1 day ago
USA (city not specified) +21 moreMid Level
Base Salary
$96k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, test, review, and ship features and fixes in Haskell services across exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems.
- Design database schemas, constraints, indexes, exact numeric types, and audit trails for financial data.
- Write lock-safe, reversible migrations for large tables and review other engineers’ migrations.
- Analyze execution plans and production metrics to resolve slow queries through query, index, or access-pattern changes.
- Understand order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end.
- Monitor systems, respond to alerts, participate in on-call and operational shifts, and support settlement cycles.
- Investigate production issues, fix root causes, document learnings, and collaborate with engineering, operations, risk, and compliance.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a functional or strongly typed language such as Haskell, Rust, or C++.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including transactions and isolation levels.
- Computer science fundamentals in data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems, including replication, consistency, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Willingness to participate in on-call and operational shifts.
- Care and rigor when working with code and data that move money, along with the ability to measure before tuning.
- Good judgment with AI tools and the ability to read, test, and understand generated output before shipping it.
- Calm, methodical judgment under production pressure and strong collaboration and documentation habits.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Financial, trading, market, or financial-services knowledge is preferred.
- Haskell experience, especially with PostgreSQL-backed services, is preferred.
- Production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, high-volume time-series or market data, or Atlas is preferred.
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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.