Staff Engineer - Growth - Verifications

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. 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 Pro Verifications team decides whether a business signing up on the Pro side is who it says it is, and whether we're allowed to onboard it. That means figuring out who actually owns the business, running it against sanctions and watchlists, and doing all of it fast enough that a real customer doesn't lose patience and leave. Every Pro customer hits these systems, so slow or wrong is very visible — and the team is early, which means whoever joins gets to decide how a lot of it works instead of inheriting it. How We Work - We deploy constantly, almost always behind a flag, in pieces small enough to pull back fast. - Security and compliance show up at design time, not as a gate at the end. - Every story is tied to a metric it's meant to move — if work isn't on the board, it doesn't get staffed. - At this level, you're expected to shape these standards, not just work inside them.   THE OPPORTUNITY As a Staff Engineer on Pro Verifications, you'll own the technical direction for how verification is built here — the architecture, the patterns other engineers work inside, and the calls about what we own versus what we lean on a vendor for. You'll be hands-on across the stack, drive out entire classes of recurring failure rather than patching them one at a time, and design the fail-closed and audit behavior that keeps regu

Key Responsibilities

• We deploy constantly, almost always behind a flag, in pieces small enough to pull back fast.
• Security and compliance show up at design time, not as a gate at the end.
• Every story is tied to a metric it's meant to move — if work isn't on the board, it doesn't get staffed.
• At this level, you're expected to shape these standards, not just work inside them.

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.