Senior Software Engineer - Smart Contracts
Kraken Digital Asset ExchangeJoin Kraken as a Senior Software Engineer - Smart Contracts
About Kraken
Kraken is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform, known for its security and commitment to accelerating the global adoption of crypto. With over 10 million users worldwide, Kraken offers a wide range of digital assets and national currencies for trading. As a fully remote company, Kraken employs a diverse team of professionals from over 70 countries.
Role Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Smart Contracts, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Kraken's onchain strategy. This is a high-impact opportunity to innovate and lead the development of secure, efficient, and scalable smart contracts on Ethereum L2. You will be responsible for designing, testing, and deploying smart contracts, focusing on liquid staking, restaking products, and yield optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Innovate and Lead: Shape and build the onchain strategy of Kraken, focusing on liquid staking and yield optimization.
- Technical Excellence: Design, test, and deploy secure, efficient, and scalable smart contracts on Ethereum L2.
- Independent Research: Bring your own ideas and research to shape Kraken’s onchain vision.
- Community Engagement: Attend conferences, network in the onchain ecosystem, and contribute to open-source projects.
Skills and Experience
- Proven track record as an onchain developer with experience in delivering onchain products or protocol work on EVM-based chains.
- Experience in writing, deploying, and managing secure, EVM-compatible smart contracts.
- Proficiency with blockchain and smart contract developer tooling (e.g., Foundry, ethers-rs, alloy-rs).
- Ability to work primarily in Solidity and build scalable backend services in Rust or Go.
- Up-to-date with the latest developments in smart contract standards and DeFi innovations.
- Technical leadership skills, including mentoring others and helping to bring their ideas to proof of concept.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with security auditing tools such as Slither, Mythril, Echidna.
- Familiarity with multiple Ethereum rollup stacks.
- Experience with non-EVM chains/ecosystems (e.g., Bitcoin, Dotsama, Cosmos, Solana).
Why Join Kraken?
- Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world.
- Diverse Team: Join a team of industry pioneers from over 70 countries.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Become a Krakenite and help build the future of crypto!
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Remote work
- Diverse team
- Equal opportunity employer
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