About Kraken
Kraken is a crypto platform offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services to individual investors and institutional clients. Its products are built on a globally accessible financial infrastructure platform designed to advance an open, global financial system.
Responsibilities
•Own the product vision and roadmap for the exchange layer, including the matching engine, core infrastructure, third-party custody, algo engine, and API engine
•Lead and grow a team of four to five product managers, and set the bar for product craft across the layer
•Consolidate multiple matching engines into one, starting with US derivatives, then international derivatives, then spot
•Build an interface-agnostic platform that product teams and interfaces can share
•Define success metrics, including p99 latency, throughput, uptime, and resiliency, and hold teams accountable to them
•Partner with engineering leaders across exchange and core infrastructure to sequence the migration without disrupting live markets
•Partner with Risk and Credit Infrastructure so clients can hold one account and trade every product against it
•Anticipate industry shifts and shape the platform to stay ahead
•Align product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams around the exchange strategy
Requirements
•Senior product leadership experience in exchange, trading, or high-performance platforms
•Experience managing and developing product managers
•Able to work as a player-coach, owning roadmaps and writing specifications when needed
•Proven ability to set product vision and translate it into a long-term roadmap
•Strong understanding of matching engine and market data architecture, including low-latency tradeoffs
•Experience building platforms for internal customers and distinguishing platforms from bespoke builds
•Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
•Passion for crypto markets, market structure, and building next-generation infrastructure
Nice to have
•An engineering background building or operating high-performance systems
•Experience across spot and derivatives venues
•Experience at a crypto exchange with comparable scale, volume, and uptime expectations
•A track record of building platform roadmaps that interlock with adjacent product organizations
Conditions
•Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific application deadline is stated
•Applicants may redact or remove resume information identifying age, date of birth, or dates of educational attendance or graduation
•Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered consistently with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
•Candidates may be asked to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process
