Remote Software Engineer in Test (Rust) - Core Backend

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. 

About the Role

The Core Backend team is looking for a highly experienced developer that will drive quality on our internal and external APIs through expansion of our automation framework. As a Rust QA Engineer you would drive efforts both by producing high quality tests and through mentoring more junior members. 

Your critical thinking and data reporting will shape the future of our product. Read more about the team's journey to Rust in our Engineering blog!

Responsibilities

• Own automated Quality Assurance testing for the Core Backend team
• Deliver automated test cases in our Rust Cucumber framework from feature stories and bug reports
• Create highly reusable test steps that can be easily used by others to write test cases
• Advocate for quality in all aspects of our product
• Write tickets for failed test cases
• Reporting and documentation of test results
• Develop and monitor KPIs for the automation team
• Some limited manual testing as assigned and to better understand new features
• Review MRs and coach more junior members on best practices
• Collaborate with other automation engineers across the Kraken family of products to cross train and create a uniform look and feel to our testing infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Passionate about the Kraken mission of accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency so that the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
• An API test developer with a passion for Quality Assurance
• Experienced in Rust, PHP a plus
• Experience with REST and WebSocket APIs
• Experience using Git.
• Strong experience with end-to-end testing strategies
• Must understand the difference between buy/sell at market vs limit, must understand long and short positions as well as margin trades.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant fields (computer science or finance) and 5 years QA automation experience or equivalent industry experience.