - Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing.\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure.\n\n - CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered.\n\n - Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls.\n\n - Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations.\n\n - Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them.\n\n - Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements.\n\n - Experience working with or alongside external auditors (Big 4 preferred) on SOX engagements.\n\n - Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions.\n\n - Effective communicator who can translate technical IT audit findings for control owners, engineering teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, digital asset custody systems, on-chain transaction processing, or crypto-native technology environments.\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab or similar version control systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and modern deployment practices.\n\n - Prior experience building or scaling an IT SOX testing program in a growth-stage or first-year SOX company.\n\n - Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva.\n\n - Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools and willingness to adopt emerging technologies.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$83.4K - $166.8K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"1d48846b-1d21-4371-a62d-d8f2e31cc907","tierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"56a4163d-d377-4d23-a17c-c9eca86fd39b","summary":"$83.4K – $166.8K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800},{"id":"021b7225-2c71-4dc9-862b-6f097788f4b3","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"bbb8e673-1e06-4450-a515-623af1fda365","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"5b422e12-2d2a-4dd9-beb3-3d5b46cd7e0a","title":"AI Video Editor - Performance Marketing - Growth","department":"Marketing","team":"Marketing","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-20T13:47:46.185+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/5b422e12-2d2a-4dd9-beb3-3d5b46cd7e0a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/5b422e12-2d2a-4dd9-beb3-3d5b46cd7e0a/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We’re looking for a world-class AI Video Editor who thrives at the intersection of creativity, performance marketing, and cutting-edge technology. This person will play a pivotal role in scaling Kraken’s global performance marketing engine by generating dozens of highly engaging video assets across 10+ languages and regions.
You’ll report directly to the Director of Performance Marketing and work closely with Growth & Performance Marketing, Creative, Content, and Affiliate teams to craft localized, platform-optimized videos for YouTube, Meta, Reddit, X, TikTok, Google UAC, Apple Search Ads, DSPs, CTV, and beyond.
This role requires deep mastery of both traditional editing software (Adobe suite) and advanced AI video tools (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, and other leading platforms). You’ll set the standard for how Kraken creates and scales video performance marketing content globally.
Develop, edit, and produce 35+ performance marketing videos monthly, tailored to specific platforms, audiences, and languages.
Collaborate with Growth Marketing, Affiliate, Brand, and Regional Marketing teams to ideate and execute localized campaigns.
Own the end-to-end video production pipeline — from concept to post-production — leveraging both Adobe Creative Suite and the latest AI-powered video tools.
Ensure brand consistency and compliance across all regions and platforms.
Continuously test and optimize video creative based on data-driven performance insights.
Build scalable video templates and workflows to support rapid localization and high-volume production.
Stay ahead of the curve on AI editing advancements, generative tools, and creative best practices.
Be scrappy and resourceful — always experimenting, finding faster/better ways to deliver content at scale.
Act as a trailblazer within the team: eagerly learn and master new AI video technologies before anyone else, show what’s possible, and train others on tools and workflows they didn’t even know existed.
Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition).
Deep hands-on experience with AI-powered video editors (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, Synthesia, etc.).
Strong understanding of performance marketing creative — especially for short-form, social-first video ads.
Ability to produce videos across multiple formats, languages, and regions at high velocity.
Self-driven and motivated to constantly explore, learn, and experiment with emerging tech.
Strong creative instincts backed by data-driven iteration and A/B testing.
Skilled at storytelling through motion, audio, and design, with sharp attention to detail.
Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders across growth, brand, affiliate, and regional teams.
Thrives in a fast-paced, global remote environment.
Passion for crypto, Web3, and the future of finance — with a drive to help accelerate global adoption.
Experience with 3D and motion graphics (Cinema 4D, Blender, Unreal).
Experience with CTV and long-form ad creative.
Familiarity with sound design, voiceover AI, and localization workflows.
Experience working on affiliate and partner-driven performance campaigns.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe’re looking for a world-class AI Video Editor who thrives at the intersection of creativity, performance marketing, and cutting-edge technology. This person will play a pivotal role in scaling Kraken’s global performance marketing engine by generating dozens of highly engaging video assets across 10+ languages and regions.\n\nYou’ll report directly to the Director of Performance Marketing and work closely with Growth & Performance Marketing, Creative, Content, and Affiliate teams to craft localized, platform-optimized videos for YouTube, Meta, Reddit, X, TikTok, Google UAC, Apple Search Ads, DSPs, CTV, and beyond.\n\nThis role requires deep mastery of both traditional editing software (Adobe suite) and advanced AI video tools (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, and other leading platforms). You’ll set the standard for how Kraken creates and scales video performance marketing content globally.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Develop, edit, and produce 35+ performance marketing videos monthly, tailored to specific platforms, audiences, and languages.\n\n - Collaborate with Growth Marketing, Affiliate, Brand, and Regional Marketing teams to ideate and execute localized campaigns.\n\n - Own the end-to-end video production pipeline — from concept to post-production — leveraging both Adobe Creative Suite and the latest AI-powered video tools.\n\n - Ensure brand consistency and compliance across all regions and platforms.\n\n - Continuously test and optimize video creative based on data-driven performance insights.\n\n - Build scalable video templates and workflows to support rapid localization and high-volume production.\n\n - Stay ahead of the curve on AI editing advancements, generative tools, and creative best practices.\n\n - Be scrappy and resourceful — always experimenting, finding faster/better ways to deliver content at scale.\n\n - Act as a trailblazer within the team: eagerly learn and master new AI video technologies before anyone else, show what’s possible, and train others on tools and workflows they didn’t even know existed.\n\n - Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING:\n\n - Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition).\n\n - Deep hands-on experience with AI-powered video editors (Google Veo 3, Runway, Pika, Synthesia, etc.).\n\n - Strong understanding of performance marketing creative — especially for short-form, social-first video ads.\n\n - Ability to produce videos across multiple formats, languages, and regions at high velocity.\n\n - Self-driven and motivated to constantly explore, learn, and experiment with emerging tech.\n\n - Strong creative instincts backed by data-driven iteration and A/B testing.\n\n - Skilled at storytelling through motion, audio, and design, with sharp attention to detail.\n\n - Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders across growth, brand, affiliate, and regional teams.\n\n - Thrives in a fast-paced, global remote environment.\n\n - Passion for crypto, Web3, and the future of finance — with a drive to help accelerate global adoption.\n \n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with 3D and motion graphics (Cinema 4D, Blender, Unreal).\n\n - Experience with CTV and long-form ad creative.\n\n - Familiarity with sound design, voiceover AI, and localization workflows.\n\n - Experience working on affiliate and partner-driven performance campaigns.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
You’ll join a senior team of DBAs and SREs responsible for the database platform that underpins many of Kraken’s most critical services. This group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset, designing systems that allow engineering teams to innovate quickly while maintaining strong guarantees around performance, security, and reliability.
The team is entering an exciting phase of evolution as Kraken continues to expand globally. Over the next year, we are focused on strengthening our operational excellence, evolving our database environments to support significant future scale, and increasing automation and self-service so that database operations become more efficient, at scale.
This is not a traditional “keep the lights on” DBA team. Our work centers on scaling distributed MariaDB environments, shaping reliable patterns for high-traffic systems, and transforming operational knowledge into automated, auditable workflows that uplift the entire engineering organization.
It’s a collaborative, high-ownership environment where clarity, rigor, and continuous improvement are part of how we operate. If you enjoy building robust distributed systems and designing platforms that make engineering teams faster and safer by default, you’ll find a strong home here.
Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.
Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.
Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.
Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments.
Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns.
Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments.
Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization.
Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering.
5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios.
Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar).
Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal).
Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale).
Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.
Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.
Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs.
Strong scripting or programming ability (Python or Rust preferred) used to build automation and internal tools.
Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery designs.
Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nYou’ll join a senior team of DBAs and SREs responsible for the database platform that underpins many of Kraken’s most critical services. This group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset, designing systems that allow engineering teams to innovate quickly while maintaining strong guarantees around performance, security, and reliability.\n\nThe team is entering an exciting phase of evolution as Kraken continues to expand globally. Over the next year, we are focused on strengthening our operational excellence, evolving our database environments to support significant future scale, and increasing automation and self-service so that database operations become more efficient, at scale.\n\nThis is not a traditional “keep the lights on” DBA team. Our work centers on scaling distributed MariaDB environments, shaping reliable patterns for high-traffic systems, and transforming operational knowledge into automated, auditable workflows that uplift the entire engineering organization.\n\nIt’s a collaborative, high-ownership environment where clarity, rigor, and continuous improvement are part of how we operate. If you enjoy building robust distributed systems and designing platforms that make engineering teams faster and safer by default, you’ll find a strong home here.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.\n\n - Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.\n\n - Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.\n\n - Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments.\n\n - Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns.\n\n - Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments.\n\n - Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization.\n\n - Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting.\n\n - Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios.\n\n - Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar).\n\n - Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal).\n\n - Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.\n\n - Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale).\n\n - Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.\n\n - Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs.\n\n - Strong scripting or programming ability (Python or Rust preferred) used to build automation and internal tools.\n\n - Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).\n\n - Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery designs.\n\n - Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"6555e5e5-58a1-4419-86c6-fc232b4ea641","title":"Senior Engineering Manager - Frontend - Pro","department":"Engineering","team":"Leadership","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Brazil","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Uruguay","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Uruguay"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Latvia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Latvia"}}},{"location":"Colombia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Colombia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Malta","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Malta"}}},{"location":"Slovenia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovenia"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Estonia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Estonia"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Slovakia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovakia"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-27T10:25:42.485+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/6555e5e5-58a1-4419-86c6-fc232b4ea641","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/6555e5e5-58a1-4419-86c6-fc232b4ea641/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Join our Pro team and start building the internet of money.
Kraken Pro team is responsible for everything to do with trading & markets, across spot & futures. Lead and grow a distributed team of engineers building the next generation of Kraken Pro’s trading interface. You’ll be responsible for the technical direction, product execution, and engineering excellence of the UI layer that powers Kraken’s most advanced user experiences.
Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of performant, modular, and accessible frontend systems.
Partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to shape and deliver on our product roadmap.
Champion user experience through hands-on engagement with dogfooding, feedback loops, and usability improvements.
Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration within a globally distributed team.
Mentor and develop engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
Guide initiatives that modernize our FE stack, improve reliability, and enhance performance at scale.
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on frontend or full-stack development.
3+ years of experience leading and mentoring engineers (4–8 people) in a distributed environment.
Deep experience with TypeScript and React, including React Native for mobile.
Solid understanding of performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive UI design.
Proven track record of collaborating effectively with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams.
Passion for building delightful, high-quality user experiences in fast-moving, product-driven environments.
Exposure to backend technologies such as Rust, C++, Java, or Node.js.
Previous experience in Trading, Crypto, and/or Fintech.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nJoin our Pro team and start building the internet of money.\n\nKraken Pro team is responsible for everything to do with trading & markets, across spot & futures. Lead and grow a distributed team of engineers building the next generation of Kraken Pro’s trading interface. 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We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Join our Exchange team and start building the internet of money. The Exchange team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, margin systems and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in C++, Go, Rust, and Python, depending on the product they are contributing to within Kraken.
This role sits within the Trading Technologies sub-team, which owns the messaging and transport layer at the core of our trading infrastructure — built on Aeron for ultra-low-latency, reliable UDP messaging. You'll work directly on the systems that move market data, orders, and trade events across our exchange at microsecond scale.
Develop and maintain core framework and key software components for the Kraken trading engine, with a fous on the Aeron-based messaging transport layer
Design and implement low-latency, high-availability messaging solutions across unicast, multicast, and IPC transport paths
Tune and profile the full system stack — CPU pinning, NUMA topology, kernel bypass, receive buffer sizing — to squeeze latency out of production infrastructure
Build and extend Aeron Archive integrations for durable message replay and stream persistence
Build and design solutions that mitigate risk, implement security, and protect both systems and data
Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to product roadmap accomplishment
Work collaboratively on a distributed team, leveraging soft skills to effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders
5+ years experience working with modern C++
Prior experience in at least one of the following using Linux — distributed and/or highly-concurrent systems; low-latency and/or high-volume transaction environments
Deep understanding of low-latency systems fundamentals: lock-free data structures, mechanical sympathy, cache-line discipline, busy-spin vs. park/wake tradeoffs
Experience with Aeron or comparable messaging transports (e.g. Chronicle Queue, ZeroMQ, LMAX Disruptor) highly desirable
Experience with UDP networking, multicast, and kernel-bypass techniques (e.g. DPDK, RDMA) a strong plus
Familiarity with SBE (Simple Binary Encoding) or similar zero-copy serialisation formats a plus
Experience profiling and optimising code (CPU, memory, network) — perf, flamegraphs, VTune, or equivalent
High level of proficiency in Python, Rust, and SQL strongly preferred
Demonstrated knowledge of order types, trading systems, and financial products is highly desirable
Cryptocurrency/Blockchain familiarity highly preferable
Proactive mindset with the ability to both prioritize tasks and adhere to aggressive deadlines
BS in a technical or quantitative field
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nJoin our Exchange team and start building the internet of money. The Exchange team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, margin systems and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in C++, Go, Rust, and Python, depending on the product they are contributing to within Kraken.\n\nThis role sits within the Trading Technologies sub-team, which owns the messaging and transport layer at the core of our trading infrastructure — built on Aeron for ultra-low-latency, reliable UDP messaging. You'll work directly on the systems that move market data, orders, and trade events across our exchange at microsecond scale.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Develop and maintain core framework and key software components for the Kraken trading engine, with a fous on the Aeron-based messaging transport layer\n\n - Design and implement low-latency, high-availability messaging solutions across unicast, multicast, and IPC transport paths\n\n - Tune and profile the full system stack — CPU pinning, NUMA topology, kernel bypass, receive buffer sizing — to squeeze latency out of production infrastructure\n\n - Build and extend Aeron Archive integrations for durable message replay and stream persistence\n\n - Build and design solutions that mitigate risk, implement security, and protect both systems and data\n\n - Write reusable, testable, and efficient code\n\n - Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to product roadmap accomplishment\n\n - Work collaboratively on a distributed team, leveraging soft skills to effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years experience working with modern C++\n\n - Prior experience in at least one of the following using Linux — distributed and/or highly-concurrent systems; low-latency and/or high-volume transaction environments\n\n - Deep understanding of low-latency systems fundamentals: lock-free data structures, mechanical sympathy, cache-line discipline, busy-spin vs. park/wake tradeoffs\n\n - Experience with Aeron or comparable messaging transports (e.g. Chronicle Queue, ZeroMQ, LMAX Disruptor) highly desirable\n\n - Experience with UDP networking, multicast, and kernel-bypass techniques (e.g. DPDK, RDMA) a strong plus\n\n - Familiarity with SBE (Simple Binary Encoding) or similar zero-copy serialisation formats a plus\n\n - Experience profiling and optimising code (CPU, memory, network) — perf, flamegraphs, VTune, or equivalent\n\n - High level of proficiency in Python, Rust, and SQL strongly preferred\n\n - Demonstrated knowledge of order types, trading systems, and financial products is highly desirable\n\n - Cryptocurrency/Blockchain familiarity highly preferable\n\n - Proactive mindset with the ability to both prioritize tasks and adhere to aggressive deadlines\n\n - BS in a technical or quantitative field\n\n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"782eea12-4114-4123-bae7-e897a057d196","title":"Data Analyst, Growth","department":"Data","team":"Data Analytics","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Canada","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"United Kingdom","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-30T19:07:22.495+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/782eea12-4114-4123-bae7-e897a057d196","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/782eea12-4114-4123-bae7-e897a057d196/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Every product decision at Kraken runs on data. Markets open 24/7, millions of users, a product that never stands still. The complexity is real and the infrastructure has to keep up. We're not building for today, we're building for what Kraken becomes next. To do that, we need people who build the foundation that good decisions are made on, and then make sure those decisions are the right ones.
We’re looking for a Data Analyst, Growth to join our team remotely. The #1 goal of this role is to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that improve user experience, support the development of new features, deepen engagement, and help leadership make high-impact product decisions.
You’ll own end-to-end data management from production-grade pipelines and dbt models to dashboards and metric frameworks for the Marketing Growth team. You'll define north star metrics from the ground up, drive experimentation infrastructure through A/B testing and causal inference, and translate results into clear product recommendations. We're actively building a culture where AI tooling is part of how we work, from LLM-augmented pipelines to GenAI-assisted workflows, and we're looking for people who are excited to grow alongside that.
Beyond technical expertise, success in this role depends on being a true business partner who combines data-driven insights with deep knowledge of growth marketing funnels and user behaviour. You bring experience from environments where data quality has real consequences and where you've had to build the infrastructure, not just use it.
Act as a trusted business advisor to the Growth team, understanding the business deeply enough to know which questions are worth asking, not just how to answer them.
Own the design of dashboards, metrics and north star frameworks from the ground up, turning data into decisions for cross-functional partners and leadership.
Dive into large, complex datasets to build scalable data models that power full-funnel reporting, analytics and ML.
Lead cross-functional initiatives with analysts, engineers and product teams to build and maintain high-quality data pipelines using Airflow, Python and modern ETL frameworks.
Drive experimentation infrastructure by designing A/B testing frameworks, testing hypotheses and translating results into clear growth recommendations.
Develop production-grade code for pipelines and dashboards, applying software engineering best practices throughout.
Deliver insights that shape growth strategy through clear, data-driven storytelling to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
7+ years of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering, ideally within fintech, payments, crypto or a high-scale marketplace where data quality and scale are non-negotiable.
Hands-on experience building and owning production data pipelines, with strong familiarity with dbt and Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools.
Full mastery of SQL including complex joins, CTEs and analytical functions, alongside strong Python proficiency for pipeline development and analysis.
Hands-on experience designing and running A/B tests and experimentation frameworks, with the ability to apply causal inference techniques and translate results into clear growth recommendations.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional data initiatives from design to delivery, with measurable business outcomes you can point to.
Strong communicator who can simplify complex data ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
A degree in a field emphasising analytical rigour such as software engineering, economics or a hard science.
Based in Canada, the US, the UK or the EU and fluent in English.
