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Software Engineer - Database - Bitnomial
@ Kraken
Remote in Canada
Overview
Kraken is hiring a Software Engineer for its Bitnomial team to build Haskell services and database schemas for a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage. The role is full-time and involves feature delivery, schema and migration design, query tuning, and on-call operational support. The posting states that applicants with criminal histories are considered under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Responsibilities:
- Build and ship features in Haskell services for the exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage
- Design schema, constraints and indexes using exact numeric types and audit trails
- Write lock-safe, reversible migrations on large tables and review peers' migrations
- Read execution plans and fix slow queries from production metrics
- Monitor systems, respond to alerts and support settlement cycles
Requirements summary:
- 3+ years of software engineering with Haskell, Rust or C++
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including transactions and isolation levels
- Solid distributed systems and computer science fundamentals
- Willingness to take part in on-call and operational shifts
- Care and rigor with code and data that move money
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-10
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Kraken
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Own the power of your money. Crypto, stocks, futures and more — since 2011.
Full company description
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, we're one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. We've grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the world's leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
- LinkedIn followers
- 280,559
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 1,093
- Reported office locations
- Remote First, US
- Business categories
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Stock Exchanges
- Asset Management
- Personal Finance
- Bitcoin
- FinTech
- Trading Platform
- Financial Services
- Financial Exchanges
- Ethereum
- Other recorded names
- Kraken
- Specialties
- Bitcoin
- Litecoin
- Dogecoin
- Ethereum
- Cryptocurrency
- Digital Assets
- Virtual Currency
- Markets
- Security
- Financial Services
- Wallet
- Compliance
- Blockchain
- Index
- Parachain Auctions
- Staking
- Proof of Reserves
- and NFT
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- Reported total investment
- 1,630,550,000
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Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, we're one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Remote First |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2011 |
| Specialties | BitcoinLitecoinDogecoinEthereumCryptocurrencyDigital AssetsVirtual CurrencyMarketsSecurityFinancial Services |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 32 |
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Building the Future of Open Finance
Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
The team
Bitnomial is building the next generation US-based global derivatives exchange, starting with digital assets and progressively expanding to encompass a full spectrum of commodities worldwide. Bitnomial operates a US CFTC regulated exchange (DCM), clearinghouse (DCO), and brokerage (FCM). It offers a range of crypto-settled derivatives, including futures, options, and a suite of live perpetual futures, used by brokers, hedge funds, institutions, and trading firms around the world.
Bitnomial's exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems are written largely in Haskell. In this role you will build the services and data models that record every order, fill, and settlement at a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, with the database as a first-class part of the design. You will build features across these systems and design the schema, queries, and migrations behind them.
The opportunity
Build, test, and ship well-typed, well-reviewed features and fixes in Haskell services across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage
Understand the order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end
Design schema, constraints, and indexes for new features, using exact numeric types and audit trails so financial values cannot drift
Write migrations that are lock-safe and reversible on large tables, and review the migrations of other engineers
Read execution plans, find slow queries from production metrics, and fix the cause in the query, the index, or the access pattern
Monitor systems, respond to alerts, and support daily operations such as settlement cycles
Fix the cause of production issues and write down what you learned
What you bring
3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a functional or strongly typed programming language such as Haskell, Rust, or C++
Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including transactions and isolation levels
Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems: replication, consistency, retries and idempotency, and how services keep shared data correct when parts fail
Willingness to take part in on-call and operational shifts
Care and rigor with code and data that move money. You measure before you tune
Good judgment with AI tools. You use them to work faster, and you read, test, and understand what they produce before you ship it
A habit of asking why before changing something
Sound judgment under pressure, with a calm and methodical approach when production is live
Collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance, with a habit of documenting
Nice to haves
Financial knowledge or experience in trading, markets, or financial services
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Haskell experience, particularly with PostgreSQL-backed services
Production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL
Experience with time series or market data at volume, such as tick data, order books, or event streams
Experience with Atlas or another declarative schema management tool
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
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
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