Director of Engineering - Core Backend
Kraken
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- Manage, support, and mentor software engineering teams for their growth and development
- Contribute to our Engineering Excellence culture
- Collaborate with other departments like Product and Ops, and with the Kraken Leadership team
- Make strategic and tactical decisions to drive company success
- Demonstrate technical leadership, emphasizing clean architecture, performance, and reliability
Skills you HODL
- Advanced degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience
- Over a decade of software development experience, primarily in backend development
- Expertise in modern software architecture, API design, and event-driven systems, including web and mobile client application development
- Skilled at seamlessly shifting between merge request reviews, executive presentations, and coding as needed
- Maintains technical prowess at a Staff+ individual contributor level
- Charismatic leader with strong communication and business acumen, adept at stakeholder management and influencing without formal authority
- Proven track record as a successful engineering leader, with over five years of team leadership experience including more than two years of remote team management
- Enthusiastic about cryptocurrency's potential for positive transformation
- Passionate about software engineering, process improvement, and driving change
Nice to haves
- Industry experience with modern programming languages (OCaml, Rust, Kotlin) and with large scale, low-latency systems
- Prior experience in fintech / building software moving money
- Demonstrable interest in Rust and its applicability to contemporary tech challenges
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