Experience with LLM-augmented analytics pipelines or AI-assisted workflows in a production environment
Solid understanding of the cryptocurrency space and how financial markets function
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nEvery product decision at Kraken runs on data. Markets open 24/7, millions of users, a product that never stands still. The complexity is real and the infrastructure has to keep up. We're not building for today, we're building for what Kraken becomes next. To do that, we need people who build the foundation that good decisions are made on, and then make sure those decisions are the right ones.\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for a Data Analyst, Growth to join our team remotely. The #1 goal of this role is to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that improve user experience, support the development of new features, deepen engagement, and help leadership make high-impact product decisions.\n\n\n\nYou’ll own end-to-end data management from production-grade pipelines and dbt models to dashboards and metric frameworks for the Marketing Growth team. You'll define north star metrics from the ground up, drive experimentation infrastructure through A/B testing and causal inference, and translate results into clear product recommendations. We're actively building a culture where AI tooling is part of how we work, from LLM-augmented pipelines to GenAI-assisted workflows, and we're looking for people who are excited to grow alongside that.\n\n\n\nBeyond technical expertise, success in this role depends on being a true business partner who combines data-driven insights with deep knowledge of growth marketing funnels and user behaviour. You bring experience from environments where data quality has real consequences and where you've had to build the infrastructure, not just use it.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Act as a trusted business advisor to the Growth team, understanding the business deeply enough to know which questions are worth asking, not just how to answer them.\n\n - Own the design of dashboards, metrics and north star frameworks from the ground up, turning data into decisions for cross-functional partners and leadership.\n\n - Dive into large, complex datasets to build scalable data models that power full-funnel reporting, analytics and ML.\n\n - Lead cross-functional initiatives with analysts, engineers and product teams to build and maintain high-quality data pipelines using Airflow, Python and modern ETL frameworks.\n\n - Drive experimentation infrastructure by designing A/B testing frameworks, testing hypotheses and translating results into clear growth recommendations.\n\n - Develop production-grade code for pipelines and dashboards, applying software engineering best practices throughout.\n\n - Deliver insights that shape growth strategy through clear, data-driven storytelling to technical and non-technical audiences alike.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 7+ years of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering, ideally within fintech, payments, crypto or a high-scale marketplace where data quality and scale are non-negotiable.\n\n - Hands-on experience building and owning production data pipelines, with strong familiarity with dbt and Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools.\n\n - Full mastery of SQL including complex joins, CTEs and analytical functions, alongside strong Python proficiency for pipeline development and analysis.\n\n - Hands-on experience designing and running A/B tests and experimentation frameworks, with the ability to apply causal inference techniques and translate results into clear growth recommendations.\n\n - Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional data initiatives from design to delivery, with measurable business outcomes you can point to.\n\n - Strong communicator who can simplify complex data ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\n - A degree in a field emphasising analytical rigour such as software engineering, economics or a hard science.\n\n - Based in Canada, the US, the UK or the EU and fluent in English.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with LLM-augmented analytics pipelines or AI-assisted workflows in a production environment\n\n - Solid understanding of the cryptocurrency space and how financial markets function\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"7865d82e-1365-4e5d-9293-5c099899ffc4","title":"Security Associate, M&A & Partnerships","department":"Security & IT","team":"Security & IT","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-18T15:18:04.853+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/7865d82e-1365-4e5d-9293-5c099899ffc4","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/7865d82e-1365-4e5d-9293-5c099899ffc4/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are a small, M&A-focused Security and IT team that consistently punches above our weight while operating within Kraken’s broader Security organization. We represent Security and IT throughout M&A transactions and collaborate with partners across HR, Engineering, Legal, Vendor Management, Finance, Compliance, Business Operations, and other teams.
While diligence work is confidential, the team embraces hyper-transparency post-close, fostering open dialogue and candid discussions while staying adaptable to the evolving landscape of the crypto industry.
Security Diligence: Conduct due diligence on the security and IT components of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and vendor engagements. Evaluate the cybersecurity posture, IT infrastructure, and technology stack of target companies.
Security and IT Integration: Lead integration of IT systems and security practices for acquired companies. Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure integration while maintaining Kraken’s security standards.
Technical Project Execution: Drive unique security and IT workstreams across M&A transactions. Advocate for technical actions, rationalize technology stacks, and align acquired environments with Kraken’s security architecture.
Cross-Team Coordination: Partner with Security, IT, Engineering, Corporate Development, and Product leaders to align on requirements, timelines, and execution plans.
Process Improvement & Tooling: Continuously improve internal workflows through automation, AI-enabled tooling, and consistent reporting mechanisms.
4+ years of experience in security, engineering, IT, technical PM, or M&A integration roles
2+ years executing or defining technical scopes of work in consulting or client-facing environments
Broad experience across Security, IT, and Engineering disciplines
Deep expertise in at least one of these areas:
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
IT Systems Management
Software Engineering
Application Security
DevOps / SRE
Vulnerability Management
Technical Project Management
Security Architecture
Cloud & Datacenter Security
Demonstrated ability to design or execute technical architecture plans that support business goals
Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve technical workflows
Working knowledge of audit and compliance frameworks
Strong understanding of IT systems, network infrastructure, and cybersecurity principles
Familiarity with regulatory and legal considerations related to IT and cybersecurity
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with diverse technical and business stakeholders
Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech
Experience working with globally distributed remote teams
Deep listening and empathy for team dynamics
Bias for action and results over rigid processes
Strategic mindset with the ability to zoom in on tactical details
Curious, low ego, highly collaborative, open to lessons learned
Systems thinker who sees patterns and opportunities across silos
Experience creating unique technical scopes of work for complex initiatives
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe are a small, M&A-focused Security and IT team that consistently punches above our weight while operating within Kraken’s broader Security organization. We represent Security and IT throughout M&A transactions and collaborate with partners across HR, Engineering, Legal, Vendor Management, Finance, Compliance, Business Operations, and other teams.\n\nWhile diligence work is confidential, the team embraces hyper-transparency post-close, fostering open dialogue and candid discussions while staying adaptable to the evolving landscape of the crypto industry.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Security Diligence: Conduct due diligence on the security and IT components of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and vendor engagements. Evaluate the cybersecurity posture, IT infrastructure, and technology stack of target companies.\n\n - Security and IT Integration: Lead integration of IT systems and security practices for acquired companies. Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure integration while maintaining Kraken’s security standards.\n\n - Technical Project Execution: Drive unique security and IT workstreams across M&A transactions. Advocate for technical actions, rationalize technology stacks, and align acquired environments with Kraken’s security architecture.\n\n - Cross-Team Coordination: Partner with Security, IT, Engineering, Corporate Development, and Product leaders to align on requirements, timelines, and execution plans.\n\n - Process Improvement & Tooling: Continuously improve internal workflows through automation, AI-enabled tooling, and consistent reporting mechanisms.\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 4+ years of experience in security, engineering, IT, technical PM, or M&A integration roles\n\n - 2+ years executing or defining technical scopes of work in consulting or client-facing environments\n\n - Broad experience across Security, IT, and Engineering disciplines\n\n - Deep expertise in at least one of these areas:\n \n - Identity & Access Management (IAM)\n \n - IT Systems Management\n \n - Software Engineering\n \n - Application Security\n \n - DevOps / SRE\n \n - Vulnerability Management\n \n - Technical Project Management\n \n - Security Architecture\n \n - Cloud & Datacenter Security\n\n - Demonstrated ability to design or execute technical architecture plans that support business goals\n\n - Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve technical workflows\n\n - Working knowledge of audit and compliance frameworks\n\n - Strong understanding of IT systems, network infrastructure, and cybersecurity principles\n\n - Familiarity with regulatory and legal considerations related to IT and cybersecurity\n\n - Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments\n\n - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with diverse technical and business stakeholders\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech\n\n - Experience working with globally distributed remote teams\n\n - Deep listening and empathy for team dynamics\n\n - Bias for action and results over rigid processes\n\n - Strategic mindset with the ability to zoom in on tactical details\n\n - Curious, low ego, highly collaborative, open to lessons learned\n\n - Systems thinker who sees patterns and opportunities across silos\n\n - Experience creating unique technical scopes of work for complex initiatives\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
If you thrive in a challenging, fun and fast-paced environment, the Network Engineer role within Core Infrastructure Engineering at Kraken is for you! Not only is this role a strategic position that is critical to the continuing success of Kraken, but you will be joining a highly dedicated team that is responsible for managing the entire network infrastructure for one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative self-starter with the ability to think “outside of the box” to solve complex problems in a sustainable way.
Implement and evolve enterprise network access controls
Manage and deploy \"infrastructure as code\" at scale
Contribute to the design, implementation, management, and defense of a “zero trust”, defense-in-depth network
Write good quality policies, procedures, and technical documentation
Coordinate with internal development teams and other stakeholders to ensure network security principles are \"built-in\" from the beginning
Work with Engineering and IT Security teams to ensure that product features are securely deployed and monitored
Monitor and maintain all physical infrastructure (network, security, and compute), cloud data center environments, remote office locations, and respond to critical network problems to maximize service uptime
Mentor and evangelize security practices through cross-functional work with internal stakeholders and teams
4+ years of network engineering background including offensive/defensive security
Deep experience in public (AWS or Azure or Google), private and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure
Experience of network automation tools (e.g. Nornir, Napalm, Terraform, Ansible)
Experience in managing and deploying Infrastructure as Code
Experience with network security management tools and techniques
Familiarity with security testing tools (performance and threat-based)
Proficient in network and security design, implementation, and administration leveraging industry standard platforms from vendors such as: Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Juniper, and Aruba
Experience with Switching (Capacity Planning & VLAN’s), Routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ECMP, PBF), WAN Technologies (MPLS, VPLS, VPN), public cloud networking, and Security (IPS, RBAC, etc.)
Previous experience monitoring and management of intrusion detection systems and firewall devices
Demonstrated experience implementing defensive security systems that are used against internal and external attack vectors
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nIf you thrive in a challenging, fun and fast-paced environment, the Network Engineer role within Core Infrastructure Engineering at Kraken is for you! Not only is this role a strategic position that is critical to the continuing success of Kraken, but you will be joining a highly dedicated team that is responsible for managing the entire network infrastructure for one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. 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We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Our API support team handles inquiries from clients using our API to implement various projects, from mobile apps, to high frequency trading bots, to other exchanges sourcing our liquidity.
You will work closely with our entire range of retail, VIP, and Institutional clients, answering API related questions and solving technical API issues, while providing the excellent customer experience our clients expect from Kraken.
As an API specialist you will be the first point of contact when our clients need assistance with our REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs.
Answer clients’ API questions via text and live support channels (Zendesk/Email/Telegram/Zoom).
Assist colleagues with API inquiries and projects involving API use cases.
Diagnose and provide solutions for clients’ API related issues.
Assist clients in implementing their API code (provide integration advice, debug client code, provide code examples).
Develop and maintain our official API libraries/wrappers in multiple programming languages.
Maintain internal and client facing API documentation, support content, and training resources.
Provide testing and feedback for new API features before they are released to clients.
Perform API related engineering tasks (API onboarding, firewall management, networking configuration).
Assist in the management of our API support team (QA for other specialists, etc.).
Knowledge and experience of at least one programming language (Python. JavaScript, C/C++/C#, Rust, for example).
Understanding of REST, WebSocket, and FIX API functionality.
Experience interpreting multiple data formats (JSON, CSV, XML, FIX 4.4, etc.).
Experience managing hosts (AWS instances, for example) and networks (firewall configuration, etc.).
Ability to write complex technical documentation in a human friendly format.
Good interpersonal skills, and excellent communication abilities.
Experience writing trading related code for REST, WebSocket, or FIX APIs (not necessarily crypto).
Experience with Google Sheets, Google Script, SQL, and other data tools.
Experience with third party API tools (Postman, N8N, for example).
UNIX command line knowledge (bash/sed/awk/grep/expect/etc.)
Language ability (in addition to English).
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nOur API support team handles inquiries from clients using our API to implement various projects, from mobile apps, to high frequency trading bots, to other exchanges sourcing our liquidity.\n\nYou will work closely with our entire range of retail, VIP, and Institutional clients, answering API related questions and solving technical API issues, while providing the excellent customer experience our clients expect from Kraken.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nAs an API specialist you will be the first point of contact when our clients need assistance with our REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs.\n\n - Answer clients’ API questions via text and live support channels (Zendesk/Email/Telegram/Zoom).\n\n - Assist colleagues with API inquiries and projects involving API use cases.\n\n - Diagnose and provide solutions for clients’ API related issues.\n\n - Assist clients in implementing their API code (provide integration advice, debug client code, provide code examples).\n\n - Develop and maintain our official API libraries/wrappers in multiple programming languages.\n\n - Maintain internal and client facing API documentation, support content, and training resources.\n\n - Provide testing and feedback for new API features before they are released to clients.\n\n - Perform API related engineering tasks (API onboarding, firewall management, networking configuration).\n\n - Assist in the management of our API support team (QA for other specialists, etc.).\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Knowledge and experience of at least one programming language (Python. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Derivatives Product Team is responsible for driving the derivatives roadmap and strategy forward to deliver our clients a best in class derivatives exchange. Our team builds a range of derivatives services including the derivatives trading engine, trading APIs and UIs, and the products that trade on them.
Assume ownership of the prediction markets and event-based contracts product roadmap, functional design and competitive strategy.
Lead relevant working groups including front-end applications and APIs from ideation to product launch.
Work closely with Engineering, Design, Operations, Compliance and other product managers to manage priorities within the working group and balance the needs of internal stakeholders on the product road map.
Contribute to the development of the strategy, road map, and business plan for prediction markets, event based contracts and other US derivative products.
Perform research to gain market insights across the industry.
Perform User Acceptance Testing and ensure that engineering work has been built to meet the requirements laid out.
Help to manage engagement with customers, internal and various other external parties.
Evangelize the power of analytics and experimentation in building a data-driven organization.
Working knowledge of US CFTC based derivative products, including but not limited to event-based contracts and strong understanding of market design and structure.
Previous experience building out US derivative trading products for institutional and / or retail clients.
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex, high-impact products.
Familiarity with flow of funds within different parties that engage with US based derivatives products and crypto native spot products.
Previous product management experience, with a minimum of 1 year in crypto and/or forex/brokerage industries; preferably derivative focused offerings.
Strong knowledge of global crypto derivative offerings across traditional markets and crypto-native CeFi & DeFi.
Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to distill complex ideas.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe Derivatives Product Team is responsible for driving the derivatives roadmap and strategy forward to deliver our clients a best in class derivatives exchange. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are a small, M&A-focused Security and IT team that consistently punches above our weight while operating within Kraken’s broader Security organization. We represent Security and IT throughout M&A transactions and collaborate with partners across HR, Engineering, Legal, Vendor Management, Finance, Compliance, Business Operations, and other teams.
While diligence work is confidential, the team embraces hyper-transparency post-close, fostering open dialogue and candid discussions while staying adaptable to the evolving landscape of the crypto industry.
Security Diligence: Conduct due diligence on the security and IT components of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and vendor engagements. Evaluate the cybersecurity posture, IT infrastructure, and technology stack of target companies.
Security and IT Integration: Lead integration of IT systems and security practices for acquired companies. Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure integration while maintaining Kraken’s security standards.
Technical Project Execution: Drive unique security and IT workstreams across M&A transactions. Advocate for technical actions, rationalize technology stacks, and align acquired environments with Kraken’s security architecture.
Cross-Team Coordination: Partner with Security, IT, Engineering, Corporate Development, and Product leaders to align on requirements, timelines, and execution plans.
Process Improvement & Tooling: Continuously improve internal workflows through automation, AI-enabled tooling, and consistent reporting mechanisms.
4+ years of experience in security, engineering, IT, technical PM, or M&A integration roles
2+ years executing or defining technical scopes of work in consulting or client-facing environments
Broad experience across Security, IT, and Engineering disciplines
Deep expertise in at least one of these areas:
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
IT Systems Management
Software Engineering
Application Security
DevOps / SRE
Vulnerability Management
Technical Project Management
Security Architecture
Cloud & Datacenter Security
Demonstrated ability to design or execute technical architecture plans that support business goals
Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve technical workflows
Working knowledge of audit and compliance frameworks
Strong understanding of IT systems, network infrastructure, and cybersecurity principles
Familiarity with regulatory and legal considerations related to IT and cybersecurity
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with diverse technical and business stakeholders
Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech
Experience working with globally distributed remote teams
Deep listening and empathy for team dynamics
Bias for action and results over rigid processes
Strategic mindset with the ability to zoom in on tactical details
Curious, low ego, highly collaborative, open to lessons learned
Systems thinker who sees patterns and opportunities across silos
Experience creating unique technical scopes of work for complex initiatives
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe are a small, M&A-focused Security and IT team that consistently punches above our weight while operating within Kraken’s broader Security organization. We represent Security and IT throughout M&A transactions and collaborate with partners across HR, Engineering, Legal, Vendor Management, Finance, Compliance, Business Operations, and other teams.\n\nWhile diligence work is confidential, the team embraces hyper-transparency post-close, fostering open dialogue and candid discussions while staying adaptable to the evolving landscape of the crypto industry.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Security Diligence: Conduct due diligence on the security and IT components of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and vendor engagements. Evaluate the cybersecurity posture, IT infrastructure, and technology stack of target companies.\n\n - Security and IT Integration: Lead integration of IT systems and security practices for acquired companies. Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure integration while maintaining Kraken’s security standards.\n\n - Technical Project Execution: Drive unique security and IT workstreams across M&A transactions. Advocate for technical actions, rationalize technology stacks, and align acquired environments with Kraken’s security architecture.\n\n - Cross-Team Coordination: Partner with Security, IT, Engineering, Corporate Development, and Product leaders to align on requirements, timelines, and execution plans.\n\n - Process Improvement & Tooling: Continuously improve internal workflows through automation, AI-enabled tooling, and consistent reporting mechanisms.\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 4+ years of experience in security, engineering, IT, technical PM, or M&A integration roles\n\n - 2+ years executing or defining technical scopes of work in consulting or client-facing environments\n\n - Broad experience across Security, IT, and Engineering disciplines\n\n - Deep expertise in at least one of these areas:\n \n - Identity & Access Management (IAM)\n \n - IT Systems Management\n \n - Software Engineering\n \n - Application Security\n \n - DevOps / SRE\n \n - Vulnerability Management\n \n - Technical Project Management\n \n - Security Architecture\n \n - Cloud & Datacenter Security\n\n - Demonstrated ability to design or execute technical architecture plans that support business goals\n\n - Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve technical workflows\n\n - Working knowledge of audit and compliance frameworks\n\n - Strong understanding of IT systems, network infrastructure, and cybersecurity principles\n\n - Familiarity with regulatory and legal considerations related to IT and cybersecurity\n\n - Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments\n\n - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with diverse technical and business stakeholders\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech\n\n - Experience working with globally distributed remote teams\n\n - Deep listening and empathy for team dynamics\n\n - Bias for action and results over rigid processes\n\n - Strategic mindset with the ability to zoom in on tactical details\n\n - Curious, low ego, highly collaborative, open to lessons learned\n\n - Systems thinker who sees patterns and opportunities across silos\n\n - Experience creating unique technical scopes of work for complex initiatives\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"86ddffff-2549-45c4-afcc-a4f1f1c2dbef","title":"Backend Crypto Engineer - L1","department":"Engineering","team":"Crypto & Onchain","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"APAC","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Colombia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Colombia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-22T14:45:14.063+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/86ddffff-2549-45c4-afcc-a4f1f1c2dbef","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/86ddffff-2549-45c4-afcc-a4f1f1c2dbef/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Join our Crypto team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. This team is responsible for developing & supporting crypto operations including deposits, withdrawals & staking.
As a member of this team, your focus is on protecting client funds. You will be responsible for building systems that communicate with various blockchains to enable the timely processing of client transactions, while also ensuring the safety and security of all funds on the exchange.
