Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Kraken

The team

Join a small, talented team of engineers building high-quality enhancements and bringing new onchain utility to Kraken. In this role, you ll take significant ownership of technical decisions, collaborate closely with product, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver exciting new opportunities.

The opportunity

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to understand business needs

• Work jointly with devOps all along the software development lifecycle from the writeup of technical specifications in the form of RFCs, to feature development and testing.

• Develop and maintain services that power onchain experiences.

• Integrate 3rd party APIs and multiple blockchain networks into our products.

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability scalable applications

• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Create optimized database schemas

• Mentoring of engineers and contribution to hiring

Skills you should HODL

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup

• Experience working with blockchain technology and DeFi

• Experience building backend services with Node.js, Typescript

• Experience building and maintaining high volume production quality applications using React or React Native, with good knowledge of state management and client side systems design

• Experience working with GraphQL, SQL, RESTful APIs and WebSockets

• Good understanding of best practices with version control and continuous integration.

• Solid understanding of engineering and design principles behind distributed and scalable applications

• Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Clear passion for both Software Engineering and Crypto

• Take complete end-to-end ownership of tasks.