Building the Future of Open FinancePayward - 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, built to advance an open, general financial system.The teamFounded in , Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe.
It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.The Exchange team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, margin systems and various other trading services.
Our teams code in C++, Go, Rust, and Python, depending on the product they are contributing to within Kraken and work agile around the globe.
The opportunityLead and grow a team of 8-10 engineers owning core trading backend services,
including the matching engine, market data gateways, and order entry systemsGuide the team through the ongoing evolution of our trading stack, from legacy systems to their modern replacementsStay technically close enough to the stack to unblock, review, and contribute to architecture discussions across matching engine, market data, and order entry work with ability to jump in and assist with codingChampion performance and market data work as top priorities, while also supporting the team's broader technical scopeBring AI-assisted engineering practices into the team's workflow and help engineers adopt themPartner cross-functionally with product and other engineering pods to drive roadmap executionRepresent the team technically with peer teams and stakeholders, communicating tradeoffs and progress clearlyWhat You BringExperience managing engineering teams, with a preference for managers who stay tech
📌 Engineering Manager (España)
🏢 Kraken
📍 España