Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Build and operate DevOps infrastructure for regulated digital-asset exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems. Responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines, managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, running containerized services on Nomad, developing deployment tooling with health checks and rollback, monitoring systems, responding to production alerts, supporting settlement operations, and contributing to Haskell-based services. The role requires on-call participation, distributed-systems expertise, and collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance.

Own the assessment, architecture, roadmap, and hands-on improvement of a large-scale database estate centered on MariaDB. Lead reliability, performance, replication, disaster recovery, observability, provisioning, migrations, and database automation. Partner with application teams on schemas and data-store decisions, investigate complex incidents, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep MariaDB expertise, strong software engineering skills, Linux and infrastructure fundamentals, and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Support Kraken Pro’s affiliate program by recruiting and onboarding partners, managing affiliate platform operations, maintaining tracking and commission structures, producing performance reports, monitoring compliance and fraud, reconciling payments, coordinating launches, and maintaining partner documentation. The role also supports partner servicing, dashboard analysis, and affiliate strategy development while collaborating with product, compliance, design, martech, and analytics teams.

Advise Kraken’s Product and Consumer Legal teams on launching regulated crypto, payments, trading, equities, and tokenized-equity products in the UK and EU. Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to assess legal and regulatory risks, provide practical recommendations, draft and negotiate agreements, and support product development. The role requires expertise in financial services regulation, crypto-asset regimes, consumer products, and clear communication with non-lawyer stakeholders.

Own business operations for Payward Services, including partner launch readiness, operating cadence, planning, goal-setting, business reviews, reporting, and leadership updates. Automate manual workflows using AI and integrations, improve repeatable partner launch processes, onboard new products and acquired businesses, and lead strategic cross-functional initiatives. The role partners with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to build scalable operating systems.

Own end-to-end product design for new B2C and internal AI products, from discovery and prototyping through launch and iteration. Lead zero-to-one design in ambiguous environments, shape non-deterministic user experiences, conduct research, influence product strategy, and partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership. Create visually rich, scalable experiences with strong UX, visual design, systems thinking, and craft.

Owns end-to-end paid video creative for Kraken Consumer, from concept through production, editing, approval, localization, and delivery across multiple platforms and markets. Uses generative AI as a core production method, develops platform-native concepts, interprets creative testing data, and creates iterative performance assets. Collaborates with marketing, compliance, product, and regional teams while maintaining high craft, speed, and regulatory standards.

Lead complex market abuse investigations, review analysts’ work, and present findings to senior stakeholders. Support surveillance threshold and model calibration, platform tooling, suspicious activity reporting, risk assessments, and surveillance coverage development. The role requires market conduct investigation experience, knowledge of abuse typologies across asset classes, surveillance platform expertise, SQL proficiency, strong written judgment, and the ability to escalate issues appropriately.

Conduct market surveillance across regulated crypto and financial markets by reviewing alerts, analyzing trade and order data, investigating potential market abuse, assessing referrals, drafting suspicious activity and transaction reports, producing regulatory reporting, and supporting surveillance platform enhancements. The role also uses AI and automation for evidence gathering while applying human judgment and maintaining compliance standards.

Leads AML transaction-monitoring optimization, rule testing, threshold tuning, scenario design, and false-positive reduction. Drives FIU automation and workflow improvements, evaluates AI and LLM tools, supports alert triage and investigations, and partners with Product, Engineering, Operations, and vendors on compliance technology integrations. Helps scale monitoring frameworks across products, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes while maintaining regulatory alignment.

Source exceptional talent across technology and non-technical roles for Payward’s global businesses. Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to develop hiring strategies, conduct Boolean and X-ray searches, build candidate pipelines, and provide market intelligence. Use data and research to improve sourcing processes, represent the company to candidates, and support hiring initiatives in a fast-paced, remote-first fintech and crypto environment.

Build and operate production AI infrastructure powering intelligent agents at scale. Develop high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution; design scalable distributed systems; establish MLOps, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery; and optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost. Partner with agent systems and infrastructure teams to turn prototypes into hardened services serving millions of users.

Own daily operations and quality assurance for an internal AI-powered growth platform. Test releases, rule changes, edge cases, and regressions; document and verify bug fixes; monitor platform and agent activity; manage approval queues; evaluate agent output; escalate risks; and maintain test plans, QA checklists, runbooks, and release notes.

Designs static 2D and 3D brand creative for product launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing marketing. Creates Cinema 4D assets, extends brand systems across channels and markets, builds Figma libraries and localization-ready templates, and uses AI-assisted production tools. Partners with marketing, compliance, regional, motion, web, and performance teams to deliver approved work. Maintains a high craft standard, contributes strategic ideas, and provides constructive design feedback.

Own Kraken Pro’s organic growth strategy across SEO, content, social, community, referrals, and partnerships. Lead acquisition from discovery through first trade, improve UX and conversion funnels, run experiments, build growth dashboards, and develop brand-driven acquisition. Manage and coach a lean team while partnering with Product, Design, Legal, and Communications to deliver compliant, high-impact growth across regions.

Provides senior legal counsel for European Union products, licensing, regulatory strategy, payments, crypto-assets, banking, and financial services. Advises Product, Engineering, Compliance, and leadership on regulatory classification, launches, risk, and supervisory matters. Oversees licensing workstreams, regulator relationships, outside counsel, contractual drafting, and legal operations. Mentors lawyers and uses AI tools to improve legal-service efficiency.

Own the strategy, design, prototyping, launch, and optimization of social investing and trading experiences. Define user journeys, interaction details, experiments, and success metrics; conduct usability research; analyze funnel and retention data; collaborate with design, engineering, and data science; and prioritize improvements across feeds, profiles, sharing, discovery, and community features.

Own the vision and roadmap for a global payments platform, including its backend, APIs, SDKs, hosted pages, and embedded components. Define requirements across internal clients, prioritize capabilities, partner with engineering and banking teams, coordinate integrations, incorporate compliance and risk needs, and track adoption and payment performance metrics. The role requires strong payments knowledge, technical fluency, developer-product experience, structured communication, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making.

Lead global external communications for professional trading, derivatives, and institutional products. Develop integrated communications strategies, thought leadership, messaging, media materials, executive communications, and spokesperson programs. Build relationships with institutional stakeholders, trading desks, market data providers, internal teams, and agencies. Apply social-first media relations and content strategies while mentoring and scaling communications teams in a fast-paced crypto environment.

Own the investigation-platform roadmap for Financial Crime Operations, including alert ingestion, enrichment, grouping, suppression, case management, investigator workflows, auditability, and regulated AI automation. Translate compliance policies and investigator needs into requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, validate system design and data flows, support audits, and ensure controls for explainability, evidence retention, lineage, and change management.