Integrate our existing systems with exciting new blockchains
Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems
Write highly scalable, high volume services
Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
Design and optimize database schemas
Own, develop and maintain existing crypto services
At least 3 years of backend development experience
Generalist knowledge of layer-1 blockchain development
Strong backend development experience, with proficiency in Typescript (Node.js) and/or Rust
Deep understanding of cryptographic concepts and scalable application design
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Temporal and GNU/Linux environments
Proficiency in code versioning tools (Git) and experience with automated testing frameworks
Passion for secure, privacy-focused blockchain solutions and a general interest in cryptocurrencies
Resilience and adaptability in rapidly evolving technical landscapes
Strong AI proficiency is highly desirable.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nJoin our Crypto team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. This team is responsible for developing & supporting crypto operations including deposits, withdrawals & staking.\n\nAs a member of this team, your focus is on protecting client funds. You will be responsible for building systems that communicate with various blockchains to enable the timely processing of client transactions, while also ensuring the safety and security of all funds on the exchange.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Integrate our existing systems with exciting new blockchains\n\n - Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems\n\n - Write highly scalable, high volume services\n\n - Write reusable, testable, and efficient code\n\n - Design and optimize database schemas\n\n - Own, develop and maintain existing crypto services\n\n \n\n\nSKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL\n\n - At least 3 years of backend development experience\n\n - Generalist knowledge of layer-1 blockchain development\n\n - Strong backend development experience, with proficiency in Typescript (Node.js) and/or Rust\n\n - Deep understanding of cryptographic concepts and scalable application design\n\n - Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Temporal and GNU/Linux environments\n\n - Proficiency in code versioning tools (Git) and experience with automated testing frameworks\n\n - Passion for secure, privacy-focused blockchain solutions and a general interest in cryptocurrencies\n\n - Resilience and adaptability in rapidly evolving technical landscapes\n\n - Strong AI proficiency is highly desirable.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"8b17770f-c563-4b57-97e3-3fee88cf5c60","title":"Risk, Compliance & Operations Analyst","department":"Compliance","team":"Compliance","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Ireland","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-22T14:41:29.267+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/8b17770f-c563-4b57-97e3-3fee88cf5c60","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/8b17770f-c563-4b57-97e3-3fee88cf5c60/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
As the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.
We are seeking a Risk, Compliance and Operations Analyst to help refine our operating model - how can we make processes better and more efficient by leveraging AI where appropriate. The successful candidate will have a broad scope and will be exposed to many critical functions within the firm, offering a huge growth opportunity in one of the oldest and most respected crypto asset exchanges in the world.
Operations
Enhance, develop and mature operational processes across Risk, Compliance and Operations - using AI where appropriate to streamline workflows, automate operational processes to enhance efficiency and operational scalability
Support on key compliance and operations initiatives including asset listing and market surveillance
Support the implementation of the Risk Management Framework - identifying, logging and managing risks
Support the lifecycle management of outsourcing service providers, in line with regulatory requirements
Support end-to-end execution of EU MiCAR, and other entities regulatory projects and Product Launches, coordinating across Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Finance
Support the preparation of Board and Committee materials, including regulatory updates, operational MI, outsourcing oversight reporting, and strategic initiatives for regulated entities
Prepare executive and Board-level reporting that translates regulatory, operational, and commercial developments into clear risk, performance, and strategic insights for senior leadership and non-executive directors
Strategic Influence
Engage cross functional teams and help influence decisions that are aligned with the entity’s strategy
Work on and lead strategic cross functional projects (e.g. license applications)
Support commercial and product teams in understanding MiCAR requirements and opportunities when designing new offerings
2–3 years in consulting, financial services, strategy, or operations — ideally in financial services, fintech, or crypto
Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with a commercial or regulatory focus
Commercially astute — connects regulatory compliance with business growth and customer trust
Operates with a consulting mindset: structured, analytical, and action-oriented
Thrives in ambiguity and moves quickly from concept to execution
Collaborative, low-ego, and able to influence senior stakeholders
Passionate about crypto, innovation, and responsible scaling in regulated environments
Knowledge of EU regulatory frameworks (EMRs, MiCAR, MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5/6, DORA, etc)
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nAs the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.\n\nWe are seeking a Risk, Compliance and Operations Analyst to help refine our operating model - how can we make processes better and more efficient by leveraging AI where appropriate. The successful candidate will have a broad scope and will be exposed to many critical functions within the firm, offering a huge growth opportunity in one of the oldest and most respected crypto asset exchanges in the world.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nOperations\n\n - Enhance, develop and mature operational processes across Risk, Compliance and Operations - using AI where appropriate to streamline workflows, automate operational processes to enhance efficiency and operational scalability\n\n - Support on key compliance and operations initiatives including asset listing and market surveillance\n\n - Support the implementation of the Risk Management Framework - identifying, logging and managing risks\n\n - Support the lifecycle management of outsourcing service providers, in line with regulatory requirements\n\n - Support end-to-end execution of EU MiCAR, and other entities regulatory projects and Product Launches, coordinating across Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Finance\n\n - Support the preparation of Board and Committee materials, including regulatory updates, operational MI, outsourcing oversight reporting, and strategic initiatives for regulated entities\n\n - Prepare executive and Board-level reporting that translates regulatory, operational, and commercial developments into clear risk, performance, and strategic insights for senior leadership and non-executive directors\n\nStrategic Influence\n\n - Engage cross functional teams and help influence decisions that are aligned with the entity’s strategy\n\n - Work on and lead strategic cross functional projects (e.g. license applications)\n\n - Support commercial and product teams in understanding MiCAR requirements and opportunities when designing new offerings\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 2–3 years in consulting, financial services, strategy, or operations — ideally in financial services, fintech, or crypto\n\n - Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with a commercial or regulatory focus\n\n - Commercially astute — connects regulatory compliance with business growth and customer trust\n\n - Operates with a consulting mindset: structured, analytical, and action-oriented\n\n - Thrives in ambiguity and moves quickly from concept to execution\n\n - Collaborative, low-ego, and able to influence senior stakeholders\n\n - Passionate about crypto, innovation, and responsible scaling in regulated environments\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Knowledge of EU regulatory frameworks (EMRs, MiCAR, MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5/6, DORA, etc)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"8f237e3a-9f73-451f-a210-2cea7442fc52","title":"Senior Analyst, Security Compliance","department":"Security & IT","team":"Security & IT","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-13T22:39:07.134+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/8f237e3a-9f73-451f-a210-2cea7442fc52","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/8f237e3a-9f73-451f-a210-2cea7442fc52/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken’s world-class Security Team is growing. As we continue to scale and mature our information technology controls program, we are seeking a senior professional with a strong background in IT controls and external audit to help build and operate a program designed for enterprise scale.
This role sits within Kraken’s Security Compliance function and offers close partnership with experienced leaders across our IT program, security organization, and enterprise technology stack. You’ll have the opportunity to establish audit rigor while also helping design and implement a robust, next-gen controls framework in a rapidly evolving Web3 environment.
Kraken is a leader in the security and digital assets space. You will collaborate with peers who have led global audit and consulting teams across Big Four organizations and contribute to initiatives shaping emerging Web3 standards. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact both within Kraken and across the broader industry.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working cross-functionally across a variety of teams, including Finance, Technology, Engineering, and Security to inform sound, risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.
This is a fully remote role.
Lead and manage SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations under AICPA standards in a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment, partnering with external auditors and internal teams to design, implement, and continuously improve IT control processes
Support end-to-end SOX planning and execution, including IT system scoping, audit readiness, and development and delivery of training for control owners operating in a high-growth, regulated business
Act as a trusted advisor to Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance teams, translating SOX and audit requirements into practical, scalable controls aligned with modern technology stacks
Lead security and IT control gap assessments, evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, and drive remediation efforts through to completion in partnership with control owners
Facilitate the ongoing maturation of IT general controls (ITGCs) and IT application controls (ITACs), balancing regulatory expectations with the pace of product and platform innovation
Oversee the quality and execution of audit initiatives, applying strong professional judgment to identify control gaps, assess risk, and guide teams through complex audit and compliance matters
Perform impact assessments for SOX control deficiencies and design risk-based, pragmatic remediation plans that stand up to auditor scrutiny without slowing the business
Implement and enhance controls monitoring and defense-in-depth across key IT risk areas to improve audit outcomes and strengthen the overall control environment
Partner cross-functionally to identify systemic program challenges, recommend process improvements, and drive durable solutions in a scaling organization
Develop and maintain clear, auditor-ready documentation, including data flow diagrams and process flowcharts for high-risk security and financial processes
Work closely with internal and external auditors, helping them navigate a sophisticated IT control environment and ensuring efficient, high-quality audits
Support audit evidence collection and continuous improvement initiatives, including leveraging automation to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability
5+ years of experience in external IT audit and/or technology risk assurance or advisory, with demonstrated ownership of complex audit requirements
Strong hands-on experience with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), including SOX 404 frameworks, control design, and operating effectiveness testing
Prior experience at a Big 4 or other large public accounting firm, or equivalent experience working with external auditors in a highly regulated environment
Proven ability to lead compliance and audit initiatives end to end, from planning and risk assessment through remediation and audit close
Experience auditing or assessing hybrid and cloud-based environments (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including access management, change management, and logging/monitoring controls
Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, driving outcomes across cross-functional teams with minimal supervision
Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate cross-functional work, and hold stakeholders accountable to agreed timelines
Strong organizational and time management skills, with a high degree of self motivation and effectiveness in a remote or distributed working environment
Exposure to fintech, payments, crypto, or digital asset business models, an added plus for crypto audit experience
Familiarity with risk and control frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT) beyond baseline audit requirements
Professional security management certification such as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) other similar credentials, is a huge plus
Accelerate your technical depth by working in a cutting-edge, modern infrastructure environment, gaining exposure to cloud-native architectures and complex, real-time systems
Broaden your impact and perspective by collaborating with highly integrated, globally distributed teams and working alongside world-class professionals across engineering, security, and other technical disciplines
Move beyond “check-the-box” compliance to influence how controls are designed and scaled in a fast-growing, regulated technology business
Gain meaningful ownership and visibility while helping shape a maturing audit and compliance program in a dynamic, evolving industry
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact both within Kraken and across the broader industry.\n\nThe ideal candidate is comfortable working cross-functionally across a variety of teams, including Finance, Technology, Engineering, and Security to inform sound, risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.\n\nThis is a fully remote role.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Lead and manage SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations under AICPA standards in a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment, partnering with external auditors and internal teams to design, implement, and continuously improve IT control processes\n\n - Support end-to-end SOX planning and execution, including IT system scoping, audit readiness, and development and delivery of training for control owners operating in a high-growth, regulated business\n\n - Act as a trusted advisor to Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance teams, translating SOX and audit requirements into practical, scalable controls aligned with modern technology stacks\n\n - 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Professional security management certification such as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) other similar credentials, is a huge plus\n\n\nWHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU\n\n - Accelerate your technical depth by working in a cutting-edge, modern infrastructure environment, gaining exposure to cloud-native architectures and complex, real-time systems\n\n - Broaden your impact and perspective by collaborating with highly integrated, globally distributed teams and working alongside world-class professionals across engineering, security, and other technical disciplines\n\n - Move beyond “check-the-box” compliance to influence how controls are designed and scaled in a fast-growing, regulated technology business\n\n - Gain meaningful ownership and visibility while helping shape a maturing audit and compliance program in a dynamic, evolving industry\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
Payward has world-class engineering, products, infrastructure, and regulatory assets. We’re building APIs, wallets, payment capabilities, developer tooling, and agent-native interfaces that can power the next generation of financial applications.
What we don’t yet have is the function responsible for making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.
We’re looking for the founding leader of that effort.
This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth. Your job will be to help create a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up - defining how developers discover our platform, how agents retrieve and interact with our services, and how we bring new infrastructure products to market.
This isn’t a traditional DevRel role.
You won’t inherit a mature playbook, established team, or existing motion. You’ll help create them.
You’ll partner closely with engineering teams building APIs, SDKs, wallets, payments infrastructure, and agent-facing products. You’ll help shape the products themselves, not just the documentation around them. You’ll establish the standards for developer experience, launch strategy, technical storytelling, and ecosystem engagement.
Our mission is simple: Make Payward the default infrastructure an AI agent selects when a developer asks for trading, payments, wallets, or financial services.
We’re looking for someone who wants to help build that capability for the long term - and who can grow into the leader of the organization that emerges from it.
Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces
Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals
Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with
Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one
Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure
Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform
Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences
Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction
Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization
Built and scaled developer adoption at a top-tier developer platform company such as Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Anthropic, GitHub, OpenAI, Twilio, Stainless, or equivalent
Strong technical credibility - you can read OpenAPI specifications, ship code, review integrations, and engage engineers as a peer
Proven track record of owning measurable adoption outcomes, not just awareness or engagement metrics
Exceptional storyteller capable of writing launch posts, delivering keynotes, creating demos, and making complex products feel intuitive
Builder mentality with a bias toward shipping and experimentation
Deep understanding of modern developer ecosystems and workflows
Agent-era literacy - you’ve worked with MCP servers, agent tooling, structured retrieval, or AI-native developer experiences and understand where retrieval beats SEO
Experience working closely with engineering and product teams to shape the developer experience itself, not just the messaging around it
Experience building developer platforms from an early stage rather than joining an already mature DevRel organization
Understanding of wallets, identity, authentication, and agent-native transaction flows
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n \n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nPayward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\n \n\nPayward has world-class engineering, products, infrastructure, and regulatory assets. We’re building APIs, wallets, payment capabilities, developer tooling, and agent-native interfaces that can power the next generation of financial applications.\n\n \n\nWhat we don’t yet have is the function responsible for making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.\n\n \n\nWe’re looking for the founding leader of that effort.\n\n \n\nThis role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth. Your job will be to help create a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up - defining how developers discover our platform, how agents retrieve and interact with our services, and how we bring new infrastructure products to market.\n\n \n\nThis isn’t a traditional DevRel role.\n\n \n\nYou won’t inherit a mature playbook, established team, or existing motion. You’ll help create them.\n\n \n\nYou’ll partner closely with engineering teams building APIs, SDKs, wallets, payments infrastructure, and agent-facing products. You’ll help shape the products themselves, not just the documentation around them. You’ll establish the standards for developer experience, launch strategy, technical storytelling, and ecosystem engagement.\n\n \n\nOur mission is simple: Make Payward the default infrastructure an AI agent selects when a developer asks for trading, payments, wallets, or financial services.\n\n \n\nWe’re looking for someone who wants to help build that capability for the long term - and who can grow into the leader of the organization that emerges from it.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces\n\n - Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals\n\n - Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with\n\n - Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one\n\n - Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure\n\n - Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform\n\n - Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences\n\n - Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction\n\n - Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Built and scaled developer adoption at a top-tier developer platform company such as Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Anthropic, GitHub, OpenAI, Twilio, Stainless, or equivalent\n\n - Strong technical credibility - you can read OpenAPI specifications, ship code, review integrations, and engage engineers as a peer\n\n - Proven track record of owning measurable adoption outcomes, not just awareness or engagement metrics\n\n - Exceptional storyteller capable of writing launch posts, delivering keynotes, creating demos, and making complex products feel intuitive\n\n - Builder mentality with a bias toward shipping and experimentation\n\n - Deep understanding of modern developer ecosystems and workflows\n\n - Agent-era literacy - you’ve worked with MCP servers, agent tooling, structured retrieval, or AI-native developer experiences and understand where retrieval beats SEO\n\n - Experience working closely with engineering and product teams to shape the developer experience itself, not just the messaging around it\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience building developer platforms from an early stage rather than joining an already mature DevRel organization\n\n - Understanding of wallets, identity, authentication, and agent-native transaction flows\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
Payward has world-class engineering, products, infrastructure, and regulatory assets. We’re building APIs, wallets, payment capabilities, developer tooling, and agent-native interfaces that can power the next generation of financial applications.
What we don’t yet have is the function responsible for making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.
We’re looking for the founding leader of that effort.
This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth. Your job will be to help create a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up - defining how developers discover our platform, how agents retrieve and interact with our services, and how we bring new infrastructure products to market.
This isn’t a traditional DevRel role.
You won’t inherit a mature playbook, established team, or existing motion. You’ll help create them.
You’ll partner closely with engineering teams building APIs, SDKs, wallets, payments infrastructure, and agent-facing products. You’ll help shape the products themselves, not just the documentation around them. You’ll establish the standards for developer experience, launch strategy, technical storytelling, and ecosystem engagement.
Our mission is simple: Make Payward the default infrastructure an AI agent selects when a developer asks for trading, payments, wallets, or financial services.
We’re looking for someone who wants to help build that capability for the long term - and who can grow into the leader of the organization that emerges from it.
Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces
Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals
Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with
Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one
Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure
Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform
Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences
Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction
Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization
Built and scaled developer adoption at a top-tier developer platform company such as Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Anthropic, GitHub, OpenAI, Twilio, Stainless, or equivalent
Strong technical credibility - you can read OpenAPI specifications, ship code, review integrations, and engage engineers as a peer
Proven track record of owning measurable adoption outcomes, not just awareness or engagement metrics
Exceptional storyteller capable of writing launch posts, delivering keynotes, creating demos, and making complex products feel intuitive
Builder mentality with a bias toward shipping and experimentation
Deep understanding of modern developer ecosystems and workflows
Agent-era literacy - you’ve worked with MCP servers, agent tooling, structured retrieval, or AI-native developer experiences and understand where retrieval beats SEO
Experience working closely with engineering and product teams to shape the developer experience itself, not just the messaging around it
Experience building developer platforms from an early stage rather than joining an already mature DevRel organization
Understanding of wallets, identity, authentication, and agent-native transaction flows
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\n\n\nPayward has world-class engineering, products, infrastructure, and regulatory assets. We’re building APIs, wallets, payment capabilities, developer tooling, and agent-native interfaces that can power the next generation of financial applications.\n\n \n\nWhat we don’t yet have is the function responsible for making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.\n\n \n\nWe’re looking for the founding leader of that effort.\n\n \n\nThis role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth. Your job will be to help create a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up - defining how developers discover our platform, how agents retrieve and interact with our services, and how we bring new infrastructure products to market.\n\n \n\nThis isn’t a traditional DevRel role.\n\n \n\nYou won’t inherit a mature playbook, established team, or existing motion. You’ll help create them.\n\n \n\nYou’ll partner closely with engineering teams building APIs, SDKs, wallets, payments infrastructure, and agent-facing products. You’ll help shape the products themselves, not just the documentation around them. You’ll establish the standards for developer experience, launch strategy, technical storytelling, and ecosystem engagement.\n\n \n\nOur mission is simple: Make Payward the default infrastructure an AI agent selects when a developer asks for trading, payments, wallets, or financial services.\n\n \n\nWe’re looking for someone who wants to help build that capability for the long term - and who can grow into the leader of the organization that emerges from it.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces\n\n - Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals\n\n - Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with\n\n - Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one\n\n - Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure\n\n - Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform\n\n - Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences\n\n - Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction\n\n - Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Built and scaled developer adoption at a top-tier developer platform company such as Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Anthropic, GitHub, OpenAI, Twilio, Stainless, or equivalent\n\n - Strong technical credibility - you can read OpenAPI specifications, ship code, review integrations, and engage engineers as a peer\n\n - Proven track record of owning measurable adoption outcomes, not just awareness or engagement metrics\n\n - Exceptional storyteller capable of writing launch posts, delivering keynotes, creating demos, and making complex products feel intuitive\n\n - Builder mentality with a bias toward shipping and experimentation\n\n - Deep understanding of modern developer ecosystems and workflows\n\n - Agent-era literacy - you’ve worked with MCP servers, agent tooling, structured retrieval, or AI-native developer experiences and understand where retrieval beats SEO\n\n - Experience working closely with engineering and product teams to shape the developer experience itself, not just the messaging around it\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience building developer platforms from an early stage rather than joining an already mature DevRel organization\n\n - Understanding of wallets, identity, authentication, and agent-native transaction flows\n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$134.2K – $298.9K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$134.2K - $298.9K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"bea88ace-2183-412a-806c-3acf7f739895","tierSummary":"$134.2K – $298.9K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"726e129b-4576-4491-bfc0-9543bf152ffa","summary":"$134.2K – $298.9K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":134200,"maxValue":298900},{"id":"d8db1690-2a4d-455c-a794-46ee2ad8cc45","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"82bf99a2-15c6-4a6c-aa25-8833714d4510","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":134200,"maxValue":298900},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"9253ed06-6c4e-4a1d-a73d-775f5d0d243c","title":"Sr. VIP Relationship Manager","department":"Marketing","team":"Growth","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-03T09:20:32.229+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/9253ed06-6c4e-4a1d-a73d-775f5d0d243c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/9253ed06-6c4e-4a1d-a73d-775f5d0d243c/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Private Client Relationship Management team supports Kraken's highest-value private clients, high-net-worth individuals who expect a premium, secure and highly tailored experience. This team ensures Kraken remains the exchange of choice for VIPs by delivering white-glove relationship management, personalised trading enablement and high-impact benefits.
