Software Engineer II - Backend - Payments
Kraken·Mid-level·Remote · Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Poland
Posted Sep 18, 2026·kraken.com
Overview
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 team
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are currently seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team to be focused on our payments systems.
The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken. Join our Payments team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of payments.
The opportunity
- Design and implement robust services and libraries for payments integration across our products at Kraken
- Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Fronted Engineering to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements in a large scale distributed systems architecture
- Partner closely with crypto native engineers
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in writing clean, scalable backend code in a systems language, with preference to Rust or Node/Typescript
- Demonstrated commitment to a security-first mindset when designing systems
- Capability to autonomously debug issues across the stack, including OS, network, and application layers
- Familiarity with distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event Driven Systems
