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  • Architect and ship new backend capabilities that integrate AI-adjacent functionality into Kraken’s core systems.
  • Design distributed services that meet high standards for reliability, performance, and correctness.
  • Own end-to-end technical design, from protocol and service boundaries through production deployment.

Rust Go C++ Kubernetes AI

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Global

  • Lead a strong team that develops and maintains core software for the Kraken backend platform
  • Design and implement libraries and microservices in Rust
  • Contribute to technical direction in design and review discussions for APIs, distributed systems, and foundational libraries

Kraken is a mission-focused company that is rooted in crypto values. They aim to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Kraken is fully remote with Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

Global

  • Develop and maintain core framework and key software components for the Kraken trading engine
  • Build and design solutions that mitigate risk, implement security, and protect both systems and data
  • Improve site performance by designing and implementing low-latency and high-availability applications

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. They develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. As a fully remote company, they have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

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  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana around the globe. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack. Their team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything they do.

$200,000–$245,000/yr
US

  • Expert Rust engineer, sets standards, mentors others, and elevates the team’s Rust maturity.
  • Contribute to new product development of complex in-browser applications.
  • Architect and implement complex applications that apply ML techniques to large volumes of data.

Machinify is a healthcare intelligence company delivering value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients. They deploy an AI-powered platform to over 85 health plans, representing more than 270 million lives, to maximize financial outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

US

  • Analyze requirements and propose innovative AI-native solutions to technical problems
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WorkHero is building the AI-powered back office for the skilled trades, starting with the $50B+ HVAC industry. They have exciting traction and just closed a $5M seed round to expand their engineering and product organization, as well as add additional services.

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  • Build and scale the AI Agent platform.
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Podium brings AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses, they have crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year and empowering real business outcomes for their customers.

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  • Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
  • Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
  • Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.

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Global

  • Set long-term technical direction for Kraken’s AI/ML strategy, influencing multiple teams and initiatives.
  • Own the architecture and evolution of core AI/ML systems, including training, feature management, serving, experimentation, and monitoring.
  • Lead cross-team efforts to standardize ML development and operational practices across the company.

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. As a fully remote company, they have Krakenites in 70+ countries and is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support.

Global

  • Own the core earnings service that drives reward calculation, rate setting, and distribution across all Earn products
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Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. As a fully remote company, Kraken has Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

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Europe

  • Be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python or Kotlin, operating within Affirm’s microservice and event-driven architecture.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve system reliability, team efficiency, or architecture and lead efforts to address them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. They are a remote-first company with an emphasis on valuing their employees.

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1Password is building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future, innovating in the market-leading enterprise password manager space and pioneering Extended Access Management. With over 180,000 businesses trusting 1Password, they take a human-centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience, fostering collaboration, transparency, and valuing employee contributions.

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  • Build and maintain backend services and APIs for Pulley's equity platform.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of features, from scoping to production rollout.
  • Drive performance and reliability improvements across backend systems.

Pulley's mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company. They provide cap table management tools, helping companies understand and optimize their equity for the long term. Pulley is growing quickly with over 4,000 customers and is backed by top investors. They foster a high-performing team environment focused on innovation and organic growth.

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  • Support teammates with goal-setting, professional development, and mentoring.
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  • Build and sustain a healthy team culture where ownership and collaboration are the norm.

onX is a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation solutions through its suite of apps. With over 400 employees, they foster a fast-paced, tech-forward environment valuing ownership, accountability, and teamwork.

US

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  • Deliver meaningful system improvements that increase scalability, correctness, and developer velocity.

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$150,000–$180,000/yr
US

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ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to help enterprises and organizations stay ahead of emerging threats. They combine the power of NDR with NPM, IDS, and forensics in a single, integrated platform, and are recognized for innovation and building a world-class team.

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US 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
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Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack. Their team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything they do.

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  • Design and scale backend systems that power our consumer facing products.
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