We are looking for a VIP Relationship Manager to join our team remotely in the US. The number one goal of this role is to drive business growth by managing and expanding an existing network of high-net-worth clients. You'll nurture relationships with some of the largest whales in the space, helping them unlock the full value of Kraken's product suite while identifying new opportunities to deepen engagement.
You'll also play a key role in scaling and executing the best VIP programme in the industry, ensuring our clients enjoy a best-in-class experience that goes above and beyond expectations. Ultimately, you will have ownership and influence in shaping what a white-glove experience means for Kraken's HNWI clients.
We're looking for someone who isn't afraid to be bold, can build and scale initiatives from the ground up, and is humble enough to fail fast and move on to the next challenge. If you thrive in ambiguity and can operate in a fast-paced, scrappy environment, this role is for you.
Deliver consistent, high-quality service to HNWI clients worldwide, building and nurturing trusted relationships through exceptional account management.
Drive KPIs across revenue, trading volume and assets on platform through rigorous, data-driven analysis and proactive strategy execution.
Bring Kraken's private client and VIP offerings to market to ensure benefits remain impactful and competitive.
Serve as the trusted point of contact for Kraken's top private clients, building deep relationships and trust.
Execute programmes and initiatives that increase client activity, trading and assets on platform.
Leverage blockchain analytics, trading data and client insights to inform revenue-generating efforts and strategic decision-making.
Partner with product, marketing and client service teams to champion new efforts that drive private client growth and loyalty.
5+ years of experience in relationship management, account management or private client sales, including at least 2 years in the crypto space, with a track record of working with high-net-worth individuals.
Deep understanding of trading product solutions, including spot, margin and futures trading, as well as OTC trading and lending.
Ability to be scrappy, bold and unafraid to explore alternative and creative solutions to achieve results.
Highly data-driven, with expertise in analysing KPIs such as client portfolio revenue, trading volume and assets on platform.
Strong personal network within the crypto industry, particularly across HNWIs.
As a true degen, you bring deep knowledge of cryptocurrency ecosystems, their players, frameworks and market dynamics beyond just blue-chip tokens.
Fully aligned with the cypherpunk values outlined in Kraken's Tentaclements.
Passionate about the cryptocurrency world, with a proactive attitude toward learning new industry trends.
Skilled at building meaningful partnerships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and across diverse backgrounds.
Ability to travel up to 15% of the time to visit clients and attend events.
Fluency in English is required.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe Private Client Relationship Management team supports Kraken's highest-value private clients, high-net-worth individuals who expect a premium, secure and highly tailored experience. This team ensures Kraken remains the exchange of choice for VIPs by delivering white-glove relationship management, personalised trading enablement and high-impact benefits.\n\nWe are looking for a VIP Relationship Manager to join our team remotely in the US. The number one goal of this role is to drive business growth by managing and expanding an existing network of high-net-worth clients. You'll nurture relationships with some of the largest whales in the space, helping them unlock the full value of Kraken's product suite while identifying new opportunities to deepen engagement.\n\nYou'll also play a key role in scaling and executing the best VIP programme in the industry, ensuring our clients enjoy a best-in-class experience that goes above and beyond expectations. Ultimately, you will have ownership and influence in shaping what a white-glove experience means for Kraken's HNWI clients.\n\nWe're looking for someone who isn't afraid to be bold, can build and scale initiatives from the ground up, and is humble enough to fail fast and move on to the next challenge. If you thrive in ambiguity and can operate in a fast-paced, scrappy environment, this role is for you.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Deliver consistent, high-quality service to HNWI clients worldwide, building and nurturing trusted relationships through exceptional account management.\n\n - Drive KPIs across revenue, trading volume and assets on platform through rigorous, data-driven analysis and proactive strategy execution.\n\n - Bring Kraken's private client and VIP offerings to market to ensure benefits remain impactful and competitive.\n\n - Serve as the trusted point of contact for Kraken's top private clients, building deep relationships and trust.\n\n - Execute programmes and initiatives that increase client activity, trading and assets on platform.\n\n - Leverage blockchain analytics, trading data and client insights to inform revenue-generating efforts and strategic decision-making.\n\nPartner with product, marketing and client service teams to champion new efforts that drive private client growth and loyalty.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience in relationship management, account management or private client sales, including at least 2 years in the crypto space, with a track record of working with high-net-worth individuals.\n\n - Deep understanding of trading product solutions, including spot, margin and futures trading, as well as OTC trading and lending.\n\n - Ability to be scrappy, bold and unafraid to explore alternative and creative solutions to achieve results.\n\n - Highly data-driven, with expertise in analysing KPIs such as client portfolio revenue, trading volume and assets on platform.\n\n - Strong personal network within the crypto industry, particularly across HNWIs.\n\n - As a true degen, you bring deep knowledge of cryptocurrency ecosystems, their players, frameworks and market dynamics beyond just blue-chip tokens.\n\n - Fully aligned with the cypherpunk values outlined in Kraken's Tentaclements.\n\n - Passionate about the cryptocurrency world, with a proactive attitude toward learning new industry trends.\n\n - Skilled at building meaningful partnerships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and across diverse backgrounds.\n\n - Ability to travel up to 15% of the time to visit clients and attend events.\n\n - Fluency in English is required.\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K • Offers Equity • Offers Commission","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$83.4K - $166.8K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"cad82dbe-bd3b-490e-a479-0be1d9f3f59c","tierSummary":"$83.4K – $166.8K • Offers Equity • Offers Commission","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"e060cf38-e588-4204-a941-feefcb52d7aa","summary":"$83.4K – $166.8K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800},{"id":"226e6738-bde8-4636-8057-db1741d180d9","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"847553e6-9a9c-44a0-9924-bcf59e8faaf2","summary":"Offers Commission","compensationType":"Commission","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":83400,"maxValue":166800},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Commission","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"95b0206c-8168-49d5-8e6c-e0c5ff885cf6","title":"Mobile Design Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Frontend","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"United Arab Emirates","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United Arab Emirates"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-15T16:49:37.676+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/95b0206c-8168-49d5-8e6c-e0c5ff885cf6","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/95b0206c-8168-49d5-8e6c-e0c5ff885cf6/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Consumer Mobile team builds the Kraken app, the interface millions of people use to interact with their money. We work in React Native and care deeply about how the product feels, not just whether it functions. A trade confirmation should feel instantaneous. A portfolio should feel alive. Navigation should feel effortless. These details directly impact trust, and trust is everything in crypto.
Most companies treat design and engineering as two practices that translate to each other. We're hiring someone who treats them as one craft. The translation step is where most products lose what makes them feel good.
You'll own the feel of the Kraken app: the half-second a trade confirms, the way a chart loads, how a sheet rises from the bottom of the screen and lands where it physically should. On a product where people move their savings, moments like that build trust.
This is a mobile-first role on a React Native codebase. We work in Reanimated and Skia, bridge to native when we need to, and sweat the split between the JS thread and the UI thread.
Own the motion and interaction layer of the Kraken app. Easing, springs, gestures, transitions, haptics, sound. The perceptual surface from cold start to confirmation.
Evolve the mobile design system. You'll own the components other engineers reach for (gesture handlers, transition primitives, animated containers, motion tokens) and the standards that govern them.
Partner closely with product designers, challenging and elevating motion and interaction design from concept through implementation
Profile and optimise rendering performance, especially on lower-end Android devices where frame drops are unforgivable
Contribute to architectural decisions that affect UI responsiveness: state management, render cycles, and data flow into the view layer
Raise the bar for what 'great' means across the mobile org by review, by example, and by writing the patterns that make doing the right thing easier than doing the wrong thing.
A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of. We don't care which format; we care that we can see your craft.
Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went.
Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it.
Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive.
AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are.
Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads.
React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI.
Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call.
A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used.
A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code.
High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n \n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nThe Consumer Mobile team builds the Kraken app, the interface millions of people use to interact with their money. We work in React Native and care deeply about how the product feels, not just whether it functions. A trade confirmation should feel instantaneous. A portfolio should feel alive. Navigation should feel effortless. These details directly impact trust, and trust is everything in crypto.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nMost companies treat design and engineering as two practices that translate to each other. We're hiring someone who treats them as one craft. The translation step is where most products lose what makes them feel good.\n\n\n\nYou'll own the feel of the Kraken app: the half-second a trade confirms, the way a chart loads, how a sheet rises from the bottom of the screen and lands where it physically should. On a product where people move their savings, moments like that build trust.\n\n\n\nThis is a mobile-first role on a React Native codebase. We work in Reanimated and Skia, bridge to native when we need to, and sweat the split between the JS thread and the UI thread.\n\n\n\n - Own the motion and interaction layer of the Kraken app. Easing, springs, gestures, transitions, haptics, sound. The perceptual surface from cold start to confirmation.\n\n - Evolve the mobile design system. You'll own the components other engineers reach for (gesture handlers, transition primitives, animated containers, motion tokens) and the standards that govern them.\n\n - Partner closely with product designers, challenging and elevating motion and interaction design from concept through implementation\n\n - Profile and optimise rendering performance, especially on lower-end Android devices where frame drops are unforgivable\n\n - Contribute to architectural decisions that affect UI responsiveness: state management, render cycles, and data flow into the view layer\n\n - Raise the bar for what 'great' means across the mobile org by review, by example, and by writing the patterns that make doing the right thing easier than doing the wrong thing.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of. We don't care which format; we care that we can see your craft.\n\n - Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went.\n\n - Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it.\n\n - Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive.\n\n - AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are.\n\n - Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI.\n\n - Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call.\n\n - A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used.\n\n - A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code.\n\n - High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing.\n \n \n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
Payward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, and xStocks — has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry. Through Payward Services, we provide partners with a single integration point for crypto trading, custody, tokenized equities, derivatives, payments, yield products, and embedded multi-asset brokerage infrastructure.
We are seeking a high-calibre Account Executive to drive new business development for our Trading-as-a-Service platform across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, payments companies, wealth platforms, and consumer technology firms. This is a senior individual contributor and true hunter role, requiring end-to-end ownership of the sales lifecycle from outbound origination through contract execution and early-stage partner onboarding.
The ideal candidate brings an established institutional network and a strong understanding of capital markets, embedded finance, and digital assets, with the ability to structure and close strategic partnerships around crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, and API-first brokerage infrastructure. They will work closely with Product, Engineering, Liquidity, Compliance, and Legal teams to translate partner requirements into scalable commercial solutions and help clients launch institutional-grade trading experiences directly within their own products and ecosystems.
Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, consumer platforms, exchanges, and trading applications.
Drive new partnerships focused on crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, embedded brokerage, and multi-asset trading infrastructure.
Own the full sales cycle from outbound origination and discovery through commercial negotiation, signed agreement, and launch.
Lead commercial discussions with C-level, product, engineering, and business stakeholders across prospective partner organizations.
Position Payward Services as the partner of choice for companies seeking to launch or scale modern trading and investing experiences.
Help partners bring investing and trading capabilities directly into their products through Payward Services’ API-first infrastructure stack.
Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Client Success teams to structure and launch scalable commercial partnerships.
Identify new market opportunities across digital assets, tokenized finance, embedded investing, and next-generation trading applications.
Represent Payward Services at key industry conferences, client meetings, and ecosystem events globally.
Provide ongoing market feedback and competitive intelligence to help shape product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting, stakeholder mapping, and CRM hygiene across all commercial activities.
8+ years of sales or business development experience within financial services, fintech, embedded finance, capital markets infrastructure, or digital assets, with demonstrable success in a hunter/new business role.
Deep and active network of relationships across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, exchanges, payments companies, wealth platforms, and consumer technology companies at a decision-maker level.
Proven track record of originating and closing complex, multi-stakeholder B2B partnerships with 6-7 figure ACV/TCV structures.
Strong understanding of modern trading infrastructure including API-first trading platforms, embedded investing experiences, crypto spot and derivatives trading, tokenized equities, and multi-asset brokerage solutions.
Experience selling Trading-as-a-Service, embedded finance, API-based trading infrastructure, white-label brokerage, or multi-asset trading platforms.
Working knowledge of crypto markets, blockchain technology, tokenized assets, stablecoins, derivatives/futures, and emerging digital asset trading trends.
Ability to communicate complex technical, operational, and regulatory concepts in a clear and commercially compelling way to executive, product, and engineering stakeholders.
Comfortable operating across multiple time zones and managing a global client base from a European base.
Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in Finance, Economics, Business, Capital Markets, or a related field.
Prior experience at a crypto exchange, fintech infrastructure provider, embedded finance platform, or trading technology company.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\nPayward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, and xStocks — has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry. Through Payward Services, we provide partners with a single integration point for crypto trading, custody, tokenized equities, derivatives, payments, yield products, and embedded multi-asset brokerage infrastructure.\n\nWe are seeking a high-calibre Account Executive to drive new business development for our Trading-as-a-Service platform across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, payments companies, wealth platforms, and consumer technology firms. This is a senior individual contributor and true hunter role, requiring end-to-end ownership of the sales lifecycle from outbound origination through contract execution and early-stage partner onboarding.\n\nThe ideal candidate brings an established institutional network and a strong understanding of capital markets, embedded finance, and digital assets, with the ability to structure and close strategic partnerships around crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, and API-first brokerage infrastructure. They will work closely with Product, Engineering, Liquidity, Compliance, and Legal teams to translate partner requirements into scalable commercial solutions and help clients launch institutional-grade trading experiences directly within their own products and ecosystems.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, consumer platforms, exchanges, and trading applications.\n\n - Drive new partnerships focused on crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, embedded brokerage, and multi-asset trading infrastructure.\n\n - Own the full sales cycle from outbound origination and discovery through commercial negotiation, signed agreement, and launch.\n\n - Lead commercial discussions with C-level, product, engineering, and business stakeholders across prospective partner organizations.\n\n - Position Payward Services as the partner of choice for companies seeking to launch or scale modern trading and investing experiences.\n\n - Help partners bring investing and trading capabilities directly into their products through Payward Services’ API-first infrastructure stack.\n\n - Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Client Success teams to structure and launch scalable commercial partnerships.\n\n - Identify new market opportunities across digital assets, tokenized finance, embedded investing, and next-generation trading applications.\n\n - Represent Payward Services at key industry conferences, client meetings, and ecosystem events globally.\n\n - Provide ongoing market feedback and competitive intelligence to help shape product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.\n\n - Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting, stakeholder mapping, and CRM hygiene across all commercial activities.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of sales or business development experience within financial services, fintech, embedded finance, capital markets infrastructure, or digital assets, with demonstrable success in a hunter/new business role.\n\n - Deep and active network of relationships across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, exchanges, payments companies, wealth platforms, and consumer technology companies at a decision-maker level.\n\n - Proven track record of originating and closing complex, multi-stakeholder B2B partnerships with 6-7 figure ACV/TCV structures.\n\n - Strong understanding of modern trading infrastructure including API-first trading platforms, embedded investing experiences, crypto spot and derivatives trading, tokenized equities, and multi-asset brokerage solutions.\n\n - Experience selling Trading-as-a-Service, embedded finance, API-based trading infrastructure, white-label brokerage, or multi-asset trading platforms.\n\n - Working knowledge of crypto markets, blockchain technology, tokenized assets, stablecoins, derivatives/futures, and emerging digital asset trading trends.\n\n - Ability to communicate complex technical, operational, and regulatory concepts in a clear and commercially compelling way to executive, product, and engineering stakeholders.\n\n - Comfortable operating across multiple time zones and managing a global client base from a European base.\n\n - Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in Finance, Economics, Business, Capital Markets, or a related field.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Prior experience at a crypto exchange, fintech infrastructure provider, embedded finance platform, or trading technology company.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken is entering one of the most acquisitive phases in our history, and we're building the deal team to match. As a Business Operations & Integration Lead, you'll work across the full integration lifecycle — from acquisition due diligence and transaction execution through integration strategic planning and integration execution. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who has driven integration projects in fast-moving, high-growth companies, ideally within fintech or other rapidly growing tech industries.
Execute integration programs across multiple acquisitions per year using Kraken's M&A Integration playbook
Lead the full integration lifecycle—from early diligence through 12–24 months post-close
Drive workstream execution across product engineering, G&A, and value creation tracks
Translate deal thesis into detailed operational plans aligned to synergy targets and milestones
Maintain synergy tracking systems and hold functional teams accountable to execution timelines
Identify and own extraction of emerging synergy opportunities post-close
Partner with executive stakeholders across Corp Dev, Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and Legal
Maintain visibility into risk, timeline, interdependencies, and value realization across active integrations
Contribute to the continuous improvement of integration frameworks, templates, and operating rhythm
Hands-on experience driving M&A integrations at a fast-paced, high-growth company — managing multiple workstreams simultaneously
Fluency in integration methods, synergy frameworks, and governance models; experience contributing to or improving them is a plus
Demonstrated ability to coordinate and manage complex projects across product, engineering, finance, and G&A workstreams
Proven ability to drive stakeholder engagement throughout complex and/or lengthy integrations (6-18 months post-close) to ensure deal value realization
Proven ability to communicate clearly and directly across all levels, and a track record of keeping large cross-functional teams aligned and moving
Hands-on exposure to IT/systems integration (identity, endpoint management, ERP/finance platforms, collaboration tools) and HR/people integration (employment transitions, compensation harmonization, HRIS migration)
Experience with Corporate Development / M&A processes and due diligence is preferred
General management and/or startup experience is preferred
High-growth fintech or tech background preferred; crypto experience a plus
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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As a Business Operations & Integration Lead, you'll work across the full integration lifecycle — from acquisition due diligence and transaction execution through integration strategic planning and integration execution. 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We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in TS (React) and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure.
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications using React
Set the standard for high-quality code and lead complex software systems development
Significantly influence technical decisions, contribute to technical strategy discussions, and shape product/domain decisions with an expert understanding of engineering best practices
Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide constructive feedback
Master multiple technologies and stay ahead of the curve with new tools and trends
Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant systems, with a deep understanding of complex software development architecture and design patterns
Lead and collaborate on complex initiatives, and drive feedback and growth across teams
Drive process improvements and lead by example with advanced experience in multiple software development processes
6+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on web applications
Deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and proficiency with React ecosystem
Strong experience of API design, security, and performance optimization
Experience with Next.js and WebSockets
Experience with frontend testing frameworks
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tooling
Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices and principles
Experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
Hands-on experience in consumer payments, crypto or fintech mobile applications
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nThe Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in TS (React) and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure. https://blog.kraken.com/post/17936/performance-at-kraken/\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications using React\n\n - Set the standard for high-quality code and lead complex software systems development\n\n - Significantly influence technical decisions, contribute to technical strategy discussions, and shape product/domain decisions with an expert understanding of engineering best practices\n\n - Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide constructive feedback\n\n - Master multiple technologies and stay ahead of the curve with new tools and trends\n\n - Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant systems, with a deep understanding of complex software development architecture and design patterns\n\n - Lead and collaborate on complex initiatives, and drive feedback and growth across teams\n\n - Drive process improvements and lead by example with advanced experience in multiple software development processes\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 6+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on web applications\n\n - Deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and proficiency with React ecosystem \n\n - Strong experience of API design, security, and performance optimization\n\n - Experience with Next.js and WebSockets\n\n - Experience with frontend testing frameworks\n\n - Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tooling\n\n - Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices and principles\n\n - Experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup\n\n - Hands-on experience in consumer payments, crypto or fintech mobile applications\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication skills in English\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"ad27e3b9-35ce-4f61-81c8-21cd136340b2","title":"Staff Security Architect","department":"Security & IT","team":"Security & IT","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-19T17:34:11.530+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/ad27e3b9-35ce-4f61-81c8-21cd136340b2","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/ad27e3b9-35ce-4f61-81c8-21cd136340b2/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are seeking a skilled & hands-on Senior Security Architect for Kraken Security Labs. Kraken Security Labs provides boutique-style, deeply technical internal security consulting on current and future products.
We don't merely provide high-level guidance but indeed get deeply embedded in the different engineering teams and do not mind hands-on work.
Our projects span from classical infrastructure security projects, over cryptography, web3, and complex Rust projects, to securing our next generation of AI products.
You will work in a small, highly technical team and collaborate with teams all across the company & world.
Design, review & verify robust security architecture in a heterogeneous environment
Conduct thorough security assessments and audits of existing architectures, recommending practical improvements
Stay updated with latest (blockchain) security trends, threats and mitigation techniques
Provide expertise to our blockchain teams, ensuring secure operational practices
Proven experience as an IT security expert, with a strong background in application security
Experience in security testing diverse application
Experience with infrastructure security
Basic familiarity with security frameworks (OWASP, NIST, etc)
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively remotely work with stakeholders across the organization
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nWe are seeking a skilled & hands-on Senior Security Architect for Kraken Security Labs. Kraken Security Labs provides boutique-style, deeply technical internal security consulting on current and future products.\n\nWe don't merely provide high-level guidance but indeed get deeply embedded in the different engineering teams and do not mind hands-on work.\n\nOur projects span from classical infrastructure security projects, over cryptography, web3, and complex Rust projects, to securing our next generation of AI products.\n\nYou will work in a small, highly technical team and collaborate with teams all across the company & world.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design, review & verify robust security architecture in a heterogeneous environment\n\n - Conduct thorough security assessments and audits of existing architectures, recommending practical improvements\n\n - Stay updated with latest (blockchain) security trends, threats and mitigation techniques\n\n - Provide expertise to our blockchain teams, ensuring secure operational practices\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Proven experience as an IT security expert, with a strong background in application security\n\n - Experience in security testing diverse application\n\n - Experience with infrastructure security\n\n - Basic familiarity with security frameworks (OWASP, NIST, etc)\n\n - Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively remotely work with stakeholders across the organization\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$127.2K – $254.4K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$127.2K - $254.4K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"9d419879-028f-424a-b4f7-f8b1145fdaf5","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $127.2K – $254.4K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"93f96556-9329-4239-b69f-4a4336f0b589","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $127.2K – $254.4K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400},{"id":"8ccc5c08-ed8b-46f8-91a7-d61f41d6de50","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"d103b34e-35af-43a0-bc7f-93950f47e4c5","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"bd1f8aca-7a8d-4127-92c5-8e0dcc3771f3","title":"AI Agents Solutions Architect - Compliance","department":"Engineering","team":"AI & Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"United Arab Emirates","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United Arab Emirates"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-20T18:28:12.449+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/bd1f8aca-7a8d-4127-92c5-8e0dcc3771f3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/bd1f8aca-7a8d-4127-92c5-8e0dcc3771f3/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Payward's Global Compliance team is the regulatory backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges — spanning AML/KYC, sanctions, financial crime, regulatory affairs, and compliance operations across dozens of licensed entities and multiple geos.
You will serve as the primary architect and builder of AI-powered solutions within the Kraken Compliance team. This is a full-stack ownership role spanning opportunity identification, solution design, deployment, governance, and capability transfer. This global role will require you to work strategically to “automate everything” while building Compliance’s data driven machine across multiple jurisdictions and products (e.g. crypto, payments, futures, equities, custody, margin). Responsibilities span the following areas:
Design and deploy AI-powered Compliance solutions
Architect and build agentic workflows using n8n, Claude API, Python, and MCP that take real actions in Compliance processes with appropriate human oversight and approval gates.
Design and deliver solutions across priority Compliance use cases: alert pre-screening, case narrative generation, regulatory change summarization, EDD report drafting, and audit-ready documentation.
Build scalable, automated analytics solutions that deliver high-quality, repeatable risk insights for Compliance leadership and regulators.
Apply AI-enabled techniques for text analysis, transaction pattern recognition, and workflow automation to surface actionable signals from high-volume data.
Build error handling, audit trails, regulatory-calendar awareness, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into every production system before deployment.
Ensure all automations comply with data classification requirements for customer PII, regulated financial data, and cross-jurisdictional privacy obligations including GDPR and applicable AML data retention rules.
Own governance and risk for Compliance AI systems
Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls confirmed, and regulatory impact assessed.
Maintain audit logging and documentation for all systems touching regulated data, SAR workflows, or sanctions-adjacent processes.
Halt or redesign builds that introduce unacceptable regulatory, legal, or data privacy risk. Own that decision and secure organizational acceptance before proceeding.
Serve as the Compliance domain representative in contributing to governance standards, model risk management, and cross-functional build alignment across the Automate Everything initiative.
Multiply the Compliance team's capability
Produce documentation, workflow templates, and runbooks that Compliance professionals can use and maintain without technical support.
Train Compliance team members on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption, not just delivery.
Track and report on automation impact: alert review time reduced, case throughput increased, regulatory report cycle time shortened, and analyst capacity unlocked for higher-risk work.
Act as a force multiplier for the Compliance team, enabling investigators and analysts to focus on high-judgment, high-risk decisions through process, technology, and AI enablement.
8+ years of experience in Compliance operations, financial crime, regulatory technology, or a combined compliance and technical role with demonstrated senior-level execution.
Strong fluency with AI and workflow automation tools, with demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and driving adoption of AI solutions within Compliance or RegTech workflows.
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-powered or automated workflows in a production environment used by others, not just experimentation.
Deep working knowledge of anti-financial crime (e.g. AML/CFT, sanctions, transaction monitoring systems), capital markets compliance (e.g. sales and trading, market conduct, transaction surveillance, conflicts management) and data privacy frameworks.
Systems thinker with a strong implementation mindset -- able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.
Proficiency with AI tooling stack: n8n, Python, Claude API/Anthropic SDK, or equivalent. Experience connecting Compliance systems via API is required.
Strong analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous compliance questions into clear, actionable, automated analysis.
Solid understanding of data classification, customer PII handling, and cross-jurisdictional compliance obligations including GDPR, BSA, FATF standards, and applicable AML data retention requirements.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to translate technical automation solutions and complex analytical results for Compliance professionals, senior leadership, and regulators who are not technical.
Experience with case management platforms (Actimize, NICE Actimize, Quantexa, or equivalent) and their API or integration architecture.
Experience using AI for document analysis, transaction narrative generation, or regulatory report drafting in a financial crime or compliance context.
Familiarity with regulatory examination readiness: documentation standards, model risk governance, and audit trail requirements for AI-assisted compliance decisions.
Experience with spreadsheet automation (Google Apps Script or equivalent) and advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets for compliance analytics.
Python programming skills for transaction data analysis, risk scoring models, or compliance pipeline automation.
Background in compliance technology platform administration: AML systems, KYC platforms, case management, markets business conduct or sanctions screening tools.
Prior experience standing up or operating a RegTech, compliance automation, or financial crime analytics function.
Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, capital markets or a regulated financial institution operating across multiple jurisdictions with exposure to FinCEN, SEC, FCA, MAS, or equivalent regulatory bodies.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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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","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nPayward's Global Compliance team is the regulatory backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges — spanning AML/KYC, sanctions, financial crime, regulatory affairs, and compliance operations across dozens of licensed entities and multiple geos.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nYou will serve as the primary architect and builder of AI-powered solutions within the Kraken Compliance team. This is a full-stack ownership role spanning opportunity identification, solution design, deployment, governance, and capability transfer. This global role will require you to work strategically to “automate everything” while building Compliance’s data driven machine across multiple jurisdictions and products (e.g. crypto, payments, futures, equities, custody, margin). Responsibilities span the following areas:\n\nDesign and deploy AI-powered Compliance solutions\n\n - Architect and build agentic workflows using n8n, Claude API, Python, and MCP that take real actions in Compliance processes with appropriate human oversight and approval gates.\n\n - Design and deliver solutions across priority Compliance use cases: alert pre-screening, case narrative generation, regulatory change summarization, EDD report drafting, and audit-ready documentation.\n\n - Build scalable, automated analytics solutions that deliver high-quality, repeatable risk insights for Compliance leadership and regulators.\n\n - Apply AI-enabled techniques for text analysis, transaction pattern recognition, and workflow automation to surface actionable signals from high-volume data.\n\n - Build error handling, audit trails, regulatory-calendar awareness, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into every production system before deployment.\n\n - Ensure all automations comply with data classification requirements for customer PII, regulated financial data, and cross-jurisdictional privacy obligations including GDPR and applicable AML data retention rules.\n\nOwn governance and risk for Compliance AI systems\n\n - Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls confirmed, and regulatory impact assessed.\n\n - Maintain audit logging and documentation for all systems touching regulated data, SAR workflows, or sanctions-adjacent processes.\n\n - Halt or redesign builds that introduce unacceptable regulatory, legal, or data privacy risk. Own that decision and secure organizational acceptance before proceeding.\n\n - Serve as the Compliance domain representative in contributing to governance standards, model risk management, and cross-functional build alignment across the Automate Everything initiative.\n\nMultiply the Compliance team's capability\n\n - Produce documentation, workflow templates, and runbooks that Compliance professionals can use and maintain without technical support.\n\n - Train Compliance team members on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption, not just delivery.\n\n - Track and report on automation impact: alert review time reduced, case throughput increased, regulatory report cycle time shortened, and analyst capacity unlocked for higher-risk work.\n\n - Act as a force multiplier for the Compliance team, enabling investigators and analysts to focus on high-judgment, high-risk decisions through process, technology, and AI enablement.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years of experience in Compliance operations, financial crime, regulatory technology, or a combined compliance and technical role with demonstrated senior-level execution.\n\n - Strong fluency with AI and workflow automation tools, with demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and driving adoption of AI solutions within Compliance or RegTech workflows.\n\n - Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-powered or automated workflows in a production environment used by others, not just experimentation.\n\n - Deep working knowledge of anti-financial crime (e.g. AML/CFT, sanctions, transaction monitoring systems), capital markets compliance (e.g. sales and trading, market conduct, transaction surveillance, conflicts management) and data privacy frameworks.\n\n - Systems thinker with a strong implementation mindset -- able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.\n\n - Proficiency with AI tooling stack: n8n, Python, Claude API/Anthropic SDK, or equivalent. Experience connecting Compliance systems via API is required.\n\n - Strong analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous compliance questions into clear, actionable, automated analysis.\n\n - Solid understanding of data classification, customer PII handling, and cross-jurisdictional compliance obligations including GDPR, BSA, FATF standards, and applicable AML data retention requirements.\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to translate technical automation solutions and complex analytical results for Compliance professionals, senior leadership, and regulators who are not technical.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with case management platforms (Actimize, NICE Actimize, Quantexa, or equivalent) and their API or integration architecture.\n\n - Experience using AI for document analysis, transaction narrative generation, or regulatory report drafting in a financial crime or compliance context.\n\n - Familiarity with regulatory examination readiness: documentation standards, model risk governance, and audit trail requirements for AI-assisted compliance decisions.\n\n - Experience with spreadsheet automation (Google Apps Script or equivalent) and advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets for compliance analytics.\n\n - Python programming skills for transaction data analysis, risk scoring models, or compliance pipeline automation.\n\n - Background in compliance technology platform administration: AML systems, KYC platforms, case management, markets business conduct or sanctions screening tools.\n\n - Prior experience standing up or operating a RegTech, compliance automation, or financial crime analytics function.\n\n - Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, capital markets or a regulated financial institution operating across multiple jurisdictions with exposure to FinCEN, SEC, FCA, MAS, or equivalent regulatory bodies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"bd75ddab-ed65-4302-9687-d53302f18a97","title":"Senior Product Manager - Trading-as-a-service","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-01T14:38:20.443+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/bd75ddab-ed65-4302-9687-d53302f18a97","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/bd75ddab-ed65-4302-9687-d53302f18a97/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.
Within Payward Services, Trading-as-a-Service is the product line that powers trading inside partner apps. We help fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms offer their users digital asset trading — spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders — without building exchange infrastructure from scratch. The partner owns the front end and the brand; we run execution, liquidity, and market connectivity underneath, exposed through modular APIs that go live in weeks, not quarters.
We're hiring a Senior PM to drive Trading-as-a-Service. Reporting to the Trading GM, this is a hands-on, builder-first, API-first role. You'll shape what we build, define how partners integrate it, and work directly with clients to make sure the product holds up in real-world deployments. You won't carry a sales quota — but the products you ship directly drive Payward Services revenue.
Own the roadmap and execution across the Trade surfaces — Convert & Trade, PTL-as-a-Service (custodial and non-custodial), Orderbook/CLOB API, Recurring Buys, Limit Orders, and PTL + xStocks (tokenized equities) — and lead the full lifecycle from discovery through build, launch, and iteration
Work directly with partners (fintechs, banks, brokerages, platforms) to understand integration requirements, unblock deployments, and ensure product-market fit
Drive product decisions on trading UX patterns, API design, custody models, and compliance workflows for B2B2C use cases
Treat the API as the product: design the REST/WebSocket surfaces, auth, webhooks, SDKs, and docs that determine whether a partner integrates in weeks or stalls
Make the hard product calls on execution models (RFQ/internalized-spread vs. CLOB maker-taker), custody models (custodial vs. non-custodial), account structures (omnibus vs. fully-disclosed, master/sub-account settlement), and the compliance workflows around them
Own the metrics that matter: partner integration velocity, trading volume, assets on platform (AOP), end-user activation, and revenue impact
Collaborate with the Derivatives team on jointly-owned crypto derivatives capabilities
Partner with Sales and BD on strategic deals — demos, technical scoping, custom integration planning
6+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time building B2B2C infrastructure — ideally platforms that help companies add trading, brokerage, or financial services to their own apps
B2B / developer-facing API product experience - You've owned API products that external partners build against, and you understand what makes integration fast or painful: API design, auth, webhooks, sandbox environments, SDKs, multi-tenant architecture, onboarding friction. Alternatively: deep trading/exchange product experience and the appetite to grind into the B2B API problem
Hands-on experience with trading platforms or exchange infrastructure — order types, execution models, custody, settlement — and what it takes to ship trading products at scale (exchange, brokerage, or trading-infra background strongly preferred)
Technical fluency: you hold your own in architecture discussions, make informed build/buy tradeoffs, and challenge engineering when needed
Experience in regulated financial services, operating within compliance and licensing constraints across multiple jurisdictions
Strong product sense with commercial awareness — you lead with product but understand how roadmap choices drive revenue, without needing a quota to motivate you
Comfort in ambiguity: you move fast, decide with imperfect information, and adapt as the business scales
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nPayward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\n\nWithin Payward Services, Trading-as-a-Service is the product line that powers trading inside partner apps. We help fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms offer their users digital asset trading — spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders — without building exchange infrastructure from scratch. The partner owns the front end and the brand; we run execution, liquidity, and market connectivity underneath, exposed through modular APIs that go live in weeks, not quarters.\n\nWe're hiring a Senior PM to drive Trading-as-a-Service. Reporting to the Trading GM, this is a hands-on, builder-first, API-first role. You'll shape what we build, define how partners integrate it, and work directly with clients to make sure the product holds up in real-world deployments. You won't carry a sales quota — but the products you ship directly drive Payward Services revenue.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own the roadmap and execution across the Trade surfaces — Convert & Trade, PTL-as-a-Service (custodial and non-custodial), Orderbook/CLOB API, Recurring Buys, Limit Orders, and PTL + xStocks (tokenized equities) — and lead the full lifecycle from discovery through build, launch, and iteration\n\n - Work directly with partners (fintechs, banks, brokerages, platforms) to understand integration requirements, unblock deployments, and ensure product-market fit\n\n - Drive product decisions on trading UX patterns, API design, custody models, and compliance workflows for B2B2C use cases\n\n - Treat the API as the product: design the REST/WebSocket surfaces, auth, webhooks, SDKs, and docs that determine whether a partner integrates in weeks or stalls\n\n - Make the hard product calls on execution models (RFQ/internalized-spread vs. CLOB maker-taker), custody models (custodial vs. non-custodial), account structures (omnibus vs. fully-disclosed, master/sub-account settlement), and the compliance workflows around them\n\n - Own the metrics that matter: partner integration velocity, trading volume, assets on platform (AOP), end-user activation, and revenue impact\n\n - Collaborate with the Derivatives team on jointly-owned crypto derivatives capabilities\n\n - Partner with Sales and BD on strategic deals — demos, technical scoping, custom integration planning\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 6+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time building B2B2C infrastructure — ideally platforms that help companies add trading, brokerage, or financial services to their own apps\n\n - B2B / developer-facing API product experience - You've owned API products that external partners build against, and you understand what makes integration fast or painful: API design, auth, webhooks, sandbox environments, SDKs, multi-tenant architecture, onboarding friction. Alternatively: deep trading/exchange product experience and the appetite to grind into the B2B API problem\n\n - Hands-on experience with trading platforms or exchange infrastructure — order types, execution models, custody, settlement — and what it takes to ship trading products at scale (exchange, brokerage, or trading-infra background strongly preferred)\n\n - Technical fluency: you hold your own in architecture discussions, make informed build/buy tradeoffs, and challenge engineering when needed\n\n - Experience in regulated financial services, operating within compliance and licensing constraints across multiple jurisdictions\n\n - Strong product sense with commercial awareness — you lead with product but understand how roadmap choices drive revenue, without needing a quota to motivate you\n\n - Comfort in ambiguity: you move fast, decide with imperfect information, and adapt as the business scales\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The AI Infrastructure team sits within the Data organization and is responsible for building, operating, and scaling the systems that power AI agents in production — both internal tools and external-facing products. Working closely with the AI and Agent Systems teams, this group ensures that the orchestration, execution, and model-serving layers underpinning agentic workflows are reliable, observable, and built to scale.
This team operates at the intersection of data infrastructure and applied AI — a space that moves fast and demands engineers who can bring production discipline to emerging technology. You'll partner across Data Engineering, ML, and product-facing teams to harden agent infrastructure and keep it running at the standards our users expect.
