Cryptowatch is Kraken’s professional charting, trading, and market analysis platform. Join our team and help us build a chat product that our users will love. We recently released the first version of this product, but there is a lot more we want to do. Our chat will support tens of thousands of concurrent users, end-to-end encrypted messaging, and tons of special commands for trading and sharing right in the UI.

About You

• You are passionate about writing fast, efficient software in JavaScript
• You have a solid understanding of XMPP
• You value free speech, free software, and want to work on a product that will help thousands of traders connect with each other
• You are comfortable in a Linux environment and can work with scripting tools like bash
• You have worked on a team before, understand software development methodologies, and write clean, testable code.
• You have a security mindset, understand common threats, and how to avoid them
• You are a team player who values transparency and communication

Responsibilities

• Build a fully featured chat product in JavaScript + Lua (backend)
• Contribute to Converse.js and work directly with its creator
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and other team activities

A strong candidate will also have experience with

• Prosody XMPP server
• Implementing XMPP XEPs
• Docker
• PostgreSQL
• JavaScript XMPP libraries (such Strophe.js or Converse.js)
• Backbone.js