Kraken
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How Kraken hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
43 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
29%
Reposted roles
29%
Kraken scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 29% have gone stale and 29% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 43 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kraken (Payward, Inc.) is a global digital asset exchange and financial technology platform provider. The company offers a financial trading infrastructure supporting spot, margin, and futures trading, crypto staking, institutional custody services, OTC desk execution, and tokenized equities access across hundreds of digital assets and major fiat currencies.
News
Payward Looks to Build Financial Infrastructure Beyond Kraken Exchange
Kraken's parent company Payward is making a multibillion-dollar bet on its future as a financial infrastructure provider.
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How Kraken's Parent Company Payward Is Reshaping Global Finance Infrastructure
Payward, Kraken's parent, expands into banking, derivatives, and tokenized stocks with $2B in acquisitions and partnerships with Nasdaq and LSE.
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Payward Builds Financial Infrastructure Empire Beyond Kraken Exchange
Kraken parent Payward expands into banking, tokenized stocks and derivatives, partnering with Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange in 2026.
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Kraken's Parent Payward Drops $2 Billion on Acquisitions to Build Full Financial Stack
Payward isn't playing small. The Wyoming-based parent of Kraken has spent billions over the past two years buying up companies, cutting deals with Nasdaq and
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Kraken's parent Payward is building a financial empire that goes far beyond crypto trading
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.
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Hyperliquid Price Smashes New ATH: Can HYPE Reach $100 After Kraken Push?
Hyperliquid's price smashed its previous ATH as Hyperliquid's ecosystem expands and derivatives demand keeps momentum elevated
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New Kraken Assistant Coach Has Mastered Adaptation Seattle Kraken
Pascal Vincent spent decades learning to adapt on-the-fly in various coaching assignments, some of which afforded him less of a learning curve than others
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Seattle Kraken Name Two New Alternate Captains Ahead Of New Season
The Seattle Kraken have reshaped their leadership group, handing Vince Dunn and Brandon Montour bigger roles just as the 2026-27 season gets underway.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kraken over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
160
Postings analysed
108
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python28%
Rust20%
JavaScript17%
TypeScript14%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js17%
React Native12%
Django5%
Anthropic SDK4%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
MariaDB3%
MySQL3%
Redis2%
Cloud & platforms
Figma14%
AWS12%
Apache Kafka9%
Kubernetes9%
AI & ML
Claude16%
LLM11%
ChatGPT3%
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160 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$221k
Typical range
$166k – $517k
Open positions
26
24
Jobs
Middle
8.3%
Senior
33.3%
Staff
37.5%
Principal
4.2%
Architect
16.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $179k | $167k – $192k |
| Senior | 8 | $221k | $192k – $254k |
| Staff | 9 | $221k | $166k – $299k |
| Principal | 1 | $221k | $221k |
| Architect | 4 | $347k | $254k – $517k |
Highest paying role
Deputy General Counsel - Global Head of Derivatives and Trading Legal
$517k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Kraken
By role, level and city, against the market · 26 jobs with pay
People
Jesse Powell
Director
Kaiser Ng
Executive Officer
Stephanie Lemmerman
Executive Officer
David Ripley
Executive Officer
Arjun Sethi
Executive Officer, Director
Benjamin Gray
Executive Officer
Mayur Gupta
Executive Officer
Pranesh Anthapur
Executive Officer
Curtis Ting
Executive Officer
Nicholas Percoco
Executive Officer
Robert Moore
Executive Officer
Mark Greenberg
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
89/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
71
37 opened / 45 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
46 days
faster than 29% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
18% ▼
Backend
14%
Finance
9% ▼
Legal
9% ▲
Design
7%
Marketing
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Consensus to stack
Sep 2026
Added Superset to stack
Sep 2026
Added Plotly to stack
Sep 2026
Added Matplotlib to stack
Sep 2026
Added Reddit to stack
Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack
Sep 2026
Added Node JS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Telegram to stack
Sep 2026
New location: London
Sep 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Sep 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $254k Avg Salary
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Cheyenne
United States
Regional office
1603 Capitol Ave Suite 517B, Cheyenne, WY, 82001, US
Earlier presence
Tokyo, Japan
Jobs
≈ $115k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4D
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$127k – $254k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4D
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≈ $95k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Panama
Rust
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
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Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Rust
C++
Apache Kafka
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $42k – $82k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Move
Webpack
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Web3
Staking
Apply
$110k – $221k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Kotlin
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
State Management
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≈ $87k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Kotlin
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
State Management
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≈ $34k – $72k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Apache Kafka
Frontend
React.js
Web3
Staking
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≈ $45k – $88k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Rust
Apache Kafka
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$110k – $221k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Figma
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≈ $95k – $157k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria) • Full-Time
Figma
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
Bash
Claude
OpenAI
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenStack
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
Cybersecurity
PKI
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Financials
Total raised
$797.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4