Senior AI Engineer - Growth
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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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
Build and ship agent orchestration workflows, automated growth workflows, system integrations, shared agent infrastructure, monitoring and audit logging, and creative and content generation pipelines. Move workflows from specification to production, ensure integrations handle errors reliably, and document workflows so domain specialists can maintain and improve them.
Requirements
- 3+ years building automation workflows, integrations, or agentic systems
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication patterns, and error handling at scale
- Experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool use, and agent chaining
- Ability to work accurately from specifications
- Understanding of growth or marketing contexts
- Ability to balance speed and quality
Responsibilities
- Build agent orchestration workflows across paid media, lifecycle messaging, organic content, conversion optimization, incentives, and other growth use cases
- Integrate AI reasoning, growth execution platforms, data infrastructure, experimentation systems, and analytics tools
- Develop reusable workflow patterns, prompt libraries, and integration clients
- Implement monitoring and audit logging for agent actions
- Build creative and content generation pipelines
- Move workflows from specifications to production
- Maintain reliable system integrations and document workflows
Hiring Process
Candidates may complete job-related skills or work-style assessments. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews and are not the sole basis for employment decisions.