Engineering Manager - Pro

As an Engineering Manager at Kraken, you lead a team of 8-10 engineers owning core trading backend services, including the matching engine, market data gateways, and order entry systems. You guide the team through the evolution of the trading stack from legacy systems to modern replacements, staying technically engaged enough to unblock, review, and contribute to architecture discussions. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions, offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a team of 8-10 engineers owning core trading backend services, including the matching engine, market data gateways, and order entry systems
• Guide the team through the ongoing evolution of the trading stack, from legacy systems to their modern replacements
• Stay technically close enough to unblock, review, and contribute to architecture discussions across matching engine, market data, and order entry work, with the ability to jump in and assist with coding
• Champion performance and market data work as top priorities while supporting the team's broader technical scope
• Bring AI-assisted engineering practices into the team's workflow and help engineers adopt them
• Partner cross-functionally with product and other engineering pods to drive roadmap execution
• Represent the team technically with peer teams and stakeholders, communicating tradeoffs and progress clearly

What you bring

• Experience managing engineering teams, with a preference for managers who stay technically engaged rather than purely administrative
• Prior hands-on experience in at least one of the following using Linux: distributed and/or highly-concurrent systems, or low-latency and/or high-volume transaction environments
• Proficiency in Rust and/or C++, with comfort operating in a team split across C++, Rust, Go, and Python
• Demonstrated knowledge of order types, trading systems, and financial products
• Proactive mindset with the ability to prioritize across a technically deep team and adhere to aggressive deadlines
• A BS in a technical or quantitative field
• Cryptocurrency or blockchain familiarity highly preferable

Nice to have

• Experience with Aeron or similar messaging and transport systems
• Comfort with multicast-based market data distribution

About Kraken

Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions. The company is part of Payward, which also operates NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, building modern financial infrastructure to advance an open, global financial system.