Job Description
Summary
The team
Join our Trading and Market Risk Team at Kraken!
We're an agile team of globally distributed experts on trading, holding a unique blend of creativity, knowledge and ambition to build an easy-to-use experience for our clients.
The team embraces hyper-transparency, fostering an environment of open dialogue, candid discussions and constructive feedback, staying adaptable in the ever-evolving crypto industry.
This role is fully remote. We consider candidates in European and EST timezones.
The opportunity
- Partner with Engineering Managers and their teams to plan and execute initiatives
- Produce reports and extract insights from team data
- Lead mission-critical cross-domain projects from 0 to done
- Enable the team to achieve success, higher throughput and provide regular updates on project status, risks and dependencies
- Participate in division-wide initiatives to align teams and foster best-practices
- Ensuring alignment with organizational goals
Skills you should HODL
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years experience working as a technical project manager or similar role. Ideally within trading, finance or similar.
- 2+ years of experience working as a software engineer, software engineer in test or similar technical roles
- Proficient in utilizing project and workstream management tools such as Confluence and Jira.
- Embody a timing mindset, strategically allocating tasks to ensure the timely achievement of project milestones.
- Hands-on experience with BI tools such as Superset or equivalent. Knowledge of SQL basics is a nice to have!
- Serve as a Jira expert with a minimum of two years of experience in kanban project management or Agile methodologies , showcasing openness to experimenting and improving processes.
- Proven experience working with engineering teams in a project manager role, capable of effectively communicating technical details to engineers of various disciplines and understanding the intricacies of their roles.
- Exhibit excellent communication skills, displaying enthusiasm to ask questions and comprehend business and product objectives.
- Innately curious about system workings, demonstrating the ability to self-educate as needed.
- Exceptional organizational skills and determination to drive projects to completion, adapting seamlessly to shifting priorities and deadlines with a data driven mindset, with a primary focus on delivering value.
- Tenacious self-starter able to comprehend the details of intricate, cross-functional projects and adept at distilling them into actionable project plans.
Nice to Haves
- Experience in Crypto or Finance is a huge plus
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Software Engineering
- SQL
- Team Collaboration