Teams at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Provide legal and regulatory guidance on UK cryptoassets, e-money, payment services, AML/CTF, operational resilience, outsourcing, and related products. Support FCA engagement, licensing and registration workstreams, corporate transaction notifications, and regulatory correspondence. Translate complex frameworks into practical advice for business stakeholders while independently managing broad BAU regulatory matters. The role requires a UK-qualified lawyer with substantial financial services regulatory experience, including cryptoasset, payments, and regulator engagement expertise.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Operate and scale high-throughput MariaDB/MySQL clusters supporting globally distributed financial services. Responsibilities include database tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, automation, observability, security, containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and partnership with engineering teams. The role also participates in on-call rotations and improves operational reliability through SRE practices, documentation, measurable KPIs, and preventative engineering.