Kraken - Staff Engineer

• Around eight years building and running production systems, with a track record of owning a domain's technical direction, not just delivering inside one. • Deep, fluent expertise in Rust, with the versatility to work across TypeScript and React where verification meets the customer. • You've set architecture other people build on, and it held up — you can point to specific classes of failure you designed out, not just incidents you fixed. • You've made teams faster through patterns, tooling, or mentoring — engineers around you got better and shipped more because of calls you made. • You've built where being wrong had real consequences: compliance, payments, security, or anywhere a bad call costs more than a rough user experience. • Strong on distributed systems, service contracts, and secure design — you've integrated third-party APIs that couldn't be trusted, with real timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, and backup paths that actually get tested. • Comfortable with, or able to quickly ramp on, gRPC, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and GitLab CI. • Direct experience with KYC, KYB, or fraud work, including integrating providers like Trulioo, Persona, or ComplyAdvantage. • Comfort building with AI in the loop. • Time spent in crypto, fintech, or another space regulators pay close attention to. • Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. • Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. • We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. • Our commitment • Our commitment • Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto. • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.