Summary

The team

Kraken is looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead and build out our Custody Team. Join our Custody team and have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing transformation of the digital assets industry at Kraken. Our team plays a crucial role in identifying problems in the industry and delivering novel solutions. As a leader of the Custody team, you will have the chance to lead and collaborate with highly skilled Rust Engineers, cryptographers, hardware aficionados, and on-chain experts from around the world. We are enthusiastic about the highest security custody environments and efficiency of signing with the major cryptographic curves. Our collaborative work environment allows us to stay ahead in the ever-changing crypto landscape. 

We are looking for a strong communicator and team-player, who is able to identify business problems, own Kraken’s Institutional strategy, and set the agenda to maximize business impact from the team. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader that’s passionate about crypto, software engineering. You understand the tech and what’s going on at ground level and facilitate your team into making great decisions, but you’re careful not to let your own opinions outweigh those of others, and strike a healthy balance between trusting the way your team does things currently and challenging them to strive for something better. You find ways to make your team better and deliver: expedite a process, get rid of a blocker, get repetitive work off team members by handling it and/or automating it, and more.

The opportunity

1. Facilitating and contributing to deliverables in a team that is dedicated to integrations for institutional custody
2. Help scale the team by hiring and growing passionate engineers committed to excellence
3. 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
4. Help identify, analyze, and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes and codebases
5. Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems
6. Spend about 80% of your time managing risks across different domains who have distinct domain experts
7. Manage stakeholder expectations in Security, Compliance, Product, Finance, Design, and Client Experience, to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements
8. Maintain a security-first mindset by staying informed of the latest trends in blockchain technologies, and Web3 in general
9. Own, develop and maintain existing integrations

Skills you should HODL

1. Experience as a backend developer and leading teams of 7+ engineers writing code exclusively in Rust
2. Proficiency in Rust
3. Leans heavy into process, optimization and always has security at the forefront of decision making
4. Strong proficiency with basic cryptographic concepts
5. Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tooling
6. 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
7. Experience driving solutions to key business problems, especially navigating and resolving ambiguity
8. Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
9. Understanding accessibility and security compliance 
10. Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
11. Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
12. Strong written skills in English is required

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Cryptocurrency
• Cryptography
• Development
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Rust
• Software Engineering