Engineering Manager Pro
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for trading backend services. You will guide modernization work, contribute to technical and architecture discussions, prioritize performance and market-data initiatives, promote AI-assisted engineering practices, partner on roadmap delivery, and communicate technical tradeoffs and progress to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Engineering management
- Linux
- Distributed system
- Concurrent system
- Low-latency system
- Transaction processing
- Rust
- C++
- Go
- Python
- Order type
- Trading system
- Financial product
- Aeron
- Multicast
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of 8–10 engineers
- Guide modernization of the trading stack
- Unblock engineers and contribute to architecture discussions
- Champion performance and market-data work
- Introduce AI-assisted engineering practices
- Partner with product and engineering teams on roadmap execution
- Communicate technical tradeoffs and progress
