Engineering Manager - Frontend - Krak

The role

You will lead a cross-functional Consumer pod of frontend and backend engineers. You will guide the delivery of core Krak experiences and own the end-to-end UX for key features across mobile and client platforms.

What you will do

• Lead a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers responsible for core Krak consumer experiences.
• Own the end-to-end UX for key Krak features across mobile and client platforms.
• Guide the delivery of high-quality consumer applications, with a focus on usability, performance, and scale.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and deliver high-impact features.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to maintain consistent engineering standards.
• Champion engineering excellence, maintainable architectures, and code quality.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical growth, collaboration, and inclusivity.
• Strengthen team organization and delivery using agile processes, project tracking, and engineering metrics.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering customer-facing products at scale.
• Experience managing combined frontend and backend engineering teams.
• Deep technical background in React Native with a solid understanding of modern frontend architectures.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, able to align frontend and backend efforts in a complex, multi-platform environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Empathy for the customer and a passion for building intuitive, performant consumer experiences.
• Experience building large-scale consumer or financial products.

Nice to have

• Background in systems design or distributed architectures.
• Working knowledge of Rust (or similar languages such as Go or C++), and familiarity with async architectures, APIs, and microservices.
• Experience in the payments and card domains.

Before you apply

• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.