Senior Software Engineer - AI Enablement Finance

Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Kraken is a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. We develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers, and are committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world‑class client support through products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

The Team

Kraken’s Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world’s most trusted crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto‑native asset reconciliation.

As financial complexity grows with Kraken’s global footprint, this role architects and builds to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations.

The Opportunity

You will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI‑native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:

• Assess and map Finance operations: Evaluate current financial workflows and identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems.
• Architect the agentic finance platform: Design the long‑term architecture for an AI‑native finance operating system, simplify the stack, and define a scalable target architecture.
• Build and deploy production finance automation: Deploy agentic workflows to automate reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.
• Own AI governance for Finance: Establish guardrails, build frameworks covering data classification, auditability, human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints, and regulatory compliance.
• Build the foundation for AI‑native Finance: Create reusable frameworks, train finance professionals, and build metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI.

Skills You Should HODL

• Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments used by others.
• Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi‑agent system design, and the failure modes of autonomous AI workflows in high‑stakes operational environments.
• Strong systems architecture capability: move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without external consultants.
• Hands‑on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
• Strong domain knowledge of finance operations, including close processes, reconciliations, treasury, financial reporting, and controls in a regulated environment.
• Experience deploying automation in a SOX‑regulated or equivalent compliance environment.
• Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.
• Strong communicator who can bridge finance, technical, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership and bias toward execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience with finance systems stack such as NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, or Lukka.
• Background as a Head of Product or Head of Engineering at an AI‑native company, AI systems architect, or founder/early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.
• Familiarity with crypto‑native financial infrastructure, including digital asset custody and on‑chain reconciliation.
• Experience in high‑velocity or resource‑constrained environments like startup or PE‑backed company.
• Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in a financial services context.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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