Senior Software Engineer – Agent Systems

About the Role

BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. PROOF OF WORK   THE TEAM Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. The Agent Systems team is a 0→1 engineering group building internal AI-powered agents that interact directly with company systems. The mandate is to dramatically increase internal speed of execution through automation, intelligent inference, and workflow orchestration. This team operates at the intersection of AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering. The work is pragmatic and fast-moving — prototypes are expected, but the bar for production reliability remains high. Engineers on this team move fluidly between experimentation and shipping, building systems that reason over user interactions and take meaningful action across internal tools. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners across product, infrastructure, and internal operations to deploy agent-driven capabilities that compound leverage across the organization.   THE OPPORTUNITY - Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths - Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems - Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable - Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources - Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution -

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths
• Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems
• Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable
• Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources
• Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.