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About this role
Join Kraken as a Backend Developer in the Payments team, responsible for designing and implementing robust payment services and libraries.
Description
Payward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks — has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry. The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar, digital or fiat, that goes in or out of Kraken.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust services and libraries for payments integration across our products at Kraken
- Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Frontend Engineering to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements in a large scale distributed systems architecture
- Partner closely with crypto native engineers
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in writing clean, scalable backend code in a systems language, with preference to Rust or Node/Typescript
- Demonstrated commitment to a security-first mindset when designing systems
- Capability to autonomously debug issues across the stack, including OS, network, and application layers
- Familiarity with distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event Driven Systems
Job Details
Market range (est.)$90k–$180k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedSep 22, 2026 (20d ago)
Tags & Skills
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Tech Stack
RustNodeTypescriptdistributed systemsRPC protocolsKafkaEvent Driven Systems