Staff Engineer – Growth – Verifications

🕒 September 10

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction for Pro Verifications architecture, engineering patterns, and build-versus-vendor decisions • Set the shape of verification services and contracts across the KYC/KYB flow • Abstract KYC and KYB vendors to prevent provider failures from causing outages • Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails suitable for regulatory scrutiny • Identify and permanently eliminate recurring classes of failure • Write and drive architecture decision records (ADRs) • Maintain security and compliance standards at design time • Mentor and raise the bar for senior engineers through design reviews, code, and direct feedback • Improve verification speed, automation, decision accuracy, system availability, and team capability • Deploy frequently behind feature flags in small, reversible pieces

🎯 Requirements

• Around eight years building and running production systems • Track record of owning a domain's technical direction • Deep, fluent expertise in Rust • Versatility to work across TypeScript and React • Experience setting architecture that other engineers build on • Experience designing out recurring classes of failure • Experience improving team productivity through patterns, tooling, or mentoring • Experience in compliance, payments, security, or another domain where errors have significant consequences • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, service contracts, and secure design • Experience integrating third-party APIs with timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, and tested backup paths • Comfortable with, or able to quickly ramp on, gRPC, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and GitLab CI • Nice to have: KYC, KYB, or fraud experience, including Trulioo, Persona, or ComplyAdvantage • Nice to have: experience building with AI in the loop • Nice to have: crypto, fintech, or regulated-industry experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Dogfooding is a requirement for everyone once they join Kraken • Equal opportunity employment and non-discrimination commitment • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates • Opportunity to work on high-impact systems in a globally accessible financial infrastructure platform