Importantly, this is a platform engineering team. Beyond operating infrastructure, the team is responsible for building the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable AI, Data, and Engineering teams to safely and efficiently consume agent infrastructure as a service. Success in this role requires thinking beyond infrastructure operations and toward developer experience, platform adoption, and long-term scalability.
Design, build, and operate the infrastructure layer supporting AI agent workflows in production
Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of agentic systems across internal and external products
Design and develop platform services, APIs, SDKs, and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to easily consume AI infrastructure and agent platform services
Manage and maintain the compute, orchestration, and serving infrastructure powering model inference and agent execution
Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures tailored to AI/ML workloads
Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud (AWS) infrastructure components
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of AI services and agent workflows
Define and implement guardrails, failure handling, and recovery patterns specific to agentic and LLM-powered systems
Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to translate experimental agent prototypes into hardened production systems
Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI services
Implement access controls and security best practices across AI infrastructure environments
Document architecture, runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing across the team
5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a production environment
Hands-on experience supporting ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps workflows in production
Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, APIs, or SDKs consumed by engineering teams at scale
Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, including developer experience, self-service infrastructure, and API-driven platform design
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform
Experience with containerization and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes and Docker
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Strong scripting skills (bash/shell) and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
Experience designing and operating observability, monitoring, and alerting systems
Experience implementing incident response procedures and participating in on-call rotations
Strong collaboration skills working across data, AI, and engineering teams
High ownership mindset in a fast-moving, high-stakes production environment
Experience building or operating infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems
Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar)
Background in data infrastructure, including familiarity with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or data lake tooling
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI/ML workloads
Exposure to evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale
Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 environments or platform-building teams
Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or internal platform products with a strong focus on usability and adoption
Experience with Cloudflare's cloud platform and product ecosystem, including networking, security, performance, and Zero Trust solutions
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe AI Infrastructure team sits within the Data organization and is responsible for building, operating, and scaling the systems that power AI agents in production — both internal tools and external-facing products. Working closely with the AI and Agent Systems teams, this group ensures that the orchestration, execution, and model-serving layers underpinning agentic workflows are reliable, observable, and built to scale.\n\nThis team operates at the intersection of data infrastructure and applied AI — a space that moves fast and demands engineers who can bring production discipline to emerging technology. You'll partner across Data Engineering, ML, and product-facing teams to harden agent infrastructure and keep it running at the standards our users expect.\n\nImportantly, this is a platform engineering team. Beyond operating infrastructure, the team is responsible for building the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable AI, Data, and Engineering teams to safely and efficiently consume agent infrastructure as a service. Success in this role requires thinking beyond infrastructure operations and toward developer experience, platform adoption, and long-term scalability.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design, build, and operate the infrastructure layer supporting AI agent workflows in production\n\n - Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of agentic systems across internal and external products\n\n - Design and develop platform services, APIs, SDKs, and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to easily consume AI infrastructure and agent platform services\n\n - Manage and maintain the compute, orchestration, and serving infrastructure powering model inference and agent execution\n\n - Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures tailored to AI/ML workloads\n\n - Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud (AWS) infrastructure components\n\n - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of AI services and agent workflows\n\n - Define and implement guardrails, failure handling, and recovery patterns specific to agentic and LLM-powered systems\n\n - Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to translate experimental agent prototypes into hardened production systems\n\n - Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI services\n\n - Implement access controls and security best practices across AI infrastructure environments\n\n - Document architecture, runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing across the team\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a production environment\n\n - Hands-on experience supporting ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps workflows in production\n\n - Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, APIs, or SDKs consumed by engineering teams at scale\n\n - Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, including developer experience, self-service infrastructure, and API-driven platform design\n\n - Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform\n\n - Experience with containerization and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes and Docker\n\n - Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS\n\n - Strong scripting skills (bash/shell) and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)\n\n - Experience designing and operating observability, monitoring, and alerting systems\n\n - Experience implementing incident response procedures and participating in on-call rotations\n\n - Strong collaboration skills working across data, AI, and engineering teams\n\n - High ownership mindset in a fast-moving, high-stakes production environment\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience building or operating infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems\n\n - Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar)\n\n - Background in data infrastructure, including familiarity with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or data lake tooling\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI/ML workloads\n\n - Exposure to evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale\n\n - Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 environments or platform-building teams\n\n - Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or internal platform products with a strong focus on usability and adoption\n\n - Experience with Cloudflare's cloud platform and product ecosystem, including networking, security, performance, and Zero Trust solutions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
As the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.
We are seeking a License Operations and Strategy Manager to help steer that evolution — a commercial, strategic operator who can connect regulatory compliance with business opportunity.
Strategic & Commercial Leadership
Partner with the License Operations & Entity leadership team to define and execute Kraken’s license operations strategy — balancing operational excellence with commercial outcomes and product launches.
Build business and operational models that support and maintain new product launches, market entries, and licensing pathways.
Translate regulatory milestones into tangible business opportunities (e.g., new services, expanded client offerings, or passporting advantages).
Identify and evaluate strategic partnerships and outsourcing arrangements that enhance scalability or regulatory efficiency.
Operational & Regulatory Execution
Execute operational model across EU MiCAR, and other Payward/Kraken Legal Entities including product launches, regulatory examinations, MI generation and commercial initiatives.
Drive end-to-end execution of EU MiCAR, and other entities regulatory projects and Product Launches, coordinating across Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Finance.
Identify, deploy, and leverage generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) to streamline workflows, automate operational processes, and enhance efficiency, decision-making, and scalability across regulatory and commercial initiatives.
Analyze and research developing regulatory regimes and provide strategic recommendations with cross-functional input.
Support regulatory deliverables, submissions, and communications with supervisors.
Support the preparation of Board and Committee materials, including regulatory updates, operational MI, outsourcing oversight reporting, and strategic initiatives for regulated entities.
Coordinate governance cycles across large CBI-regulated entities, ensuring timely escalation, approvals, action tracking, and alignment with Board, Risk, Compliance, and Audit Committee requirements.
Drive effective governance and stakeholder engagement by maintaining governance calendars, supporting Board reporting processes, and ensuring regulatory obligations and decision-making forums operate efficiently across multiple jurisdictions.
Prepare executive and Board-level reporting that translates regulatory, operational, and commercial developments into clear risk, performance, and strategic insights for senior leadership and non-executive directors.
Outsourcing & Third Party Management
Oversee, advise and support all parties in the performance of all ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews of Outsourcing arrangements to include Third Party engagements.
Measure performance of outsourced service providers to agreed SLA, key performance indicators and track on a regular basis and maintain records of these outsourcing oversight activities.
Ensure accurate and timely assessment reports, trend analysis and feedback is provided to the Compliance and Risk Committee.
Assist in ensuring third-party risk management and outsourcing policies and procedures adhere to regulatory standards. Responsible for keeping up to date with changing regulations in relevant jurisdictions and application of knowledge to the role. Coordinate with Compliance, Operational Risk and internal /external audit to meet group and regulatory requirements.
Act as point of contact for outsourcing related queries and provide guidance and training in line with third party management and outsourcing policy, procedures and regulations to the internal clients and stakeholders;
Assess proposed new engagements and maintain records of these outsourcing oversight activities, and participate in client due diligence, RFPs or external third-party provider assessments as required.
Cross-Functional Influence
Act as the central point of integration between regulatory strategy and operational execution.
Lead cross-functional working groups, manage dependencies, and drive visibility across leadership on progress, risks, and opportunities.
Support commercial and product teams in understanding MiCAR constraints and opportunities when designing new offerings.
Deliver strategic updates and performance insights to executives and the board, linking regulatory progress to market positioning.
5–8 years in top-tier consulting, strategy, or operations leadership — ideally in financial services, fintech, or crypto.
Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with a commercial or regulatory focus.
Understanding of EU regulatory frameworks (EMRs, MiCAR, MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5/6, DORA, etc.).
Strong grasp of business and financial models — able to quantify how regulatory design impacts revenue, cost, and scalability.
Deep experience in outsourcing oversight, vendor performance, and regulatory submissions.
Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and executive communication skills.
Commercially astute — connects regulatory compliance with business growth and customer trust.
Operates with a consulting mindset: structured, analytical, and action-oriented.
Thrives in ambiguity and moves quickly from concept to execution.
Collaborative, low-ego, and able to influence senior stakeholders.
Passionate about crypto, innovation, and responsible scaling in regulated environments.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nAs the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships.\n\n\n\nWe are seeking a License Operations and Strategy Manager to help steer that evolution — a commercial, strategic operator who can connect regulatory compliance with business opportunity.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n\n\nStrategic & Commercial Leadership\n\n - Partner with the License Operations & Entity leadership team to define and execute Kraken’s license operations strategy — balancing operational excellence with commercial outcomes and product launches.\n\n - Build business and operational models that support and maintain new product launches, market entries, and licensing pathways.\n\n - Translate regulatory milestones into tangible business opportunities (e.g., new services, expanded client offerings, or passporting advantages).\n\n - Identify and evaluate strategic partnerships and outsourcing arrangements that enhance scalability or regulatory efficiency.\n \n\nOperational & Regulatory Execution\n\n - Execute operational model across EU MiCAR, and other Payward/Kraken Legal Entities including product launches, regulatory examinations, MI generation and commercial initiatives.\n\n - Drive end-to-end execution of EU MiCAR, and other entities regulatory projects and Product Launches, coordinating across Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Finance.\n\n - Identify, deploy, and leverage generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) to streamline workflows, automate operational processes, and enhance efficiency, decision-making, and scalability across regulatory and commercial initiatives.\n\n - Analyze and research developing regulatory regimes and provide strategic recommendations with cross-functional input.\n\n - Support regulatory deliverables, submissions, and communications with supervisors.\n\n - Support the preparation of Board and Committee materials, including regulatory updates, operational MI, outsourcing oversight reporting, and strategic initiatives for regulated entities.\n\n - Coordinate governance cycles across large CBI-regulated entities, ensuring timely escalation, approvals, action tracking, and alignment with Board, Risk, Compliance, and Audit Committee requirements.\n\n - Drive effective governance and stakeholder engagement by maintaining governance calendars, supporting Board reporting processes, and ensuring regulatory obligations and decision-making forums operate efficiently across multiple jurisdictions.\n\n - Prepare executive and Board-level reporting that translates regulatory, operational, and commercial developments into clear risk, performance, and strategic insights for senior leadership and non-executive directors.\n\n\n\nOutsourcing & Third Party Management\n\n - Oversee, advise and support all parties in the performance of all ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews of Outsourcing arrangements to include Third Party engagements.\n\n - Measure performance of outsourced service providers to agreed SLA, key performance indicators and track on a regular basis and maintain records of these outsourcing oversight activities.\n\n - Ensure accurate and timely assessment reports, trend analysis and feedback is provided to the Compliance and Risk Committee.\n\n - Assist in ensuring third-party risk management and outsourcing policies and procedures adhere to regulatory standards. Responsible for keeping up to date with changing regulations in relevant jurisdictions and application of knowledge to the role. Coordinate with Compliance, Operational Risk and internal /external audit to meet group and regulatory requirements.\n\n - Act as point of contact for outsourcing related queries and provide guidance and training in line with third party management and outsourcing policy, procedures and regulations to the internal clients and stakeholders;\n\n - Assess proposed new engagements and maintain records of these outsourcing oversight activities, and participate in client due diligence, RFPs or external third-party provider assessments as required.\n\n\n\nCross-Functional Influence\n\n - Act as the central point of integration between regulatory strategy and operational execution.\n\n - Lead cross-functional working groups, manage dependencies, and drive visibility across leadership on progress, risks, and opportunities.\n\n - Support commercial and product teams in understanding MiCAR constraints and opportunities when designing new offerings.\n\n - Deliver strategic updates and performance insights to executives and the board, linking regulatory progress to market positioning.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5–8 years in top-tier consulting, strategy, or operations leadership — ideally in financial services, fintech, or crypto.\n\n - Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with a commercial or regulatory focus.\n\n - Understanding of EU regulatory frameworks (EMRs, MiCAR, MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5/6, DORA, etc.).\n\n - Strong grasp of business and financial models — able to quantify how regulatory design impacts revenue, cost, and scalability.\n\n - Deep experience in outsourcing oversight, vendor performance, and regulatory submissions.\n\n - Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and executive communication skills.\n\n - Commercially astute — connects regulatory compliance with business growth and customer trust.\n\n - Operates with a consulting mindset: structured, analytical, and action-oriented.\n\n - Thrives in ambiguity and moves quickly from concept to execution.\n\n - Collaborative, low-ego, and able to influence senior stakeholders.\n\n - Passionate about crypto, innovation, and responsible scaling in regulated environments.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"c5ff2169-9186-4758-bfd7-1bdd706c42ad","title":"Senior Database Administrator","department":"Engineering","team":"Core Infrastructure","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Sweden","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Sweden"}}},{"location":"Colombia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Colombia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Chile","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Chile"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-20T13:21:23.195+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/c5ff2169-9186-4758-bfd7-1bdd706c42ad","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/c5ff2169-9186-4758-bfd7-1bdd706c42ad/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
You will join a senior team of DBAs, SREs, and platform engineers responsible for the database and vector data platforms behind Kraken's most critical services. The group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset: we design systems that let engineering teams move quickly while preserving strong guarantees around performance, correctness, security, and reliability.
The team is entering an important phase of evolution as Kraken continues to expand globally and as AI-enabled product and internal platform use cases grow. Over the next year, we are focused on strengthening PostgreSQL operational excellence, building reliable vector data capabilities, preparing for significant future scale, and increasing automation and self-service so database operations become safer and more efficient at scale.
This is not a traditional keep-the-lights-on DBA team. Our work centers on scaling high-throughput PostgreSQL environments, operating vector search and embedding stores with production discipline, shaping reliable patterns for high-traffic systems, and transforming operational knowledge into automated, auditable workflows that uplift the engineering organization.
Scale and tune high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters that support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.
Own PostgreSQL reliability fundamentals: WAL behavior, checkpoints, autovacuum, query planning, locking, replication lag, backup/restore, and capacity planning.
Help build and operate vector data capabilities, including pgvector and dedicated VectorDB platforms where appropriate.
Define production patterns for embeddings, approximate nearest neighbor indexes, metadata filtering, recall/latency tradeoffs, reindexing, data freshness, and drift management.
Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, PITR, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.
Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.
Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across PostgreSQL and vector workloads.
Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, encryption, auditability, and secure operational patterns.
Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, GitOps, reproducible deployments, and self-service database operations.
Partner with service, AI, and platform teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, data hygiene, and safe use of vector search across the engineering organization.
Participate in on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, well-instrumented, and shaped by preventative engineering.
5+ years operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments, including performance tuning, replication, backup/restore, upgrades, and incident troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations: MVCC, transaction isolation, locks, WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum, bloat, statistics, query planner behavior, partitioning, and index strategy.
Hands-on experience with high availability and read scaling: streaming replication, replication slots, failover, lag management, PITR, backups, and disaster-recovery drills.
Experience with connection pooling and traffic management for PostgreSQL, especially PgBouncer, HAProxy, Kubernetes service routing, or comparable patterns.
Practical VectorDB or vector search experience, such as pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, OpenSearch vector search, or similar systems.
Ability to reason about vector index types and operational tradeoffs, including HNSW/IVFFlat-style indexes, recall, latency, memory, ingestion throughput, metadata filters, rebuilds, and versioned embeddings.
Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows. Terraform experience is ideal.
Solid cloud, Linux, storage, and networking fundamentals.
Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, including building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale.
Strong security instincts around access control, credential lifecycle, encryption, auditability, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.
Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, SLOs, dashboards, query-level visibility, and readiness for incident response.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation, and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.
Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, reliability programs, and failure exercises.
Strong scripting or programming ability, preferably Python, Go, or Rust, used to build automation and internal tools.
Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Exposure to multi-region, multi-datacenter, or active/passive disaster-recovery designs.
Experience supporting AI, retrieval, personalization, fraud, search, or recommendation systems that depend on embeddings or hybrid search.
Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nYou will join a senior team of DBAs, SREs, and platform engineers responsible for the database and vector data platforms behind Kraken's most critical services. The group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset: we design systems that let engineering teams move quickly while preserving strong guarantees around performance, correctness, security, and reliability.\n\nThe team is entering an important phase of evolution as Kraken continues to expand globally and as AI-enabled product and internal platform use cases grow. Over the next year, we are focused on strengthening PostgreSQL operational excellence, building reliable vector data capabilities, preparing for significant future scale, and increasing automation and self-service so database operations become safer and more efficient at scale.\n\nThis is not a traditional keep-the-lights-on DBA team. Our work centers on scaling high-throughput PostgreSQL environments, operating vector search and embedding stores with production discipline, shaping reliable patterns for high-traffic systems, and transforming operational knowledge into automated, auditable workflows that uplift the engineering organization.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Scale and tune high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters that support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.\n\n - Own PostgreSQL reliability fundamentals: WAL behavior, checkpoints, autovacuum, query planning, locking, replication lag, backup/restore, and capacity planning.\n\n - Help build and operate vector data capabilities, including pgvector and dedicated VectorDB platforms where appropriate.\n\n - Define production patterns for embeddings, approximate nearest neighbor indexes, metadata filtering, recall/latency tradeoffs, reindexing, data freshness, and drift management.\n\n - Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, PITR, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.\n\n - Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.\n\n - Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across PostgreSQL and vector workloads.\n\n - Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, encryption, auditability, and secure operational patterns.\n\n - Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, GitOps, reproducible deployments, and self-service database operations.\n\n - Partner with service, AI, and platform teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, data hygiene, and safe use of vector search across the engineering organization.\n\n - Participate in on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, well-instrumented, and shaped by preventative engineering.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments, including performance tuning, replication, backup/restore, upgrades, and incident troubleshooting.\n\n - Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations: MVCC, transaction isolation, locks, WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum, bloat, statistics, query planner behavior, partitioning, and index strategy.\n\n - Hands-on experience with high availability and read scaling: streaming replication, replication slots, failover, lag management, PITR, backups, and disaster-recovery drills.\n\n - Experience with connection pooling and traffic management for PostgreSQL, especially PgBouncer, HAProxy, Kubernetes service routing, or comparable patterns.\n\n - Practical VectorDB or vector search experience, such as pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, OpenSearch vector search, or similar systems.\n\n - Ability to reason about vector index types and operational tradeoffs, including HNSW/IVFFlat-style indexes, recall, latency, memory, ingestion throughput, metadata filters, rebuilds, and versioned embeddings.\n\n - Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows. Terraform experience is ideal.\n\n - Solid cloud, Linux, storage, and networking fundamentals.\n\n - Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, including building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale.\n\n - Strong security instincts around access control, credential lifecycle, encryption, auditability, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.\n\n - Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, SLOs, dashboards, query-level visibility, and readiness for incident response.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation, and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, reliability programs, and failure exercises.\n\n - Strong scripting or programming ability, preferably Python, Go, or Rust, used to build automation and internal tools.\n\n - Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.\n\n - Exposure to multi-region, multi-datacenter, or active/passive disaster-recovery designs.\n\n - Experience supporting AI, retrieval, personalization, fraud, search, or recommendation systems that depend on embeddings or hybrid search.\n\n - Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We’re looking for a world-class Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of Kraken in the crypto space. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope and influence: you’ll lead the design direction of complex, high-priority areas within our flagship Kraken app, used and loved by millions of people around the world.
