The team

Join our Exchange team and start building the internet of money. The Exchange team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, margin systems and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in C++, Go, Rust, and Python, depending on the product they are contributing to within Kraken.

This role sits within the Trading Technologies sub-team, which owns the messaging and transport layer at the core of our trading infrastructure — built on Aeron for ultra-low-latency, reliable UDP messaging. You'll work directly on the systems that move market data, orders, and trade events across our exchange at microsecond scale.

The opportunity Develop and maintain core framework and key software components for the Kraken trading engine, with a fous on the Aeron-...