Staff Software Engineer – Special Projects @ Chairman Office

Requirements

• You have high engineering horsepower and strong fundamentals (systems thinking, debugging, architecture, performance), while staying practical and outcome-oriented.
• You do what must be done to move the work forward—and you leave things better than you found them: improving coding standards, tests, local dev experience, observability, and dependency health, not just shipping the happy-path feature.
• You hold a clear effort/reward lens: you invest where it compounds, avoid perfectionism for its own sake, and consistently prioritize the outcomes that matter.
• You’re low-ego, high-standards: you raise the quality bar through example, thoughtful reviews, and good taste—without creating friction.
• You communicate clearly, bring calm energy, and help teams stay optimistic and focused when timelines are real and constraints are sharp.

Nice to Haves

• Contributions to high-performance or open-source infrastructure projects
• Kubernetes or Hashicorp stack (Nomad/Consul/Vault) experience
• Experience in high-growth, startup-style engineering teams
• Past experience with crypto or trading related projects
• Full-stack/Swiss Army knife: you know to invest in local developer experience and tooling to make your projects quick to contribute to, you can switch from product ideation to architecture, from code to operations, and from benchmarking to load testing easily.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and ship new backend capabilities that integrate AI-adjacent functionality into Kraken’s core systems
• Design distributed services that meet high standards for reliability, performance, and correctness
• Work on latency-sensitive and real-time system components
• Own end-to-end technical design, from protocol and service boundaries through production deployment
• Leverage modern AI tooling to significantly accelerate development velocity while maintaining engineering rigor
• Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional partners on high-impact, technically ambitious initiatives
• Deliver complex systems on ambitious timelines without sacrificing quality

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