We’re a hardworking team that moves fast and ships with purpose. We’re straight-talking, no-nonsense, and deeply invested in the quality of what we build. We care about craft, we care about our customers, and we care about getting things right.
If you’re excited by ambiguous, high-stakes problems, setting the bar for design excellence, and helping define the future of finance through world-class product experiences, climb aboard.
Set and elevate the design vision across key product areas, defining what great looks like and driving it through execution.
Lead the design of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, turning them into clear, elegant, and scalable user experiences.
Raise the bar for the industry by creating visually rich, forward-thinking designs that elevate Kraken’s brand and set new benchmarks for excellence.
Shape and evolve Kraken’s design system and visual language, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product.
Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, not just execution.
Drive alignment across teams, bringing clarity and direction to cross-functional initiatives.
Mentor and support other designers, contributing to their growth and raising the overall quality of the design team.
Champion a high standard of craft and user experience, influencing stakeholders to uphold excellence across the organization.
Use customer insights, data, and experimentation to inform decisions and continuously improve product outcomes.
Lead design critiques and contribute to a strong culture of feedback, rigor, and continuous improvement.
7+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and impact, particularly in mobile app experiences.
Proven ability to lead design direction for large, complex product areas and deliver high-quality outcomes.
Strong UX and visual design skills, with a track record of solving ambiguous problems with clarity and elegance.
Advanced prototyping skills, with the ability to communicate complex interactions and ideas effectively.
Experience influencing product strategy and cross-functional decision-making at a team or organizational level.
Strong systems thinking, with experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale.
Ability to mentor and elevate other designers through feedback, collaboration, and example.
Data-informed mindset, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to diverse stakeholders.
Deep understanding of human-centered design principles and research methods, and the ability to apply them in complex environments.
Experience designing trading or financial products is a plus.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for a world-class Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of Kraken in the crypto space. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope and influence: you’ll lead the design direction of complex, high-priority areas within our flagship Kraken app, used and loved by millions of people around the world.\n\n\n\nWe’re a hardworking team that moves fast and ships with purpose. We’re straight-talking, no-nonsense, and deeply invested in the quality of what we build. We care about craft, we care about our customers, and we care about getting things right.\n\n\n\nIf you’re excited by ambiguous, high-stakes problems, setting the bar for design excellence, and helping define the future of finance through world-class product experiences, climb aboard.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Set and elevate the design vision across key product areas, defining what great looks like and driving it through execution.\n\n - Lead the design of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, turning them into clear, elegant, and scalable user experiences.\n\n - Raise the bar for the industry by creating visually rich, forward-thinking designs that elevate Kraken’s brand and set new benchmarks for excellence.\n\n - Shape and evolve Kraken’s design system and visual language, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product.\n\n - Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, not just execution.\n\n - Drive alignment across teams, bringing clarity and direction to cross-functional initiatives.\n\n - Mentor and support other designers, contributing to their growth and raising the overall quality of the design team.\n\n - Champion a high standard of craft and user experience, influencing stakeholders to uphold excellence across the organization.\n\n - Use customer insights, data, and experimentation to inform decisions and continuously improve product outcomes.\n\n - Lead design critiques and contribute to a strong culture of feedback, rigor, and continuous improvement.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 7+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and impact, particularly in mobile app experiences.\n\n - Proven ability to lead design direction for large, complex product areas and deliver high-quality outcomes.\n\n - Strong UX and visual design skills, with a track record of solving ambiguous problems with clarity and elegance.\n\n - Advanced prototyping skills, with the ability to communicate complex interactions and ideas effectively.\n\n - Experience influencing product strategy and cross-functional decision-making at a team or organizational level.\n\n - Strong systems thinking, with experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale.\n\n - Ability to mentor and elevate other designers through feedback, collaboration, and example.\n\n - Data-informed mindset, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.\n\n - Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to diverse stakeholders.\n\n - Deep understanding of human-centered design principles and research methods, and the ability to apply them in complex environments.\n\n - Experience designing trading or financial products is a plus.\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$127.2K – $254.4K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$127.2K - $254.4K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"44e63f0d-9b58-47ad-a477-608b31a4922b","tierSummary":"$127.2K – $254.4K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"9762b59d-2e7d-4fec-8d4e-264e02ac2ddc","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"acf6a9e1-1443-45bf-9eaa-380b9f8e836a","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"d87efe71-db22-4564-98f8-2e65e6bf890e","summary":"$127.2K – $254.4K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":127200,"maxValue":254400}]}},{"id":"c7409ffc-4430-4cdd-906c-3a0487d3e780","title":"Site Reliability Engineer - AI Agents","department":"Engineering","team":"SRE / Devops","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-11T12:49:02.915+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/c7409ffc-4430-4cdd-906c-3a0487d3e780","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/c7409ffc-4430-4cdd-906c-3a0487d3e780/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The AI Infrastructure team sits within the Data organization and is responsible for building, operating, and scaling the systems that power AI agents in production — both internal tools and external-facing products. Working closely with the AI and Agent Systems teams, this group ensures that the orchestration, execution, and model-serving layers underpinning agentic workflows are reliable, observable, and built to scale.
This team operates at the intersection of data infrastructure and applied AI — a space that moves fast and demands engineers who can bring production discipline to emerging technology. You'll partner across Data Engineering, ML, and product-facing teams to harden agent infrastructure and keep it running at the standards our users expect.
Importantly, this is a platform engineering team. Beyond operating infrastructure, the team is responsible for building the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable AI, Data, and Engineering teams to safely and efficiently consume agent infrastructure as a service. Success in this role requires thinking beyond infrastructure operations and toward developer experience, platform adoption, and long-term scalability.
Design, build, and operate the infrastructure layer supporting AI agent workflows in production
Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of agentic systems across internal and external products
Design and develop platform services, APIs, SDKs, and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to easily consume AI infrastructure and agent platform services
Manage and maintain the compute, orchestration, and serving infrastructure powering model inference and agent execution
Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures tailored to AI/ML workloads
Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud (AWS) infrastructure components
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of AI services and agent workflows
Define and implement guardrails, failure handling, and recovery patterns specific to agentic and LLM-powered systems
Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to translate experimental agent prototypes into hardened production systems
Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI services
Implement access controls and security best practices across AI infrastructure environments
Document architecture, runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing across the team
5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a production environment
Hands-on experience supporting ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps workflows in production
Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, APIs, or SDKs consumed by engineering teams at scale
Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, including developer experience, self-service infrastructure, and API-driven platform design
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform
Experience with containerization and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes and Docker
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Strong scripting skills (bash/shell) and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
Experience designing and operating observability, monitoring, and alerting systems
Experience implementing incident response procedures and participating in on-call rotations
Strong collaboration skills working across data, AI, and engineering teams
High ownership mindset in a fast-moving, high-stakes production environment
Experience building or operating infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems
Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar)
Background in data infrastructure, including familiarity with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or data lake tooling
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI/ML workloads
Exposure to evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale
Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 environments or platform-building teams
Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or internal platform products with a strong focus on usability and adoption
Experience with Cloudflare's cloud platform and product ecosystem, including networking, security, performance, and Zero Trust solutions
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe AI Infrastructure team sits within the Data organization and is responsible for building, operating, and scaling the systems that power AI agents in production — both internal tools and external-facing products. Working closely with the AI and Agent Systems teams, this group ensures that the orchestration, execution, and model-serving layers underpinning agentic workflows are reliable, observable, and built to scale.\n\nThis team operates at the intersection of data infrastructure and applied AI — a space that moves fast and demands engineers who can bring production discipline to emerging technology. You'll partner across Data Engineering, ML, and product-facing teams to harden agent infrastructure and keep it running at the standards our users expect.\n\nImportantly, this is a platform engineering team. Beyond operating infrastructure, the team is responsible for building the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable AI, Data, and Engineering teams to safely and efficiently consume agent infrastructure as a service. Success in this role requires thinking beyond infrastructure operations and toward developer experience, platform adoption, and long-term scalability.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design, build, and operate the infrastructure layer supporting AI agent workflows in production\n\n - Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of agentic systems across internal and external products\n\n - Design and develop platform services, APIs, SDKs, and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to easily consume AI infrastructure and agent platform services\n\n - Manage and maintain the compute, orchestration, and serving infrastructure powering model inference and agent execution\n\n - Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures tailored to AI/ML workloads\n\n - Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud (AWS) infrastructure components\n\n - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of AI services and agent workflows\n\n - Define and implement guardrails, failure handling, and recovery patterns specific to agentic and LLM-powered systems\n\n - Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to translate experimental agent prototypes into hardened production systems\n\n - Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI services\n\n - Implement access controls and security best practices across AI infrastructure environments\n\n - Document architecture, runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing across the team\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a production environment\n\n - Hands-on experience supporting ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps workflows in production\n\n - Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, APIs, or SDKs consumed by engineering teams at scale\n\n - Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, including developer experience, self-service infrastructure, and API-driven platform design\n\n - Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform\n\n - Experience with containerization and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes and Docker\n\n - Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS\n\n - Strong scripting skills (bash/shell) and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)\n\n - Experience designing and operating observability, monitoring, and alerting systems\n\n - Experience implementing incident response procedures and participating in on-call rotations\n\n - Strong collaboration skills working across data, AI, and engineering teams\n\n - High ownership mindset in a fast-moving, high-stakes production environment\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience building or operating infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems\n\n - Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar)\n\n - Background in data infrastructure, including familiarity with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or data lake tooling\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI/ML workloads\n\n - Exposure to evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale\n\n - Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 environments or platform-building teams\n\n - Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or internal platform products with a strong focus on usability and adoption\n\n - Experience with Cloudflare's cloud platform and product ecosystem, including networking, security, performance, and Zero Trust solutions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$96K – $192K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$96K - $192K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"d852bacc-41a3-4b69-a98f-87eff1d6af06","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $96K – $192K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"10895a90-c005-4d4e-955b-e712a6b796a7","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $96K – $192K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":96000,"maxValue":192000},{"id":"885f3d44-6943-453d-8ff4-d75f8d3ed251","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"17032259-c779-42d1-942a-9d93f2dc107a","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":96000,"maxValue":192000},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"cf14a771-0586-41de-b379-fe301c3c8120","title":"Data Platform Engineering Manager","department":"Engineering","team":"Data Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Slovenia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovenia"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Panama","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Panama"}}},{"location":"Estonia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Estonia"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-24T09:51:03.569+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/cf14a771-0586-41de-b379-fe301c3c8120","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/cf14a771-0586-41de-b379-fe301c3c8120/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken's Data Platform team builds the real-time infrastructure that powers decision-making across one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges. We operate at the intersection of streaming data, large-scale platform engineering, and AI-driven automation — processing billions of events daily across trading, compliance, and product systems.
This role leads the team responsible for Kraken's streaming and data platform layer — designing systems that move, transform, and serve data in real time. You'll own the architecture around stream processing (RisingWave, Flink), drive adoption of AI-powered automation and workflows across the data stack, and build the platform primitives that the rest of engineering depends on.
Lead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers building Kraken's real-time streaming infrastructure
Own the architecture and roadmap for high-volume low-frequency data systems, with focus on data stack like Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, RisingWave, Apache Flink
Design and operate scalable data architecture that serve trading, risk, compliance, analytics and many product teams.
Drive adoption of AI automation and intelligent workflows — automating data quality checks, pipeline orchestration, anomaly detection, and self-healing infrastructure
Partner with ML/AI, analytics, and product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their work
Evolve Kraken's data-lake and warehouse architecture to support both batch and streaming workloads seamlessly
Set technical direction for the team — balancing reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency at scale
Hire, mentor, and retain top-tier platform engineers; build a culture of ownership and technical excellence
8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems — with at least 3 years managing engineering teams
Experience and knowledge of building data-lakes in AWS (i.e. Spark, Athena, Iceberg, Parquet, Presto), including data modeling, data quality best practices, and self-service tooling.
Strong expertise in building and operating real-time data at scale including Kafka, Spark Streaming, Debezium, and CDC pipelines.
Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups — aligning platform investments with the needs of product, finance, compliance, analytics, and other teams
Strong communicator — able to explain risks, trade-offs, and roadmap decisions to both senior technical audiences and non-specialist stakeholders.
Experience designing or adopting AI/ML-powered automation in data workflows — pipeline orchestration, intelligent monitoring, automated remediation, or LLM-integrated tooling
Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java in a production data platform context
Solid understanding of cloud-native data infrastructure (AWS preferred — Glue, Athena, S3, EMR, Lambda, or equivalents)
Track record of managing, recruiting, and developing high-performing remote engineering teams
Ability to translate long-term platform vision into executable quarterly roadmaps
Servant-leadership style — you coach, unblock, and grow your engineers
AI-ready to 10X the team efficiency and overall output.
Experience with RisingWave and/or Clickhouse specifically — either in production or in serious evaluation
Familiarity with LLM-based agents or AI workflow frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestration)
Background in cryptocurrency, trading systems, or high-throughput financial data
Experience building self-service data platform tooling for internal engineering consumers
Contributions to open-source streaming or data infrastructure projects
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken's Data Platform team builds the real-time infrastructure that powers decision-making across one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges. We operate at the intersection of streaming data, large-scale platform engineering, and AI-driven automation — processing billions of events daily across trading, compliance, and product systems.\n\nThis role leads the team responsible for Kraken's streaming and data platform layer — designing systems that move, transform, and serve data in real time. You'll own the architecture around stream processing (RisingWave, Flink), drive adoption of AI-powered automation and workflows across the data stack, and build the platform primitives that the rest of engineering depends on.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Lead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers building Kraken's real-time streaming infrastructure\n\n - Own the architecture and roadmap for high-volume low-frequency data systems, with focus on data stack like Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, RisingWave, Apache Flink\n\n - Design and operate scalable data architecture that serve trading, risk, compliance, analytics and many product teams.\n\n - Drive adoption of AI automation and intelligent workflows — automating data quality checks, pipeline orchestration, anomaly detection, and self-healing infrastructure\n\n - Partner with ML/AI, analytics, and product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their work\n\n - Evolve Kraken's data-lake and warehouse architecture to support both batch and streaming workloads seamlessly\n\n - Set technical direction for the team — balancing reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency at scale\n\n - Hire, mentor, and retain top-tier platform engineers; build a culture of ownership and technical excellence\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems — with at least 3 years managing engineering teams\n\n - Experience and knowledge of building data-lakes in AWS (i.e. Spark, Athena, Iceberg, Parquet, Presto), including data modeling, data quality best practices, and self-service tooling.\n\n - Strong expertise in building and operating real-time data at scale including Kafka, Spark Streaming, Debezium, and CDC pipelines.\n\n - Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups — aligning platform investments with the needs of product, finance, compliance, analytics, and other teams\n\n - Strong communicator — able to explain risks, trade-offs, and roadmap decisions to both senior technical audiences and non-specialist stakeholders.\n\n - Experience designing or adopting AI/ML-powered automation in data workflows — pipeline orchestration, intelligent monitoring, automated remediation, or LLM-integrated tooling\n\n - Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java in a production data platform context\n\n - Solid understanding of cloud-native data infrastructure (AWS preferred — Glue, Athena, S3, EMR, Lambda, or equivalents)\n\n - Track record of managing, recruiting, and developing high-performing remote engineering teams\n\n - Ability to translate long-term platform vision into executable quarterly roadmaps\n\n - Servant-leadership style — you coach, unblock, and grow your engineers\n\n - AI-ready to 10X the team efficiency and overall output.\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience with RisingWave and/or Clickhouse specifically — either in production or in serious evaluation\n\n - Familiarity with LLM-based agents or AI workflow frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestration)\n\n - Background in cryptocurrency, trading systems, or high-throughput financial data\n\n - Experience building self-service data platform tooling for internal engineering consumers\n\n - Contributions to open-source streaming or data infrastructure projects\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"d00e0127-f2ad-427b-bb68-512f2883bd26","title":"AI Agents Solutions Architect - Finance","department":"Engineering","team":"AI & Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"United Arab Emirates","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United Arab Emirates"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-25T19:06:50.018+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/d00e0127-f2ad-427b-bb68-512f2883bd26","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/d00e0127-f2ad-427b-bb68-512f2883bd26/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Kraken's Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto-native asset reconciliation.
As financial complexity grows with Kraken's global footprint, this role architectures and provides hands-on building to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations. Errors carry audit, SOX, security ,and regulatory consequences.
You will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI-native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:
Evaluate how financial work currently flows across the organization, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.
Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems including NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.
Benchmark current operations against best-in-class practices and emerging AI capabilities to build the Finance automation roadmap, prioritized by operational leverage and regulatory risk.
Work directly with accounting, FP&A, treasury, and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into buildable automation requirements.
Design the long-term architecture for an AI-native finance operating system. Define how agentic systems interact with financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and control and reporting frameworks.
Evaluate Kraken's existing finance systems stack from first principles, including platforms and the interfaces and data flows between them. Identify opportunities to simplify the stack, reduce manual intervention, and define a scalable target architecture.
Build an agentic finance layer that runs alongside the existing stack today, automating workflows while defining the migration path toward a more scalable, AI-native architecture over time.
Deploy production-grade agentic workflows that automate finance operations: reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.
Build using modern AI tooling including Claude and Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, and MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
Integrate internal and external systems by connecting APIs, data sources, and tools into unified automated workflows that deliver real operational leverage.
Maintain human oversight where appropriate. Design for auditability and control integrity, not just efficiency.
Establish guardrails that allow automation and agent behavior to operate safely in a SOX-regulated financial environment. Define which controls are maintained, which are redesigned, and how workflow scope preserves control integrity.
Build frameworks covering data classification, auditability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, failure detection, rollback mechanisms, regulatory compliance, and audit-ready design documentation.
Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls, and audit logging confirmed.
Serve as the Finance domain representative in Kraken's Automate Everything Center of Excellence, contributing to governance standards and cross-functional build alignment.
Create reusable frameworks, workflow templates, and documentation so that future Finance team members can safely build on top of the platform without relying on a single specialist.
Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption and operational independence, not just delivery.
Build metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI from automation and AI initiatives.
Provide leadership reporting on operational improvements, risk posture, and the finance platform roadmap.
This role is designed for a technical builder and systems architect who has already deployed agentic systems in production.
Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments used by others, not just experimentation or internal demos.
Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi-agent system design, and the failure modes of autonomous AI workflows in high-stakes operational environments.
Strong systems architecture capability: able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.
Hands-on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
Strong domain knowledge of finance operations including close processes, reconciliations, treasury, financial reporting, and controls in a regulated environment.
Experience deploying automation in a SOX-regulated or equivalent compliance environment, with demonstrated understanding of which controls must be preserved and how to design automation that maintains audit integrity.
Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.
Strong communicator who can bridge finance, technical, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment.
Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high level of ownership and bias toward execution.
Experience with Finance systems stack or equivalent enterprise platforms: NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, or Lukka.
Background as a Head of Product or Head of Engineering at an AI-native company, AI systems architect, or founder or early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.
Familiarity with crypto-native financial infrastructure including digital asset custody, on-chain reconciliation, and blockchain-based accounting workflows.
Experience in high-velocity or resource-constrained environments: startup, PE-backed company, or an understaffed finance team where you had to build the system yourself.
Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in a financial services context.
Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nKraken's Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto-native asset reconciliation.\n\nAs financial complexity grows with Kraken's global footprint, this role architectures and provides hands-on building to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations. Errors carry audit, SOX, security ,and regulatory consequences.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n\n\nYou will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI-native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:\n\n\n\n\nASSESS AND MAP FINANCE OPERATIONS\n\n - Evaluate how financial work currently flows across the organization, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.\n\n - Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems including NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.\n\n - Benchmark current operations against best-in-class practices and emerging AI capabilities to build the Finance automation roadmap, prioritized by operational leverage and regulatory risk.\n\n - Work directly with accounting, FP&A, treasury, and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into buildable automation requirements.\n\n\nARCHITECT THE AGENTIC FINANCE PLATFORM\n\n - Design the long-term architecture for an AI-native finance operating system. Define how agentic systems interact with financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and control and reporting frameworks.\n\n - Evaluate Kraken's existing finance systems stack from first principles, including platforms and the interfaces and data flows between them. Identify opportunities to simplify the stack, reduce manual intervention, and define a scalable target architecture.\n\n - Build an agentic finance layer that runs alongside the existing stack today, automating workflows while defining the migration path toward a more scalable, AI-native architecture over time.\n\n\n\n\nBUILD AND DEPLOY PRODUCTION FINANCE AUTOMATION\n\n - Deploy production-grade agentic workflows that automate finance operations: reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.\n\n - Build using modern AI tooling including Claude and Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, and MCP or similar agent coordination layers.\n\n - Integrate internal and external systems by connecting APIs, data sources, and tools into unified automated workflows that deliver real operational leverage.\n\n - Maintain human oversight where appropriate. Design for auditability and control integrity, not just efficiency.\n\n\n\n\nOWN AI GOVERNANCE FOR FINANCE\n\n - Establish guardrails that allow automation and agent behavior to operate safely in a SOX-regulated financial environment. Define which controls are maintained, which are redesigned, and how workflow scope preserves control integrity.\n\n - Build frameworks covering data classification, auditability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, failure detection, rollback mechanisms, regulatory compliance, and audit-ready design documentation.\n\n - Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls, and audit logging confirmed.\n\n - Serve as the Finance domain representative in Kraken's Automate Everything Center of Excellence, contributing to governance standards and cross-functional build alignment.\n\n\n\n\nBUILD THE FOUNDATION FOR AI-NATIVE FINANCE\n\n - Create reusable frameworks, workflow templates, and documentation so that future Finance team members can safely build on top of the platform without relying on a single specialist.\n\n - Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption and operational independence, not just delivery.\n\n - Build metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI from automation and AI initiatives.\n\n - Provide leadership reporting on operational improvements, risk posture, and the finance platform roadmap.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n\n\nThis role is designed for a technical builder and systems architect who has already deployed agentic systems in production.\n\n\n\n - Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments used by others, not just experimentation or internal demos.\n\n - Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi-agent system design, and the failure modes of autonomous AI workflows in high-stakes operational environments.\n\n - Strong systems architecture capability: able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants.\n\n - Hands-on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.\n\n - Strong domain knowledge of finance operations including close processes, reconciliations, treasury, financial reporting, and controls in a regulated environment.\n\n - Experience deploying automation in a SOX-regulated or equivalent compliance environment, with demonstrated understanding of which controls must be preserved and how to design automation that maintains audit integrity.\n\n - Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.\n\n - Strong communicator who can bridge finance, technical, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment.\n\n - Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high level of ownership and bias toward execution.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience with Finance systems stack or equivalent enterprise platforms: NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, or Lukka.\n\n - Background as a Head of Product or Head of Engineering at an AI-native company, AI systems architect, or founder or early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.\n\n - Familiarity with crypto-native financial infrastructure including digital asset custody, on-chain reconciliation, and blockchain-based accounting workflows.\n\n - Experience in high-velocity or resource-constrained environments: startup, PE-backed company, or an understaffed finance team where you had to build the system yourself.\n\n - Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in a financial services context.\n\n - Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"d62250a9-363c-43b0-b3de-958e3cc9f97b","title":"Senior Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure","department":"Engineering","team":"AI & Machine Learning","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Peru","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Peru"}}},{"location":"Costa Rica","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Costa Rica"}}},{"location":"Latvia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Latvia"}}},{"location":"Argentina","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Argentina"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Slovenia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Slovenia"}}},{"location":"South Africa","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"South Africa"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Panama","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Panama"}}},{"location":"Estonia","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Estonia"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Hungary","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Hungary"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-02T13:16:23.552+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/d62250a9-363c-43b0-b3de-958e3cc9f97b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/d62250a9-363c-43b0-b3de-958e3cc9f97b/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The AI Infrastructure team builds and operates the production systems that power intelligent agents at scale. This team sits at the foundation of the agent platform, ensuring that model inference, orchestration, and execution layers are reliable, observable, and performant under real-world load.
Working closely with the Agent Systems team and broader infrastructure partners, this group owns the core primitives that enable agents to safely operate across internal systems. The environment is high-scale and high-stakes — systems serve millions of users and must meet strict reliability, latency, and correctness standards.
This is a deeply production-oriented team. Engineers here combine strong systems thinking with applied ML infrastructure experience, building in Rust and operating services where performance and failure modes matter.
Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production
Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution
Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput
Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring
Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows
Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers
Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems
Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment
5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems
Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming
Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization
Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads
Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments
Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems
Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure and applied engineering teams
High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment
Experience building infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems
Background in high-performance networking, async systems, or low-latency architectures
Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale
Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 or platform-building teams
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nFounded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nThe AI Infrastructure team builds and operates the production systems that power intelligent agents at scale. This team sits at the foundation of the agent platform, ensuring that model inference, orchestration, and execution layers are reliable, observable, and performant under real-world load.\n\nWorking closely with the Agent Systems team and broader infrastructure partners, this group owns the core primitives that enable agents to safely operate across internal systems. The environment is high-scale and high-stakes — systems serve millions of users and must meet strict reliability, latency, and correctness standards.\n\nThis is a deeply production-oriented team. Engineers here combine strong systems thinking with applied ML infrastructure experience, building in Rust and operating services where performance and failure modes matter.\n\n \n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production\n\n - Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution\n\n - Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput\n\n - Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring\n\n - Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows\n\n - Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers\n\n - Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems\n\n - Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems\n\n - Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming\n\n - Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization\n\n - Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads\n\n - Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments\n\n - Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems\n\n - Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure and applied engineering teams\n\n - High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment\n\n \n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Experience building infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems\n\n - Background in high-performance networking, async systems, or low-latency architectures\n\n - Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure\n\n - Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale\n\n - Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 or platform-building teams\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"f002b80f-27e2-46cd-a01c-41f7a7da73e6","title":"Senior Counsel - Product","department":"Legal","team":"Counsel","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Bulgaria","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Bulgaria"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-12T13:01:15.831+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/f002b80f-27e2-46cd-a01c-41f7a7da73e6","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/f002b80f-27e2-46cd-a01c-41f7a7da73e6/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Join our growing Product Legal team, embedded with Kraken’s Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship novel products and experiences that accelerate the global adoption of crypto and advance key global licensing initiatives. We’re a tight, experienced group of product lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of our advice - partnering directly with product teams to chart clear, defensible paths to launch.
The Senior Counsel role is based in the UK, or EU, partnering on licensing efforts in the UK, EU and various other jurisdictions and cutting edge products including tokenized equities, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC.
You will operate as a practical legal generalist with a dual focus:
Product — partnering with cross‑functional teams on consumer, institutional, and market products (e.g., tokenized instruments, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC) from ideation through launch and lifecycle; and
Licensing — driving strategy, scoping, and execution of licensing/registration efforts across priority jurisdictions.
We’re looking for a hands-on lawyer with strong licensing experience, product development instincts, regulatory fluency, and negotiation skills (ideally honed in the regulated financial sector) combined with a crypto-forward mindset. Curiosity, flexibility, and a bias for action at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets are essential.
This is a fully remote role
Own cross‑functional product counseling across the build cycle (discovery → design → launch → iteration), delivering crisp, actionable guidance and risk‑based options to product, engineering, compliance, and leadership.
Translate complex regulatory frameworks (with a focus on MiFID, EMIR, derivatives, and market structure) into pragmatic controls and go‑to‑market guardrails.
Draft and negotiate client terms and conditions with clear, business‑aligned positions.
Lead licensing/registration workstreams: scope requirements, map pathways, coordinate outside counsel, compile application materials, and manage regulator interactions.
Support incident and supervisory responses with well‑reasoned written submissions and evidence packages.
Foster a culture of clarity, favoring plain‑English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and decision‑ready recommendations.
Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor/Barrister, or equivalent admitted in an EU Member State).
10+ years’ PQE in financial services law within a regulated financial services institution (e.g., an exchange, central clearing counterparty, broker-dealer/asset manager, trading firm, bank, brokerage, or crypto services provider) or in a law firm/private practice supporting such clients (ideally with some in-house or direct product counseling experience).
Experience with advising on regulated MiFID investment services and familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes, including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations.
Demonstrated experience leading licensing or registration efforts, including planning, applications, regulator engagement, and operationalization.
Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills with crisp, plain-English writing.
Ability to efficiently and confidently distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders.
Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk that prioritises providing stakeholders with a useful range of options and delivers clear recommendations to decision-makers.
Demonstrates an authentic passion for crypto and familiarity with the features of both Kraken and its competitors’ apps and products.
Expertise in MiCA framework applicable to CASPs including brokerage, custody and the operation of trading platforms.
Expertise in EMIR including the clearing obligation, regulatory margin for non-centrally cleared derivatives and transaction reporting, desirable.
Familiarity with using AI tools such as Enterprise GPTs to increase efficient provision of legal services, create custom GPTs allowing stakeholders to self-serve on commoditised legal and regulatory queries.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
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It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.\n\nJoin our growing Product Legal team, embedded with Kraken’s Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship novel products and experiences that accelerate the global adoption of crypto and advance key global licensing initiatives. We’re a tight, experienced group of product lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of our advice - partnering directly with product teams to chart clear, defensible paths to launch.\n\nThe Senior Counsel role is based in the UK, or EU, partnering on licensing efforts in the UK, EU and various other jurisdictions and cutting edge products including tokenized equities, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC.\n\nYou will operate as a practical legal generalist with a dual focus:\n\n 1. Product — partnering with cross‑functional teams on consumer, institutional, and market products (e.g., tokenized instruments, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC) from ideation through launch and lifecycle; and\n\n 2. Licensing — driving strategy, scoping, and execution of licensing/registration efforts across priority jurisdictions.\n\nWe’re looking for a hands-on lawyer with strong licensing experience, product development instincts, regulatory fluency, and negotiation skills (ideally honed in the regulated financial sector) combined with a crypto-forward mindset. Curiosity, flexibility, and a bias for action at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets are essential.\n\nThis is a fully remote role\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Own cross‑functional product counseling across the build cycle (discovery → design → launch → iteration), delivering crisp, actionable guidance and risk‑based options to product, engineering, compliance, and leadership.\n\n - Translate complex regulatory frameworks (with a focus on MiFID, EMIR, derivatives, and market structure) into pragmatic controls and go‑to‑market guardrails.\n\n - Draft and negotiate client terms and conditions with clear, business‑aligned positions.\n\n - Lead licensing/registration workstreams: scope requirements, map pathways, coordinate outside counsel, compile application materials, and manage regulator interactions.\n\n - Support incident and supervisory responses with well‑reasoned written submissions and evidence packages.\n\n - Foster a culture of clarity, favoring plain‑English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and decision‑ready recommendations.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor/Barrister, or equivalent admitted in an EU Member State).\n\n - 10+ years’ PQE in financial services law within a regulated financial services institution (e.g., an exchange, central clearing counterparty, broker-dealer/asset manager, trading firm, bank, brokerage, or crypto services provider) or in a law firm/private practice supporting such clients (ideally with some in-house or direct product counseling experience).\n\n - Experience with advising on regulated MiFID investment services and familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes, including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations.\n\n - Demonstrated experience leading licensing or registration efforts, including planning, applications, regulator engagement, and operationalization.\n\n - Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills with crisp, plain-English writing.\n\n - Ability to efficiently and confidently distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders.\n\n - Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk that prioritises providing stakeholders with a useful range of options and delivers clear recommendations to decision-makers.\n\n - Demonstrates an authentic passion for crypto and familiarity with the features of both Kraken and its competitors’ apps and products.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n - Expertise in MiCA framework applicable to CASPs including brokerage, custody and the operation of trading platforms.\n\n - Expertise in EMIR including the clearing obligation, regulatory margin for non-centrally cleared derivatives and transaction reporting, desirable.\n\n - Familiarity with using AI tools such as Enterprise GPTs to increase efficient provision of legal services, create custom GPTs allowing stakeholders to self-serve on commoditised legal and regulatory queries.\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"ff2129b4-2fc9-4e8e-9c92-777279b377fe","title":"Product Manager - Prop Trading - Breakout","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"United Kingdom","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Brazil","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Brazil"}}},{"location":"Ireland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Ireland"}}},{"location":"Romania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Romania"}}},{"location":"Cyprus","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Cyprus"}}},{"location":"Switzerland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Switzerland"}}},{"location":"Portugal","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Portugal"}}},{"location":"Lithuania","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Lithuania"}}},{"location":"Czech Republic","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Czech Republic"}}},{"location":"Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Canada"}}},{"location":"Mexico","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Mexico"}}},{"location":"Poland","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Poland"}}},{"location":"Spain","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"Spain"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-24T14:58:28.128+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"United Kingdom","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/ff2129b4-2fc9-4e8e-9c92-777279b377fe","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com/ff2129b4-2fc9-4e8e-9c92-777279b377fe/application","descriptionHtml":"Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
Breakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.
We're a lean, high-conviction team where every hire genuinely shapes the product. The trading experience is our core competitive surface — it's what traders evaluate us on, stay for, and tell their networks about. This role owns it.
You'll work alongside traders, engineers, and operators who move fast, think rigorously, and hold each other to a high bar. If you want to build the best prop trading terminal in crypto, this is the team.
Reporting directly to the Head of Product, the PM, Prop Trading will own the end-to-end trading experience across Breakout Prop and Kraken Prop — web and mobile.
Drive the trading experience roadmap within your domain — sequencing, requirements, and delivery — in close partnership with the Head of Product
Define what best-in-class prop trading UX looks like: fast, intuitive, and built for serious derivatives traders
Drive execution on near-term priorities and terminal parity with the best in market (Hyperliquid and beyond)
Lead the product strategy for agentic and API trading — giving power users programmatic access to prop capital
Partner with Kraken Pro engineering to build a trading experience that feels native to the crypto ecosystem while serving the specific needs of prop traders
Work closely the risk team to translate execution nuance into product requirements — understanding A-book vs B-book mechanics, drawdown rules, and how they shape UX
Set the bar for what \"done\" means on trading features — requirements, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and post-ship iteration
Product depth
3-6+ years in senior product management, with significant time owning a trading or execution product
Deep understanding of derivatives trading — perps, futures, margin, leverage, order types, risk parameters
Experience building for professional or semi-professional traders who have high expectations and low tolerance for friction
Track record of shipping complex, technically demanding features end-to-end with high quality
Ability to write detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineers can act on without constant clarification
Strong opinions on trading UX — you've used the best terminals out there and you know what good looks like
Technical fluency
Comfortable in the technical weeds — you can read API docs, understand data contracts, and have an informed opinion on architectural tradeoffs
Experience working on products with real-time data requirements (streaming prices, live P&L, order state)
Familiarity with trading infrastructure concepts — order routing, execution layers, risk engines, position monitoring
Bonus: experience with agentic workflows, algorithmic trading, or API-first product design
Leadership & craft
Senior enough to own a domain with minimal direction — you set the agenda, you don't wait for one
Strong written communicator — your PRDs, tickets, and async updates are clear and complete
Experience working across multiple engineering teams and navigating cross-functional dependencies
Trader empathy — you understand what it feels like to have a position open and need the product to work perfectly
Crypto-native or deeply curious — you understand the space, the culture, and why prop trading matters here
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.
Stay connected
","descriptionPlain":"BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE\n\n\nPayward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.\n\n\nBefore you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work.\n\n\nTHE TEAM\n\nBreakout is a crypto prop trading program that gives skilled traders access to capital, with up to 90% of profits going to the trader. Traders pass a one-step evaluation, then trade funded accounts up to $200K with on-demand profit withdrawals, 24/7.\n\nWe're a lean, high-conviction team where every hire genuinely shapes the product. The trading experience is our core competitive surface — it's what traders evaluate us on, stay for, and tell their networks about. This role owns it.\n\nYou'll work alongside traders, engineers, and operators who move fast, think rigorously, and hold each other to a high bar. If you want to build the best prop trading terminal in crypto, this is the team.\n\nReporting directly to the Head of Product, the PM, Prop Trading will own the end-to-end trading experience across Breakout Prop and Kraken Prop — web and mobile.\n\n\n\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\n - Drive the trading experience roadmap within your domain — sequencing, requirements, and delivery — in close partnership with the Head of Product\n\n - Define what best-in-class prop trading UX looks like: fast, intuitive, and built for serious derivatives traders\n\n - Drive execution on near-term priorities and terminal parity with the best in market (Hyperliquid and beyond)\n\n - Lead the product strategy for agentic and API trading — giving power users programmatic access to prop capital\n\n - Partner with Kraken Pro engineering to build a trading experience that feels native to the crypto ecosystem while serving the specific needs of prop traders\n\n - Work closely the risk team to translate execution nuance into product requirements — understanding A-book vs B-book mechanics, drawdown rules, and how they shape UX\n\n - Set the bar for what \"done\" means on trading features — requirements, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and post-ship iteration\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - Product depth\n \n - 3-6+ years in senior product management, with significant time owning a trading or execution product\n \n - Deep understanding of derivatives trading — perps, futures, margin, leverage, order types, risk parameters\n \n - Experience building for professional or semi-professional traders who have high expectations and low tolerance for friction\n \n - Track record of shipping complex, technically demanding features end-to-end with high quality\n \n - Ability to write detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineers can act on without constant clarification\n \n - Strong opinions on trading UX — you've used the best terminals out there and you know what good looks like\n \n Technical fluency\n \n - Comfortable in the technical weeds — you can read API docs, understand data contracts, and have an informed opinion on architectural tradeoffs\n \n - Experience working on products with real-time data requirements (streaming prices, live P&L, order state)\n \n - Familiarity with trading infrastructure concepts — order routing, execution layers, risk engines, position monitoring\n \n - Bonus: experience with agentic workflows, algorithmic trading, or API-first product design\n \n Leadership & craft\n \n - Senior enough to own a domain with minimal direction — you set the agenda, you don't wait for one\n \n - Strong written communicator — your PRDs, tickets, and async updates are clear and complete\n \n - Experience working across multiple engineering teams and navigating cross-functional dependencies\n \n - Trader empathy — you understand what it feels like to have a position open and need the product to work perfectly\n \n - Crypto-native or deeply curious — you understand the space, the culture, and why prop trading matters here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT\n\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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.\n\n\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.\n\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether 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.\n\n\n\nStay connected\n\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/krakenfx\n\nLearn on the Kraken Blog https://blog.kraken.com/#:~:text=Enter%20your%20email%20address\n\nConnect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraken-exchange/\n\n\nCandidate Privacy Notice https://www.kraken.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}