23 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths.
- Design inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems.
- Prototype agent behaviors rapidly and productionize solutions that prove valuable.
- Architect backend services integrating multiple internal APIs and data sources.
- Define safe, observable, and controllable patterns for agent execution.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and internal operations partners to identify automation opportunities.
- Improve system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales.
- Contribute to foundational design decisions for a 0-to-1 agent platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, and reliability.
- Experience building full-stack systems with occasional frontend work.
- Hands-on production experience with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines.
- Ability to prototype rapidly while maintaining a path to production-grade architecture.
- Strong systems thinking around orchestration, failure modes, and observability.
- Comfort operating with high ownership in ambiguous 0-to-1 environments.
- Preferred: experience with agent-based systems, autonomous workflows, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, model performance tuning, enterprise systems, developer platforms, internal tooling, guardrails, sandboxing, or AI safety layers.
Benefits
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
- Payward is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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About Kraken
Kraken builds a global digital asset trading platform for individuals and institutions, offering spot, margin, futures, staking, OTC, and related infrastructure. The company generates revenue primarily from trading and financing fees and institutional services. Founded in 2011 and operated by privately held Payward, it is remote-first and serves customers worldwide; it has published cryptographic Proof of Reserves since 2014 to verify client asset holdings.