Engineering Manager, Custody, Crypto & Onchain

Summary

Join our Custody team and have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing transformation of the digital assets industry at Kraken.

Requirements

• Experience as a backend developer and leading teams of 7+ engineers writing code exclusively in Rust
• Proficiency in Rust
• Leans heavy into process, optimization and always has security at the forefront of decision making
• Strong proficiency with basic cryptographic concepts
• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tooling
• Deep knowledge of software development and delivery best practices; you can identify bottlenecks and/or obstacles holding back your team and find ways to help them move faster
• Experience driving solutions to key business problems, especially navigating and resolving ambiguity
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
• Strong written skills in English is required

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and contributing to deliverables in a team that is dedicated to integrations for institutional custody
• Help scale the team by hiring and growing passionate engineers committed to excellence
• Lead by example and nurture talent in an integration focused team, focusing on the growth of developers and ensuring their workload leaves them both challenged and fulfilled
• Help identify, analyze, and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes and codebases
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems
• Spend about 80% of your time managing risks across different domains who have distinct domain experts
• Manage stakeholder expectations in Security, Compliance, Product, Finance, Design, and Client Experience, to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements
• Maintain a security-first mindset by staying informed of the latest trends in blockchain technologies, and Web3 in general
• Own, develop and maintain existing integrations