Senior Software Engineer - Full-stack - Growth Platform

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and maintaining backend systems or developer-facing tools.
• Proficiency in building scalable applications and developer tooling using TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, or internal services consumed by other engineering teams.
• Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and secure software design.
• Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong communication and documentation skills — you can make complex systems approachable to other developers.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms or frameworks used across multiple teams.
• Background in observability, reliability engineering, or service instrumentation.
• Experience driving technical design across large codebases or multi-team environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect, build, and maintain SDKs, CLIs, APIs, and shared services that enable rapid experimentation and delivery across Growth engineering teams.
• Develop internal tools and frameworks that improve engineering workflows, automation, and deployment efficiency.
• Design and evolve scalable backend systems and databases, ensuring performance, security, and resilience.
• Write clear, maintainable technical documentation and onboarding materials for engineers using platform tools.
• Partner with other engineers to understand pain points and translate them into intuitive, reliable internal systems.
• Own reliability, observability, and performance improvements across core services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams across the company to align on standards, tooling, and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering excellence, automation, and maintainability.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to join a world-class team with a mission to accelerate global adoption of crypto.
• Fully remote work environment with Krakenites in 70+ countries speaking over 50 languages.
• Develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space.
• Commitment to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support.
• Celebrate diverse talents, backgrounds, and perspectives in a merit-based hiring process.