Head of Exchange Platform & Core Infrastructure

TALENTMATE; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken in Dubai seeks a Head of Exchange Infrastructure to own the stack underpinning all products—matching engine, core infrastructure, custody, algo and API engines. You will lead a team of four to five product managers and partner with an engineering manager to deliver a unified exchange platform.

This senior role requires setting the product vision, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering latency, throughput, and uptime improvements across derivatives and spot markets.

Qualifications

• Senior product leader with experience in exchange, trading, or high-performance platforms.
• Experience managing and developing product managers, on a team senior enough to run without you in the room.
• Happy to be a player-coach. This team is independent, so you will own roadmaps and write specs yourself at times, not only review them.
• Proven ability to set product vision and translate it into a long-term roadmap.
• Strong understanding of matching engine and market data architecture, and the tradeoffs low latency forces.
• Experience building platforms for internal customers, with the judgment to tell a platform from a series of bespoke builds.
• Excellent communication skills - can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A passion for crypto markets, market structure, and building the next generation of infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the exchange layer: matching engine, core infrastructure, custody, algo engine and API engine.
• Lead and grow a team of product managers, setting the bar for product craft across the layer.
• Consolidate multiple matching engines into one, starting with US derivatives, then international derivatives, then spot.
• Build interface-agnostic platforms so every product team can build on the same stack.
• Define success metrics (latency, throughput, uptime, resiliency) and enforce them across teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders to sequence migrations without disrupting live markets.
• Collaborate with Risk and Credit Infrastructure to enable a single account for all products.
• Anticipate industry shifts and shape the platform to stay ahead.
• Align cross-functional teams around the exchange strategy.

Skills

Senior product leadership

Product management

Mentoring & coaching

Roadmapping

Matching engine knowledge

Crypto markets

Platform architecture

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Kraken in Dubai seeks a Head of Exchange Infrastructure to own the stack underpinning all products—matching engine, core infrastructure, custody, algo and API engines. You will lead a team of four to five product managers and partner with an engineering manager to deliver a unified exchange platform.

This senior role requires setting the product vision, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering latency, throughput, and uptime improvements across derivatives and spot markets.