# Senior Software Engineer – Agent Systems

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. Proof of work 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 Agent Systems team is a 0→1 engineering group building internal AI-powered agents that interact directly with company systems. The mandate is to dramatically increase internal speed of execution through automation, intelligent inference, and workflow orchestration. This team operates at the intersection of AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering. The work is pragmatic and fast-moving - prototypes are expected, but the bar for production reliability remains high. Engineers on this team move fluidly between experimentati

- **Id**: 1388232
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kraken-senior-software-engineer-agent-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-28T10:57:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T06:46:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5006
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Crypto, Real Estate, Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 963
- **Name**: Kraken
- **Domain**: kraken.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kraken>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0.143
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 127200
- **Max**: 254400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 254400

## Technologies

- **Consensus** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T11:04:58Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 43
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.787
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 254400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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