Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Lead business operations for Kraken Pro by establishing operating rhythms, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, tracking KPIs, supporting executive decisions, managing reporting and roadmaps, triaging inbound requests, and improving operational efficiency. The role partners with product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and marketing teams to launch initiatives across trading and infrastructure products and enhance the product experience.

Provide legal and regulatory guidance on UK cryptoassets, e-money, payment services, AML/CTF, operational resilience, outsourcing, and related products. Support FCA engagement, licensing and registration workstreams, corporate transaction notifications, and regulatory correspondence. Translate complex frameworks into practical advice for business stakeholders while independently managing broad BAU regulatory matters. The role requires a UK-qualified lawyer with substantial financial services regulatory experience, including cryptoasset, payments, and regulator engagement expertise.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Operate and scale high-throughput MariaDB/MySQL clusters supporting globally distributed financial services. Responsibilities include database tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, automation, observability, security, containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and partnership with engineering teams. The role also participates in on-call rotations and improves operational reliability through SRE practices, documentation, measurable KPIs, and preventative engineering.

The Mobile UI/Design Engineer will enhance the Kraken app's UI with fluid, gesture-driven interactions in React Native, optimizing for performance and mentoring other engineers.

Build and ship agent orchestration workflows, integrations, and shared infrastructure for AI-driven growth across paid media, lifecycle, organic content, CRO, incentives, and referrals. Implement monitoring, audit logging, creative generation pipelines, and reliable integrations so domain experts can tune and operate workflows independently.

The Software Engineer will design and maintain payment processing systems, mentor other engineers, and ensure security in client transactions within the crypto ecosystem.

Leads commercial legal strategy for complex product partnerships and technology agreements. Advises Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Regulatory, Compliance, and Tax teams on go-to-market structures, negotiations, risk, and contract execution. Develops legal templates, playbooks, AI processes, and risk frameworks; improves contract lifecycle management and automation; mentors teams; and supports M&A diligence and integration. The role requires independent judgment in a fast-paced, remote-first fintech environment.

Supports global M&A, strategic investments, and venture portfolio management. Responsibilities include leading transaction diligence, maintaining data rooms, building financial models and valuation analyses, screening opportunities, tracking portfolio performance, forecasting deal-related cash obligations, and preparing executive and Board materials. The role requires strong financial modeling, business analysis, writing, storytelling, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority transactions independently.

Define and execute Kraken’s hybridization and on-chain product strategy across Pro and Consumer products. Own roadmaps, cross-functional execution, ecosystem partnerships, product metrics, experimentation, and the full lifecycle from discovery through iteration. Simplify complex on-chain experiences for consumers while aligning Engineering, Design, Growth, Security, Operations, Legal, and external partners.

Design and specify automated paid-growth workflows, collaborate with engineers to implement agent-driven campaigns, QA agent outputs, refine AI-generated creative, and extend automation to CRO, incentives, referrals, and lifecycle growth functions.

The Senior AI Compute Infrastructure Engineer will manage and optimize GPU and accelerator clusters for AI workloads, collaborate with teams, and ensure reliable performance and cost efficiency.

Design and verify secure architectures across infrastructure, applications, blockchain, Rust, and AI projects. Perform in-depth security assessments and audits, recommend mitigations, and embed with engineering teams to improve security posture and operational practices.

Lead and manage SOC 1/SOC 2 examinations and SOX 404 IT control activities; assess ITGCs/ITACs, perform gap and impact assessments, drive remediation, collect auditor-ready evidence, and partner cross-functionally to design scalable controls for cloud and hybrid environments.

Lead and evolve Payward's core brand system: guidelines, component libraries, templates, and assets. Raise brand quality across product pods through systems thinking, guidance, and design reviews. Define identity standards for new surfaces (including AI and motion), collaborate with designers, PMs, and marketers, and translate complex crypto and finance concepts into usable brand guidance.

Lead Consumer Trading product initiatives for Kraken: prototype features with AI tools, define product requirements, run UAT, collaborate with stakeholders, finance and operations, use analytics and experimentation to drive product decisions, and evaluate new consumer product opportunities.

Lead global financial crime and conduct audits across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery, market integrity, and conduct risk. Perform risk assessments, design and execute control testing, manage multiple engagements end-to-end, document findings, track remediation, apply AI-enabled auditing and data analytics, and present results to senior stakeholders and regulators.

Own product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for fraud and ATO solutions. Lead end-to-end feature delivery, define APIs, workflows, and operational processes, coordinate with engineering, legal, finance, risk and vendors, and build case management, detection, and investigation systems that protect users while minimizing friction.

Lead end-to-end M&A and venture transactions: source and evaluate opportunities, build pro forma financial models and valuations, coordinate due diligence, negotiate terms, drive integration planning, advise leadership, build industry networks, mentor team members, and improve corporate development processes.

Provide hands-on regulatory legal support for Kraken/Payward's EU and UK products, focusing on cryptoasset regime compliance, e-money/payments, regulator engagement, licensing workstreams, notifications, and operational resilience. Translate complex laws (MiCA/UK Cryptoasset Regime, AML/CTF, DORA, payments rules) into pragmatic, plain-English guidance and independently own day-to-day BAU regulatory relationships.