About The Position
Payward, 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, global financial system. The Exchange team at Kraken is responsible for the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, margin systems, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks including C++, Go, Rust, and Python. The Trading Technologies team recently played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience managing engineering teams, with a preference for managers who stay technically engaged rather than purely administrative
- Prior hands-on experience in at least one of the following using Linux: distributed and/or highly-concurrent systems; low-latency and/or high-volume transaction environments
- Proficiency in Rust and/or C++; comfort operating in a team split across C++, Rust, Go, and Python
- Demonstrated knowledge of order types, trading systems, and financial products
- BS in a technical or quantitative field
- Proactive mindset with the ability to prioritize across a technically deep team and adhere to aggressive deadlines
Nice To Haves
- Comfort with multicast-based market data distribution a plus
- Cryptocurrency/blockchain familiarity highly preferable
- Experience with Aeron or similar messaging/transport systems a strong plus
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of 8-10 engineers owning core trading backend services, including the matching engine, market data gateways, and order entry systems
- Guide the team through the ongoing evolution of our trading stack, from legacy systems to their modern replacements
- Stay 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 coding
- Champion performance and market data work as top priorities, while also supporting the team's broader technical scope
- Bring AI-assisted engineering practices into the team's workflow and help engineers adopt them
- Partner cross-functionally with product and other engineering pods to drive roadmap execution
- Represent the team technically with peer teams and stakeholders, communicating tradeoffs and progress clearly
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
