Senior Software Engineer - C++ - Consumer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - C++ - Consumer at Kraken. The Consumer team builds applications that expose Kraken’s product offering to the mass market and focuses on expanding our equities capabilities within the Consumer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust C++ services and libraries for our equities infrastructure
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebases optimized for low latency and high throughput
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture across trading, market data, and settlement layers
• Work side by side with hundreds of experienced engineers across multiple languages and platforms
• Contribute to the design and implementation of systems that support the next generation of Kraken’s Consumer equities offering

Skills You Should HODL

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficient in C++
• Security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness and reliability
• Ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, message buses (Kafka or similar), and event-driven architectures
• Collaborate effectively with product and platform teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture

Equal Opportunity

Kraken is an equal opportunity employer. We hire strictly based on merit, seek candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills, and encourage you to apply for roles where you don’t fully meet the listed requirements if you’re passionate or knowledgeable about crypto. We are committed to a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace.