Senior Software Engineer - Frontend - Onchain

BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO 

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture https://www.kraken.com/culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/226090548-How-to-create-an-account-on-Kraken.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/security-at-kraken, crypto education https://blog.kraken.com/category/crypto-education, and world-class client support https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/support-at-kraken through our products like Kraken Pro https://pro.kraken.com/, Desktop https://www.kraken.com/desktop, Wallet https://www.kraken.com/wallet, and Kraken Futures https://www.kraken.com/features/futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!


PROOF OF WORK


THE TEAM

Join a small, talented team of engineers building high-quality enhancements and bringing new onchain utility to Kraken. In this role, you’ll take significant ownership of technical decisions, collaborate closely with product, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver exciting new opportunities.


THE OPPORTUNITY

- Collaborate with designers and product managers to understand business needs

- Work jointly with devOps all along the software development lifecycle from the writeup of technical specifications in the form of RFCs, to feature development and testing.

- Develop and maintain services that power onchain experiences.

- Integrate 3rd party APIs and multiple blockchain networks into our products.

- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability scalable applications

- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code

- Create optimized database schemas

- Mentoring of engineers and contribution to hiring


SKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL

- 5+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup

- Experience working with blockchain technology and DeFi

- Experience building backend services with Node.js, Typescript

- Experience building and maintaining high volume production quality applications usin