Head of Financial Systems Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $134.2k - $298.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Systems 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

• Report to the CFO and lead the engineering vision for Kraken’s financial systems • Translate Finance priorities into a technical strategy and delivery roadmap • Assess fragmented data, processes, and technical debt; define target architecture and phased transformation plan • Lead, coach, and grow specialists across financial systems, data engineering, integrations, and ledger-related services • Establish standards for completeness, quality, lineage, and ownership of financial data • Contribute to architecture decisions for ledgers, subledgers, financial data models, APIs, and integrations across fiat and crypto activity • Partner with Accounting and Treasury on account and legal entity attribution, controls, reconciliation, exception handling, and record traceability • Lead modernization and migration while maintaining close, reporting, fund movements, and critical Finance operations • Establish testing, documentation, observability, release controls, and incident response practices • Partner with Product, platform engineering, Risk, Security, Compliance, Tax, and Legal on system boundaries, access controls, resilience, regulatory needs, and auditability • Evaluate build, buy, and integration options; review designs and communicate decisions, sequencing, risks, and tradeoffs • Move key reconciliations from monthly to daily cadence • Reduce reconciliation-break root-cause analysis from weeks to days • Map and validate source tables and transformations feeding financial statements • Complete UAT data lake connections for end-to-end financial data-flow testing

🎯 Requirements

• Significant software engineering and technical leadership experience, including leading experienced teams through complex financial systems or data architecture change • Strong track record of hiring, coaching, and developing specialists while creating clear ownership, high engineering standards, and effective cross-functional partnerships • Deep understanding of ledgers, subledgers, double-entry concepts, reconciliation, settlement, and the path from an operational event to an auditable financial record • Experience with crypto or digital asset infrastructure and connecting on-chain activity, internal balances, custody or wallet flows, and traditional financial systems • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, data engineering, APIs, event-driven processing, and integrations across complex platforms • Experience defining a target architecture and delivering a transformation roadmap across fragmented or legacy systems while sustaining production reliability • Experience designing for data completeness, accuracy, lineage, reconciliation, access control, and auditability • Sound judgment in production operations, including incident response, monitoring, debugging, change management, and reliability improvements • Ability to partner with senior Finance and Engineering leaders and translate financial, operational, and control needs into a practical engineering roadmap • Ability to lead experts and communicate priorities and tradeoffs to executives and technical teams • Experience with Rust, TypeScript/Node.js, or Python; finance applications such as NetSuite, Kyriba, or BlackLine; and SOX or SOC control environments is valuable • Must select a city and country from the application location options • Must answer whether work sponsorship will be needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity program • Bonus program • Wellness allowance • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k)