Software Engineer in Test - Core Backend

About Kraken

As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world.

As a Core Backend SDET, you will form part of a cross-functional team, where you will own and drive the automated testing effort to ensure quality of features spanning multiple services. This will allow you to gain a deep understanding of the domain and its services for which you will act as a liaison to other teams in terms of testing efforts. Your work will follow and improve on the standards, practices and frameworks of the broader QA team. Your time will be spent implementing and extending automated functional tests, monitoring suites, mocking services, as well as performing manual ad-hoc tests when needed.

Responsibilities

• Implement and extend automated functional test suite to achieve higher test coverage
• Build and manage continuous testing pipelines
• Debug, log, reproduce and document bugs encountered during testing efforts
• Learn and understand the business domain and application architecture
• Facilitate the test strategy, planning, and schedule of the product team’s development initiatives
• Ensure timely completion of test deliverables

Requirements

• Experience programming in either Rust or Python
• Prior experience implementing automated testing of distributed systems
• Practical experience in CI/CD and their pipelines
• Comfortable with command line, Docker, and Git
• Excited about getting comfortable and productive in Rust
• Familiarity with common communication protocols, particularly HTTP, SSL/TLS, TCP sockets, and WebSockets
• Interest and familiarity with financial markets and trading, particularly order types and collateral/margin trading
• Well versed with issue-tracking tools such as Bugzilla and JIRA
• Comfortable and productive working on a remote-first basis
• BS in STEM major, or equivalent professional experience developing software

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