Remote Software Engineer in Test (Trading)

Who We Are

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. In our first decade, Kraken has risen to become one of the largest, most successful and respected crypto exchanges on the planet. 

We are changing the way the world thinks about finance and our range of successful products are playing a critical role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets. We continue to trail-blaze into new territory with the introduction of Kraken Bank, providing a more seamless integration between crypto and the traditional financial system. This makes us the first crypto company (ever) to be awarded a U.S. state banking charter. 

This is a fully remote role. We will consider applicants based in North America and Europe.

Responsibilities

• Identify test coverage gaps in new and existing back-end trading components
• Build out test coverage, writing all tests using an imperative programming language
• Write CI scripts, ensuring test failure reasons are clear to developers reading the CI logs
• Build out modular test code repositories, pushing code daily or near daily
• Track project priorities and deadlines and ensure test coverage is adequate before release
• Raise awareness of any testing gaps and risks to project leaders on an ongoing basis
• Work independently to read through existing test code and CI scripts to understand how things work

Requirements

• 5+ years combined professional experience between development and testing work
• Proven experience writing new software functionality or tools independently from scratch
• Comfortable working in codebases of up to several thousands of lines of code with minimal assistance
• Comfortable writing not only tests but all frameworks and tooling required to support new functionality
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded code
• Comfortable working from the command line and writing tools targeting this mode of operation
• Comfortable and productive working on a remote-first, asynchronous basis
• Familiar with common communication protocols (HTTP, SSL/TLS, TCP) and data serialization formats
• Familiar with Unix-based operating systems, Docker, and Git
• BS in computer science or a related quantitative field