Backend Engineer, Kraken Futures - Kotlin/Java and Rust (Remote)

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About Kraken

As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world.

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*Role is based in GMT + or - 2 hours*

Our Engineering team is having a blast while delivering the most sophisticated crypto-trading platform out there. Help us continue to define and lead the industry.

As part of Kraken Futures Backend team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers building Kraken Futures infrastructure using Rust. As a Backend Engineer, you help design and implement new services, and port legacy ones into Rust. You will work on projects through their lifecycle, from their initial requirements, implementation and up to production.

Responsibilities

Design and implementation of Micro-services in Kotlin/Java and Rust

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

Implementation of security and data protection services

Write highly scalable, latency sensitive and high volume services

Build and maintain internal developer tools

Production support and troubleshooting

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience in software engineering or Open source contributions/personal projects

Experience writing asynchronous code

Experience writing code in Rust

Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system

Proactive, self-driven mindset

Good communicator

Nice to have

Have experience using Kubernetes

Be familiar with core AWS services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS)

Have experience building CI pipelines and/or developer tools

Have experience with other strongly typed languages

Experience with distributed systems, messaging systems, Kafka, SQL

Be passionate about secure, reliable and fast software

Open source contributions, including in Rust

Familiar with Java/Kotlin and the JVM

Experience using docker

Experience using Linux

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We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique and diverse experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives, regardless of their background. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

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