Head of Financial Systems Engineering

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

. Report to the CFO and lead the engineering vision for Kraken’s financial systems .

Posted 10/21/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $134,200 - $298,900 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering vision for financial systems, with a strong focus on data architecture, reconciliation, and compliance. Proven ability to translate finance priorities into actionable technical strategies while ensuring data integrity and operational reliability.

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Technical LeadershipFinancial Systems ArchitectureData EngineeringReconciliation ExpertiseExperience with Crypto Infrastructure

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringData ArchitectureAPIsEvent-Driven ProcessingReconciliationData CompletenessIncident ResponseMonitoringDebuggingChange Management

Soft Skills

CoachingCross-Functional PartnershipCommunicationJudgmentOwnership

Tools & Technologies

RustTypeScriptNode.jsPythonNetSuiteKyribaBlackLine

Certifications & Qualifications

SOXSOC

Industry Keywords

LedgersSubledgersDouble-Entry ConceptsOperational EventsAuditable Financial RecordsDigital Asset InfrastructureCustody FlowsTraditional Financial Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsPythonRustTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Report to the CFO and lead the engineering vision for Kraken’s financial systems
Translate Finance priorities into a technical strategy and delivery roadmap
Assess fragmented data, processes, and technical debt; define target architecture and phased transformation plan
Lead, coach, and grow specialists across financial systems, data engineering, integrations, and ledger-related services
Establish standards for completeness, quality, lineage, and ownership of financial data
Contribute to architecture decisions for ledgers, subledgers, financial data models, APIs, and integrations across fiat and crypto activity
Partner with Accounting and Treasury on account and legal entity attribution, controls, reconciliation, exception handling, and record traceability
Lead modernization and migration while maintaining close, reporting, fund movements, and critical Finance operations
Establish testing, documentation, observability, release controls, and incident response practices
Partner with Product, platform engineering, Risk, Security, Compliance, Tax, and Legal on system boundaries, access controls, resilience, regulatory needs, and auditability
Evaluate build, buy, and integration options; review designs and communicate decisions, sequencing, risks, and tradeoffs
Move key reconciliations from monthly to daily cadence
Reduce reconciliation-break root-cause analysis from weeks to days
Map and validate source tables and transformations feeding financial statements
Complete UAT data lake connections for end-to-end financial data-flow testing

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant software engineering and technical leadership experience, including leading experienced teams through complex financial systems or data architecture change
Strong track record of hiring, coaching, and developing specialists while creating clear ownership, high engineering standards, and effective cross-functional partnerships
Deep understanding of ledgers, subledgers, double-entry concepts, reconciliation, settlement, and the path from an operational event to an auditable financial record
Experience with crypto or digital asset infrastructure and connecting on-chain activity, internal balances, custody or wallet flows, and traditional financial systems
Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, data engineering, APIs, event-driven processing, and integrations across complex platforms
Experience defining a target architecture and delivering a transformation roadmap across fragmented or legacy systems while sustaining production reliability
Experience designing for data completeness, accuracy, lineage, reconciliation, access control, and auditability
Sound judgment in production operations, including incident response, monitoring, debugging, change management, and reliability improvements
Ability to partner with senior Finance and Engineering leaders and translate financial, operational, and control needs into a practical engineering roadmap
Ability to lead experts and communicate priorities and tradeoffs to executives and technical teams
Experience with Rust, TypeScript/Node.js, or Python; finance applications such as NetSuite, Kyriba, or BlackLine; and SOX or SOC control environments is valuable
Must select a city and country from the application location options
Must answer whether work sponsorship will be needed

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity program
Bonus program
Wellness allowance
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)